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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.

William James

A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
WILLIAM JAMES

Change Dream Inspirational
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
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
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
WILLIAM JAMES

Political Volunteer War
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
[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
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
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
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science

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