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The education of attention would be an education par excellence

William James

A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
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
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
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
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

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