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The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

William James

So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
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
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Becoming Great Focus Woods
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

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