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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.

William James

In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
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
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
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
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
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
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
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

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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