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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

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True 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
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
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
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
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
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion

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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