There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
WILLIAM JAMESThe difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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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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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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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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