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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

William James

With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
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
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

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