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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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Serious development of the personality begins at the closet door.
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As a teenager, I had to struggle alone to learn about myself and what it meant to be gay. Now for [48]…
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If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door.
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The closet door is open for me, where I left it, since I left it open, it has graciously stayed open.
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I tore open the closet door and began feverishly sorting through the shirts piled on the floor in the vain hope that…
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for the first time in my life i realize why hangers are called hangers, because after fifteen minutes of trying things on…
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Shifting in the hospital bed had blown her closet door wide open.
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At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want,…
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This feeling is not unlike the sinking in one's stomach when one is in an elevator that suddenly goes down, or when…
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But what struck me was the book-madness of the place--books lay scattered across the unmade bed and the top of a battered-looking…
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