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

William James

Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire

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