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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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From the Vedas we learn a practical art of surgery, medicine, music, house building under which mechanized art is included. They are…
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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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Does not a misplaced optimism exist, common to all mankind, leading on to false conviction that social engagements, if dated sufficiently far…
— E. M. Delafield
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When you authorised Congress to borrow money, and to contract debts, for carrying on the late war, you could not intend to…
— Unknown Author
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There is not a more important and fundamental principle in legislation, than that the ways and means ought always to face the…
— James Madison
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My ardent desire is, and my aim has been . . . to comply strictly with all our engagements foreign and domestic;…
— George Washington
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My policy has been, and will continue to be, while I have the honor to remain in the administration of the government,…
— George Washington
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Yes, after some time spent last year on other commitments, most of them speaking engagements, I am now about halfway through a…
— Robert MacNeil
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Sometimes we see the Civil War in movies and imagine these neatly aligned rows of men with muskets, walking in line to…
— Seth Grahame-Smith
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After two and a half engagements, of course I want to get married and have babies, so I am going to freeze…
— Sophie Monk
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