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The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.

William James

Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
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
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
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
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
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
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School

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