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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.

William James

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
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
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
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
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
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science

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