The very gradual character of the changes of the body also contributes to the stability of the ego, but in a much less degree than people imagine.
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Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations.
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Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view.
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Similarly, many a young man, hearing for the first time of the refraction of stellar light, has thought that doubt was cast on the whole of astronomy, whereas nothing is required but an easily effected and unimportant correction to put everything right again.
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My table is now brightly, now dimly lighted. Its temperature varies. It may receive an ink stain. One of its legs may be broken. It may be repaired, polished, and replaced part by part. But, for me, it remains the table at which I daily write.
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