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William James Quotes: Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
         

Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.


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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.



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