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The education of attention would be an education par excellence

William James

To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
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
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith

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