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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.

William James

The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Basketball Dream Perseverance
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
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
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive

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