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I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives

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.
WILLIAM JAMES

Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
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
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
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 most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science

I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives

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