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- We [may] answer the question: "Why is snow white?" by saying, "For the same reason that soap-suds or whipped eggs are white"-in other words, instead…
- The same is true of Love, and the instinctive desire to please those whom we love. The teacher who succeeds in getting herself loved by…
- The self-same atoms which, chaotically dispersed, made the nebula, now, jammed and temporarily caught in peculiar positions, form our brains; and the 'evolution' of brains,…
- When a superior intellect and a psychopathic temperament coalesce in the same individual, we have the best possible condition for the kind of effective genius…
- You can be an artist without visual images, a reader without eyes, a mass of erudition with a bad elementary memory. In almost any subject…
- If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them…
- Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
- But it is the bane of psychology to suppose that where results are similar, processes must be the same. Psychologists are too apt to reason…
- Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
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