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It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

William James

You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
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
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy

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