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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

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
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
WILLIAM JAMES

Educational Men Philosophy
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
WILLIAM JAMES

Country Teacher Teaching
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal

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