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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.

William James

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
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
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
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
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise

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