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To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.

William James

New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
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
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
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
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
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
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
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
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
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self

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