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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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So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as…
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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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WE DIE. You will never hear those words spoken in a television ad. Yet this central fact of human existence colors our…
— Christopher Locke
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There is the physical world that we live in, which we perceive through the senses, but there are other worlds. Right in…
— Frederick Lenz
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We must believe then, that as from hence we see Saturn and Jupiter; if we were in either of the Two, we…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for…
— Albert Camus
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Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements…
— John Playfair
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We put limitations on the way that we think about things, on ourselves, think about all the boxes we live in, male…
— Brit Marling
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Each of us is great insofar as we perceive and act on the infinite possibilities which lie undiscovered and unrecognized about us.
— James Harvey Robinson
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