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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.

William James

A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
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 deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
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 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
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth

I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.

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