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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

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
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
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 mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
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

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