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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

No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
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
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
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
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching

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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