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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.

William James

To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
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
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows

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