Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves.
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Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing.Joseph Priestley
The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.
Joseph Priestley
To me there is in happiness an element of self-forgetfulness. You lose yourself in something outside yourself when you are happy just as when you are desperately miserable you are intensely conscious of yourself, are a solid little lump of ego weighing a ton.
Joseph Priestley
We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.
Joseph Priestley
Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his great works, we might see nothing very extraordinary in the process.
Joseph Priestley
What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.
Joseph Priestley
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