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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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Public charities and benevolent associations for the gratuitous relief of every species of distress, are peculiar to Christianity; no other system of…
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I went in and said, "If I see one more gratuitous shot of a woman's body, I'm quitting . . . "…
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Government, on their part, are much disposed to favor the establishment of these large companies, and to give them privileges to the…
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All you can do is make a piece of product, sell it on its own terms, stand behind it and hope that…
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It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak,…
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A little bit of gratuitous violence in a well-thought-out story is fine.
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My moral compass swings far to the left, but when it comes to gratuitous violence, I have trouble.
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A single crocus blossom ought to be enough to convince our heart that springtime, no matter how predictable, is somehow a gift,…
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