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[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.

William James

It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
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
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
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
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness

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