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All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.

William James

We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
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
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
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
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
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

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