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Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.

William James

The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
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
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
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality 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
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas

Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.

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