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Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.

William James

Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
WILLIAM JAMES

Basketball Dream Perseverance
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
WILLIAM JAMES

Natural Political Politics
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
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
WILLIAM JAMES

Believe Sound Truth
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
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
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
WILLIAM JAMES

Happiness Music Philosophical
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
WILLIAM JAMES

Believe Faith Philosophical
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
WILLIAM JAMES

Attend Moments Reality
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

Happiness Laughter Men
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
WILLIAM JAMES

Becoming Great Focus Woods
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
WILLIAM JAMES

Men Philosophy Social
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
WILLIAM JAMES

Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels

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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