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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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Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Sin must be within God's eternal decrees in some sense in which He is not the author of it . . .…
— J. Oliver Buswell
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... The decrees of the Sovereign Ordainer, as related to fate and predestination, are of two kinds. Both are to be obeyed…
— Bahá'u'lláh
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Do not stand still disputing about your election, but set to repenting and believing. Cry to God for converting grace. Revealed things…
— Joseph Alleine
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The constitution of human nature" teaches us not to expect "that the persons, entrusted with the administration of the affairs of the…
— Alexander Hamilton
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It is our duty to look to God's commands, and not to His decrees; to our own duty, and not to His…
— Thomas Boston
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When a parliamentary or social majority decrees that it is legal, at least under certain conditions, to kill unborn human life, is…
— Pope John Paul II
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God notices every one of us; there is not a sparrow or a worm that continues to live apart from His decrees.
— Charles Spurgeon
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