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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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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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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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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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Science as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say what is, not what is not.
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When two minds of a high order, interested in kindred subjects, come together, their conversation is chiefly remarkable for the summariness of…
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The establishment of our new Government seemed to be the last great experiment for promoting human happiness by reasonable compact in civil…
— George Washington
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In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered…
— Ulrich Beck
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Consciousness... does not appear to itself chopped up in bits. Such words as 'chain' or 'train' do not describe it fitly as…
— William James
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I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
— Hippocrates
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The end and aim of spying in all its five varieties is knowledge of the enemy; and this knowledge can only be…
— Sun Tzu
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By brain is meant, in the first instance, something more than the pink-grey jelly of the anatomist. It is, even to a…
— William Grey Walter
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To improve at chess you should in the first instance study the endgame.
— Jose Raul Capablanca
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The government are very keen on amassing statistics. They collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube…
— Josiah Stamp
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