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Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one

William James

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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Flux Names Reflection
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
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
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
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
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
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

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