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

William James

Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
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
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
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
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way

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

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