The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
WILLIAM JAMESThe deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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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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We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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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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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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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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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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