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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

William James

The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Basketball Dream Perseverance
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
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
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
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

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