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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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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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The exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess Success is our national disease.
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There is a stream, a succession of states, or waves, or fields (or whatever you please to call them), of knowledge, of…
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Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to…
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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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If, then, you wish to insure the interest of your pupils, there is only one way to do it; and that is…
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It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator…
— Aristotle
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The state machine, including the army, the police and the courts, is the instrument with which one class oppresses another. It is…
— Mao Zedong
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It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in…
— Camille Claudel
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You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between them are…
— Hans Bender
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Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.
— Mortimer Adler
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I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own…
— Julia Child
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Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can…
— Horace Mann
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Public charities and benevolent associations for the gratuitous relief of every species of distress, are peculiar to Christianity; no other system of…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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