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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.

William James

In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
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
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
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
[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 art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together

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