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Page 99
... individual effort , at least on the part of those who have already made their way as investigators and inventors , the number of such individual thinkers and their lack of resources as compared with the mass facilities of the corporate ...
... individual effort , at least on the part of those who have already made their way as investigators and inventors , the number of such individual thinkers and their lack of resources as compared with the mass facilities of the corporate ...
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... individual curiosities of individual scientists . But curiosity in this sense is not only general . It is also specific . The small child shows not only the will to know but the will to know some things rather than others , the bending ...
... individual curiosities of individual scientists . But curiosity in this sense is not only general . It is also specific . The small child shows not only the will to know but the will to know some things rather than others , the bending ...
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... individual's interaction with other individuals has to be assessed , gross mis- takes are made in each interpersonal assessment ; but gain , power , and prestige are to be had by making few rather than many mis- takes , and by working ...
... individual's interaction with other individuals has to be assessed , gross mis- takes are made in each interpersonal assessment ; but gain , power , and prestige are to be had by making few rather than many mis- takes , and by working ...
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Our Twentiethcentury Vantage Point | 3 |
The Invention of Culture | 47 |
How We Come to Want What We Want | 60 |
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