"Mere lack of success does not discredit a method, for there are many things that determine and perpetuate our sanctified ways of doing things besides their success in reaching their proposed ends."

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Source : James Harvey Robinson (1939). “The Mind in the Making”

James Harvey Robinson

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“Kansas is not easily impressed. It has seen houses fly and cattle soar. When funnel clouds walk through the wheat, big hail falls behind. As the biggest stones melt, turtles and mice and fish and even men can be seen frozen inside. And Kansas is not surprised. Henry York had seen things in Kansas, things he didn't think belonged in this world. Things that didn't. Kansas hadn't flinched.”
“It's a bit like the feeling I get when I'm standing on a cliff or high building, looking down at a suicidal drop. I start thinking about what would happen if I stepped off, the rush of the fall, the shattering collision, the quiet emptiness of death. Part of me wants to experience the thrill of complete surrender...”
“The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.”
“History teaches us hope.”
“[If] man creates the problem, surely man can solve it.”
“Looking for perfection is the only way to motivate yourself.”
“We say that time passes, time goes by, and time flows. Those are metaphors. We also think of time as a medium in which we exist.”
“No. Not really. A weapon didn't come to an agreement with the hand that held it.”

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