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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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The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It…
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Charles Babbage proposed to make an automaton chess-player which should register mechanically the number of games lost and gained in consequence of…
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And the same things look bent and straight when seen in water and out of it, and also both concave and convex,…
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When I was at school at Paris, I had special lessons from Mademoiselle Antoine, an actress at the Comedie Francaise, and I…
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For although this was a very heroic war, with a parade of every sort of high moral principle, and with the most…
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Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
— Jane Austen
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The measures adopted to restore public order are: First of all, the elimination of the so-called subversive elements. ... They were elements…
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Government is instituted to protect property of every sort; as well that which lies in the various rights of individuals, as that…
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