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So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.

William James

That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
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
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility

So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.

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