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We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

William James

Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

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