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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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In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue…
— Edward de Bono
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From the Vedas we learn a practical art of surgery, medicine, music, house building under which mechanized art is included. They are…
— William James
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I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There…
— Charlize Theron
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Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combination of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined?…
— Italo Calvino
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I just signed to do my next book with Ecco Press, a new primer or encyclopedia. This will be my take on…
— Mario Batali
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
— Yogi Berra
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Engineering is not merely knowing and being knowledgeable, like a walking encyclopedia; engineering is not merely analysis; engineering is not merely the…
— Gordon S. Brown
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Jarrell was not so much a father . . . as an affectionate encyclopedia.
— Mary Von Schrader Jarrell
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