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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.

William James

The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
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.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
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
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
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
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way

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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