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Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.

William James

Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
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
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
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
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits

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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