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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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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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From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production…
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I have seen youths bright eyed and fair groping after bubbles in rapture, and conceiving them diamonds and the glitter of fine…
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Motherhood implies from the beginning a special openness to the new person: and this is precisely the woman's 'part'. In this openness,…
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You can practice to learn a technique, but I'm more interested in conceiving of something in the moment.
— Herbie Hancock
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Is the god the source, or is the god a human manner of conceiving of the force and energy that supports the…
— Joseph Campbell
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You love all your characters, even the ridiculous ones. You have to on some level; they're your weird creations in some kind…
— Joel Coen
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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The initial stage, the act of conceiving or inventing a theory, seems to me neither to call for logical analysis nor to…
— Karl Popper
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