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Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one

William James

Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
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
[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
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth

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