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The education of attention would be an education par excellence

William James

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
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
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
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
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
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

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