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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.

William James

True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May

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