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Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.

William James

The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness

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