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You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.

William James

With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
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
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
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
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen

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