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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.

William James

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
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
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
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
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet

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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