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Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.

William James

Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Becoming Great Focus Woods
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
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
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
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
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
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
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational

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