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«Men's activities are occupied into ways -- in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
grapple, grappling, topsy-turvy, Topsy
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