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The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.

William James

Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Basketball Dream Perseverance
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth

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