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To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.

William James

Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
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
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
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

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