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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.

William James

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
WILLIAM JAMES

Hate Inspirational Life
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
WILLIAM JAMES

Anything Dream Everything May
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
WILLIAM JAMES

Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
WILLIAM JAMES

Pay Quality Supreme

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