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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

William James

Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
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
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
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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Children Effortless Reading Sky
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
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

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

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