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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.

William James

Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Becoming Great Focus Woods
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky
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
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts

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