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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.

William James

Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
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
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
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
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
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
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
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching

For the moment, what we attend to is reality.

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