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Insight into soul-action, ability to discriminate the genuine from the sham and capacity to further one and discourage the other.
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There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and…
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Without initiation into the scientific spirit one is not in possession of the best tools humanity has so far devised for effectively…
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The Professor took the old practices and studied them, worked out their mechanical principles and then devised a graded scientific set of…
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We have three approaches at our disposal: the observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation serves to assemble the data, reflection to…
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The future of our civilisation depends upon the widening spread and deepening hold of the scientific habit of mind.
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Unless our laboratory results are to give us artificialities, mere scientific curiosities, they must be subjected to interpretation by gradual re-approximation to…
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The bad man is the man who no matter how good he has been is beginning to deteriorate, to grow less good.…
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To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen…
— Jane Austen
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The entire routine of our memorized acquisitions is a consequence of nothing but the Law of Contiguity. The words of a poem,…
— William James
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We are unreasonably desirous to separate the goods of life from those evils which Providence has connected with them, and to catch…
— Samuel Johnson
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In the company of friends, writers can discuss their books, economists the state of the economy, lawyers their latest cases, and businessmen…
— Alfred Adler
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It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one,…
— John Cage
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The reason is that nature has so created men that they are able to desire everything but are not able to attain…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for thinking about…
— Lev S. Vygotsky
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The true aim of our Christian life consists in the acquisition of the Holy Spirit of God. As for fasts, and vigils,…
— Seraphim of Sarov
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