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The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.

William James

The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
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
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility

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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