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To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.

William James

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.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
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
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
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 union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
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
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
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
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
[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
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
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
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress

To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.

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