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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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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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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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There is a lesson we learn early and harmlessly, or late and traumatically - that there are things we can break that…
— Robert Breault
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There are unidentified flying objects. That is, there are a hard core of cases-perhaps 20 to 30 percent in different studies-for which…
— Margaret Mead
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Regarding mutual tolerance: It is negative in one sense, but positive in another. It absolutely forbids us to be forward in pronouncing…
— William James
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IF YOUR OPPONENT strikes with fire, counter with water, becoming completely fluid and free-flowing. Water, by its nature, never collides with or…
— Morihei Ueshiba
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An ecovillage is a human scale, full-featured settlement which integrates human activities harmlessly into the natural environment, supports healthy development and can…
— Robert Gilman
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The reproach that superficial people formulate against Manet, that whereas once he painted ugliness, now he paints vulgarity, falls harmlessly to the…
— Stephane Mallarme
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It is so hard to learn to put sadness in perspective so hard to understand that it is a feeling that comes…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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