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To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.

William James

We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
WILLIAM JAMES

Best Effort Forget Hard Work
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
WILLIAM JAMES

Art Life Positive
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
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
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
WILLIAM JAMES

Inspirational Motivational Positive
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest

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