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

William James

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
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Becoming Great Focus Woods
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
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
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical

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