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A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.

William James

To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
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
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky
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
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated

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