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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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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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If, then, you wish to insure the interest of your pupils, there is only one way to do it; and that is…
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The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving…
— Laozi
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'And for my part, Gentlemen,' said I, 'that I may put in for a share, and guess with the rest; not to…
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To write a book is for all the world like humming a song.
— Laurence Sterne
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There is nothing in the world like the first taste of beer.
— John Steinbeck
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If you're an enthusiast and you love the world like I do, it comes naturally. But I think charity must become more…
— Joanna Lumley
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Music is the language of some other state, born of memory. For what can wake the soul's strong instinct of some other…
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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There is nothing in the world like going out onto an untouched, open, virgin mountain slope drenched under a thick blanket of…
— Hans Gmoser
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Our world, like a charnel-house, is strewn with the detritus of dead epochs.
— Le Corbusier
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