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The education of attention would be an education par excellence

William James

[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
WILLIAM JAMES

Differences Important Personality
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
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
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Die Education Philosophical
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive

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