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Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one

William James

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
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will

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