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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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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 gist of the matter is this: Every impression that comes in from without, be it a sentence which we hear, an…
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God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to…
— Alfred Adler
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Why is it we are always the targets of the angry Fates? Twice as many men of ours met harm as did…
— Janet Morris
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The Fates are here because of supernal anger, celestial imbalance, and arrogance of men and gods that must be curbed.
— Janet Morris
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This whole act's immutably decreed. 'Twas rehearsed by thee and me a billion years before this ocean rolled. Fool! I am the…
— Herman Melville
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Well. There was noting to be done for it. Things had happened as they did, time's arrow had yet to be reversed…
— Steve Perry
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Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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We have chosen to write the biography of our disease because we love it platonically - as Amy Lowell loved Keats -…
— Hans Zinsser
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Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that…
— William Shakespeare
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