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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.

William James

You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
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
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
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
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
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
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness

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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