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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,…
• The exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess Success is our national disease.
• We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully guard against…
• All that we need explicitly to note is that, the more the passive attention is relied on, by keeping the material interesting;…
• The gist of the matter is this: Every impression that comes in from without, be it a sentence which we hear, an…
• Considering the inner fitness of things, one would rather think that the very first act of a will endowed with freedom should…
• Science as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say what is, not what is not.
• 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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