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

William James

You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
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
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
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
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
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
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing

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