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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.

William James

Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
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
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
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

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