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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

William James

Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
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
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
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
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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Believe Ideas Truth
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive

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