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

William James

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 total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
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
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
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
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
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism

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

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