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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.

William James

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
WILLIAM JAMES

Ethics Philosophical Quality
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
WILLIAM JAMES

Finals Lasts Men
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
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
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
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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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
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
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
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
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry

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