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If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill.

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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
Philosopher
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Psychologist
University Teacher
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Man lives for science as well as bread.
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No more fiendish punishment could be devised, were such a thing physically possible, than that one should be turned loose in society and remain absolutely unnoticed.
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Every time a resolve or a fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing practical fruit is worse than a chance lost it works so as positively to hinder future resolutions and emotions from taking the normal path of discharge.
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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Despair lames most people, but it wakes others fully up.
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Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.
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We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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The university most worthy of rational admiration is that one in which your lonely thinker can feel himself lonely, most positively furthered, and most richly fed
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Our life is always deeper than we know, is always more divine than it seems, and hence we are able to survive degradations and despairs which otherwise must engulf us.
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