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

William James

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.
WILLIAM JAMES

Finals Lasts Men
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men

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

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