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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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From the Vedas we learn a practical art of surgery, medicine, music, house building under which mechanized art is included. They are…
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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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Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to…
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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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There comes not seldom a crisis in the life of men, of nations, and of worlds, when the old forms seem ready…
— Benjamin Cardozo
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In the 1970s we got nouvelle cuisine, in which a lot of the old rules were kicked over. And then we had…
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The old rules may say we can't protect our environment and promote economic growth at the same time, but in America, we've…
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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Joe DiMaggio batting sometimes gave the impression, the suggestion that the old rules and dimensions of baseball no longer applied to him,…
— Donald Hall
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There is no proof. There are no authorities whatever. No president, Academy, Court of Law, Congress or Senate on this earth has…
— Wilhelm Reich
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Old rules and habits have to be rejected and dismissed so that something new can be created.
— Michael Cretu
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While we believe there are fruitful opportunities to update and improve old rules, we do not want to set up a review…
— Fred Thompson
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