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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.

William James

One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Discovery Men Mind
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
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 lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
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
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
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
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
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
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
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth

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