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Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.

William James

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
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
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
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression

Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.

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Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.

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