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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,…
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The exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess Success is our national disease.
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We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully guard against…
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The most natively interesting object to a man is his own personal self and its fortunes. We accordingly see that the moment…
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All that we need explicitly to note is that, the more the passive attention is relied on, by keeping the material interesting;…
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The gist of the matter is this: Every impression that comes in from without, be it a sentence which we hear, an…
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Considering the inner fitness of things, one would rather think that the very first act of a will endowed with freedom should…
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Science as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say what is, not what is not.
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In the game of cricket it has always been customary to accord more adulation to batsman than to bowlers.
— Ian Peebles
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I believe that it is possible for one to praise, without concern, any man after he is dead since every reason and…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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To criticize one's country is to do it a service.... Criticism, in short, is more than a right; it is an act…
— J. William Fulbright
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It appears to me that those who rely simply on the weight of authority to prove any assertion, without searching out the…
— Vincenzo Galilei
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A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of…
— Fawn M. Brodie
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The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way…
— Lord Byron
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Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for…
— William James
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