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Of course, Behaviorism "works." So does torture. Give me a no- nonsense, down-to-earth behaviorist, a few drugs, and simple electr ...
Christianity, on the other hand, is humane, practical, and, in a large sense, radical. So many years and ages of the gods those Ea ...
More luck to honest poverty,
It claims respect, and a' that;
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I must down to the seas again for the call of the running tide Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied.
Now I lay me down to sleep,
I pray the Lord my soul to keep;
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When I heard the word "stream" uttered with such a revolting primness, what I think of is urine and not the contemporary novel. An ...
I am fully sensible that an historical romance, founded on the
House of Saxe Cobourg, might be much more to the purpose of ...
Any owner of cats will know of what I speak. Cats come at dawn to sit on your bed. They may not nip your nose or inhale your breat ...
There's something wonderfully exciting about the quiet sing song of an aeroplane overhead with all the guns in creation lighting o ...
The Indian attitude toward the land was expressed by a Crow named Curly: "The soil you see is not ordinary soil--it is the dust of ...
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