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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.

William James

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
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
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 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
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Discovery Men Mind
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
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Basketball Dream Perseverance
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
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
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
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
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
WILLIAM JAMES

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