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"Every new concept first comes to the mind in a judgment."
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""Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles."
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"A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think."
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"In Braille you write your flat sign first and then your note."
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"I think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir."
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"Manage yourself first and others will take your orders."
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"I was really conscious of that when I went in because I felt that I was pretty solid on the first one, but I didn't have the groove exactly where I wanted it."
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"When you get something like MTV, it's like regular television. You get it, and at first it's novel and brand new and then you watch every channel, every show. And then you become a little more selective and more selective, until ultimately... you wind up with a radio."
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"But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions."
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"Hang 'em first, try 'em later."
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"When Seymour saw me seated at the piano at that first rehearsal, he shouted: 'What's that kid doing here? Call your piano player and let's get started.'"
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"Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing."
Chaos
"Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief; while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else."
Change
"Bad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the foundation of the practical side of logic."
Fact
"Every new concept first comes to the mind in a judgment."
First
"The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise."
Action
"The final upshot of thinking is the exercise of volition, and of this thought no longer forms a part; but belief is only a stadium of mental action, an effect upon our nature due to thought, which will influence future thinking."
Nature
"All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite."
Evolution
"A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except by determining a habit. A quality is how something may or might have been. A law is how an endless future must continue to be."
Quality
"It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last."
Envy
"It will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring what belief is most in harmony with their system."
Belief
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