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I take it that no man is educated who has never dallied with the thought of suicide.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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To know psychology, therefore, is absolutely no guarantee that we shall be good teacher.
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There is a stream, a succession of states, or waves, or fields (or whatever you please to call them), of knowledge, of…
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Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to…
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No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to forget.
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Habit is second nature, or rather . . . ten times nature.
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We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully guard against…
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It is astonishing how many mental operations we can explain when we have once grasped the principles of association
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The entire routine of our memorized acquisitions is a consequence of nothing but the Law of Contiguity. The words of a poem,…
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Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already exists. The…
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An idea will infect another with its own emotional interest when they have become both associated together into any sort of a…
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And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that…
— Isaac Asimov
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Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is…
— Francis Bacon
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Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.
— Carl von Clausewitz
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For this game you need, above all things, to be in a tranquil frame of mind.
— Harry Vardon
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Let us serve Him faithfully as our Master. Let us obey Him loyally as our King. Let us study His teachings as…
— J C Ryle
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Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.
— Andrew Jackson
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It makes him hated above all things, as I have said, to be rapacious, and to be a violator of the property…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples; if it be unfamiliar, make it figure as part of…
— William James
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Lastly, do I vow, that mine eyes desire you above all things.
— Catherine of Aragon
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Freedom is a very great reality, but it means above all things, freedom from lies.
— D. H. Lawrence
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Among many other weighty objections to the Measure, it has been suggested, that it has a tendency to introduce religious disputes into…
— George Washington
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Cast out envy; you can have all that you want, and you need not envy any man what he has. Above all…
— Wallace D. Wattles
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