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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

William James

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
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched

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