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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

William James

The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
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
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
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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