Date: October 10, 1869
"Recitations alone readily degenerate into dusty repetitions, and lectures alone are too often a useless expenditure of force. The lecturer pumps laboriously into sieves. The water may be wholesome, but it runs through."
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Date: 1889
"The story is a fiction, -- the coinage of the brain, -- the book a reality."
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Date: 1906
"From the old-world point of view, the American had no mind; he had an economic thinking-machine which could work only on a fixed line. "
preview | full record— Adams, Henry (1838-1918)
Date: 1906
"The American mind exasperated the European as a buzz-saw might exasperate a pine forest."
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Date: 1911
"The crystalloid minds are all that's clear, orderly, and beautiful."
preview | full record— Lewis, Edwin Herbert (1866-1938)
Date: 1911
"The colloid minds are sticky, glutinous, and mussy."
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Date: 1911
"Sleep scatters you; sensations come storming along into the dreamer's mind, and he is a prey to each in turn."
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Date: 1911
"You are no longer the slave of those successive atoms into which sleep divides you."
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Date: 1911
"Sensations rain in on you as in a dream, but you suppress all but what are useful for your conscious purpose."
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Date: 1911
"A friend may almost literally pour out his soul into our waiting ears, or we may almost literally read it in his eyes."
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