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We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.

William James

Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality

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