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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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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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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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I came to acting in a very circuitous way.
— Victoria Pratt
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God moves in extremely mysterious, not to say, circuitous ways. God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable…
— Terry Pratchett
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For it is better, with closed eyes, to follow God as our guide, than, by relying on our own prudence, to wander…
— John Calvin
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By altering his arrangements and changing his plans, the skillful general keeps the enemy without definite knowledge. By shifting his camp and…
— Sun Tzu
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There is nothing more difficult than tactical maneuvering. The difficult consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune into gain.…
— Sun Tzu
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The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional.
— Walter Savage Landor
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The genes hold culture on a leash. The leash is very long, but inevitably values will be constrained in accordance with their…
— E. O. Wilson
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Creativity works on a winding, circuitous route.
— Gail Z. Martin
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