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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.

William James

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
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
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
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 union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
WILLIAM JAMES

Math Passion Union

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