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So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.

William James

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
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
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
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
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion

So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.

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So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.

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