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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

When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Basketball Dream Perseverance
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
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
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher

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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