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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.

William James

The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
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
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
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
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics

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