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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.

William James

Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
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
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
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
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher

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