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All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.

William James

Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
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
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
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
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
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
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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Children Effortless Reading Sky

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