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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions. Monkeys redden from passion but it would take an overwhelming amount…
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Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
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Some few, & I am one, even wish to God, though at the loss of millions of lives, that the North would…
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If worms have the power of acquiring some notion, however rude, of the shape of an object and over their burrows, as…
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So in regard to mental qualities, their transmission is manifest in our dogs, horses and other domestic animals. Besides special tastes and…
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The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great degree on the number of field-mice, which destroy their combs and…
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It is not the conscience which raises a blush, for a man may sincerely regret some slight fault committed in solitude, or…
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It is well-known that those who have charge of young infants, that it is difficult to feel sure when certain movements about…
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Jealousy was plainly exhibited when I fondled a large doll, and when I weighed his infant sister, he being then 15? months…
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May we not suspect that the vague but very real fears of children, which are quite independent of experience, are the inherited…
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The young blush much more freely than the old but not during infancy, which is remarkable, as we know that infants at…
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Why does man regret, even though he may endeavour to banish any such regret, that he has followed the one natural impulse,…
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It is certain that there may be extraordinary mental activity with an extremely small absolute mass of nervous matter: thus the wonderfully…
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The future seems a little gloomy! Go to bed early, sleep well, eat moderately at breakfast; the future looks brighter. The world's…
— Arthur Lynch
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How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights…
— Frances Wright
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"I am not much of a mathematician," said the cigarette, "but I can add to a man's nervous troubles, I can subtract…
— David Starr Jordan
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And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't external, how astonishing the mediums…
— James Merrill
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I myself, a professional mathematician, on re-reading my own work find it strains my mental powers to recall to mind from the…
— Johannes Kepler
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I'm the beacon of hope, and I have mental powers you never dreamed of. Now be quiet.
— David Klass
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Our youth must be steadfast and take advantage of the benefits of modern civilization. Do not fall prey to idleness for it…
— Haile Selassie
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This is peculiarly an age in which each of us may, if he do but search diligently, find the literature suited to…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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We don’t constrain our mental powers when we store new long-term memories. We strengthen them. With each expansion of our memory comes…
— Nicholas G. Carr
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I tried to will them with my super mental powers so he’d put them around my waist, but apparently I had no…
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