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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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Beauty awakens the soul to act.
— Dante Alighieri
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The lightning spark of thought generated in the solitary mind awakens its likeness in another mind.
— Thomas Carlyle
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He it is, the innermost one, who awakens my being with his deep hidden touches. He it is who puts his enchantment…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Nothing awakens reminiscence like an aroma.
— Victor Hugo
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Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of invention. ... [Do…
— Louis Pasteur
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Let no one hope to find in contemplation an escape from conflict, from anguish or from doubt. On the contrary, the deep…
— Thomas Merton
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In the hearts of people today there is a deep longing for peace. When the true spirit of peace is thoroughly dominant,…
— Albert Schweitzer
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The passing of the years awakens in our hearts the cry for permanence.
— F B Meyer
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Our confidence in Christ does not make us lazy, negligent, or careless, but on the contrary it awakens us, urges us on,…
— Huldrych Zwingli
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The child awakens to a universe. The mind of the child to a world of meaning. Imagination to a world of beauty.…
— Thomas Berry
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At physical death man loses his consciousness of the flesh and becomes conscious of his astral body in the astral world. Thus…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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The light of unconditional love awakens the dormant seed potentials of the soul.
— John Welwood
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