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"When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?"

"It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment."

"Among other things, the Real ID Act sets minimum security criteria that states would have to meet to have their driver's licenses accepted as identification to board a commercial flight or enter federal facilities."

"The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical."

"The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection."

"Often, even after years, mental states once present in consciousness return to it with apparent spontaneity and without any act of the will; that is, they are reproduced involuntarily."
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"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."


"'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."


"One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling."


"A man's Self is the sum total of all that he can call his, not only his body and his psychic powers, but his clothes and his house."


"The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments."


"Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done."
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