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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task

William James

True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
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
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence

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