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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.

William James

The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Basketball Dream Perseverance
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
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success

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