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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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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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When two minds of a high order, interested in kindred subjects, come together, their conversation is chiefly remarkable for the summariness of…
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A tension has always existed between the capitalist imperative to maximize efficiency at any cost and the moral imperatives of culture, which…
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We [may] answer the question: "Why is snow white?" by saying, "For the same reason that soap-suds or whipped eggs are white"-in…
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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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Though I am flattered that Governor Palin has chosen to cite me as a source of wisdom, what I said had nothing…
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I can't think of another actor who acquired stardom so quickly, who held it for such a short time, and then kept…
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This ambiguity is another example of a growing problem with mathematical notation: There aren't enough squiggles to go around.
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A much more radical conclusion . . . that, so far as I know, is shared by only a very few students…
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