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The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

William James

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
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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Intellectual Men Order
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
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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Destiny Men Tree
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
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
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
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
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
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No

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