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Page 258
... routine : late afternoon was traditionally the favored hour , in Paris , for illicit lovers ' assignations . The change of time and place by them- selves may have the quickening effect that people often seek only through a change of ...
... routine : late afternoon was traditionally the favored hour , in Paris , for illicit lovers ' assignations . The change of time and place by them- selves may have the quickening effect that people often seek only through a change of ...
Page 259
... routines would not survive if we dared to pause long enough to look at them . We shall not make the effort to control time , unless we realize how much of our work routine is not merely compulsive but obsessive : a neurotic attempt to ...
... routines would not survive if we dared to pause long enough to look at them . We shall not make the effort to control time , unless we realize how much of our work routine is not merely compulsive but obsessive : a neurotic attempt to ...
Page 279
... routine of school , office , and factory , are not . They would no longer live in their present parochial world ... routines of conventional education . But in time , their studies , their civic responsibilities , and their vocational ...
... routine of school , office , and factory , are not . They would no longer live in their present parochial world ... routines of conventional education . But in time , their studies , their civic responsibilities , and their vocational ...
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THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF | 92 |
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