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The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.

William James

We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
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
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
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
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
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
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy

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