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The education of attention would be an education par excellence

William James

The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Becoming Great Focus Woods
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
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
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
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling

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