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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

Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
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
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
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

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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