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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.

William James

A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
WILLIAM JAMES

Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
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
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
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
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
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual

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