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Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.

William James

The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Die Education 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
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School

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