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In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.

William James

We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
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
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
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
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Becoming Great Focus Woods
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy

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