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The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.

William James

The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
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
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
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
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
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega

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