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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.

William James

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
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
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
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
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere

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