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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides

William James

[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
WILLIAM JAMES

Differences Important Personality
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
WILLIAM JAMES

Attention Education Excellence
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
WILLIAM JAMES

Opposites Statement Truth
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
WILLIAM JAMES

Educational Philosophy School
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
WILLIAM JAMES

Action Emotional Feelings

To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides

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