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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

William James

The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
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
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
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
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

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