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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,…
• Considering the inner fitness of things, one would rather think that the very first act of a will endowed with freedom should…
• From the Vedas we learn a practical art of surgery, medicine, music, house building under which mechanized art is included. They are…
• The exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess Success is our national disease.
• There is a stream, a succession of states, or waves, or fields (or whatever you please to call them), of knowledge, of…
• Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to…
• We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully guard against…
• 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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