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The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.

William James

As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Basketball Dream Perseverance
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
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
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles

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