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

William James

Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
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
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
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
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts

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