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A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
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Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
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Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
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Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.
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Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.
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The great tragedy of science is the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
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A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that he is going to be a beginner all his life.
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Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.
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Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
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He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested when science reports what those men already know practically or instinctively, for that alone is a true humanity, or account of human experience.
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In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new borders to the closer cultivation, east of the Mississippi, of ground already marked.
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Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
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Science is the systematic classification of experience.
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That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.
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The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike, and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune. Our nervous system isn't just a fiction, it's a part of our physical body, and our soul exists in space, and is inside us, like the teeth in our mouth. It can't be forever violated with impunity.
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The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you can take a nation's pulse, you can't be sure that the nation hasn't just run up a flight of stairs.
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Today we are faced with the preeminent fact that, if civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships... the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world, at peace.
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Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
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What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world.
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''Healing,'' Papa would tell me, ''is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.''
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