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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

William James

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
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
WILLIAM JAMES

Important Realizing Teacher
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas

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