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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

William James

Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship

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