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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.

William James

For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
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
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
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
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Discovery Men Mind
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

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