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The education of attention would be an education par excellence

William James

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
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
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
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
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
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
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
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

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