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The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time

William James

Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain

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