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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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Do what's right and you'll please some of the people and astound the rest.
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When women's true history shall have been written, her part in the upbuilding of this nation will astound the world.
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Some of the young photographers today enter photography where I leave off. My "grandchildren" astound me. What I worked for they seem…
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If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.
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Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.
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When in doubt tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends.
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Of course, I'm being rude. I'm spoiling the ending, not only of the entire book, but of this particular piece of it.…
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It would probably astound each of us beyond measure to be let into his neighbors mind and to find how different the…
— William James
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Eve, I know this continues to astound and baffle you, but I actually like to socialize." "I know. If it wasn't for…
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Succeed! It has been done, and with a stupidity that can astound the most experienced.
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