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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.

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 greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
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
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
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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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
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 deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use

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