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New habits can be launched.

William James

But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
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
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
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
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties

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