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"The more the schemata are differentiated, the smaller the gap between the new and the familiar becomes, so that novelty, instead of constituting an annoyance avoided by the subject, becomes a problem and invites searching."
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"Adapt yourself to the needs of the people."
"Admittedly, there will be times when you must interact on a superficial level and adjust your behavior to fit in, go along and get along."
"The Republicans learned well from Bill Clinton."
"Unheard-of combinations of circumstances demand unheard-of rules."
"If you don't stay relevant you will be relegated."
"The cactus thrives in the desert while the fern thrives in the wetland.The fool will try to plant them in the same flowerbox.The florist will sigh and add a wall divider and proper soil to both sides.The grandparent will move the flowerbox halfway out of the sun.The child will turn it around properly so that the fern is in the shade, and not the cactus.The moral of the story?Kids are smart."
"There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself meeting them."
"THE SEASONS REMIND ME THAT I MUST KEEP CHANGING."
"They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses... we engaged a spy."
"If you accept the situation, you will find strength for strategic adaptation."
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"Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher."
"The self thus becomes aware of itself, at least in its practical action, and discovers itself as a cause among other causes and as an object subject to the same laws as other objects."
"In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact."
"This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge."
"From this time on, the universe is built up into an aggregate of permanent objects connected by causal relations that are independent of the subject and are placed in objective space and time."
"The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly."
"To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active."
"During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only with his own actions."
"Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions."
"Logical positivists have never taken psychology into account in their epistemology, but they affirm that logical beings and mathematical beings are nothing but linguistic structures."
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