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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.

William James

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
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
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

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