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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.

William James

The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
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
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
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
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
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
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
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
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Becoming Great Focus Woods
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire

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