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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.

William James

All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
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
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
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
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
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
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
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
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind

Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.

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