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We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.

William James

The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
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
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
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
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
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
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
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
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two

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