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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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To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.
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When I write about "realizations," I am describing a state in which a practitioner has wisdom of who she or he is,…
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Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step…
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The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
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We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates…
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No civilisation can grow unless fanatics, bloodshed, and brutality stop. No civilisation can begin to lift up its head until we look…
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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…
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Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires trust on…
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