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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

William James

Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
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
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
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
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
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking

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