Our specious present as such is very short. We do, however, experience passing events; part of the process of the passage of events is directly there in our experience, including some of the past and some of the future.

George Herbert Mead
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  1. To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation.

  2. The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self.

  3. Social psychology is especially interested in the effect which the social group has in the determination of the experience and conduct of the individual member.

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  5. Society is unity in diversity.

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