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Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.

William James

We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
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
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
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
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Believe Government Philosophical
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order

Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.

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