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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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Charles Sumner's mind had reached the calm of WATER which receives and reflects images without absorbing them; it contains nothing but itself.
— Henry Adams
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Poetry contains nothing haphazard.
— William Empson
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Here I shall add that the concept of change, and with it the concept of motion, as change of place, is possible…
— Immanuel Kant
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Miserable indeed is that religious teaching which calls itself Christian, and yet contains nothing of the cross.
— J C Ryle
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The present era grabs everything that was ever written in order to transform it into films, TV programs; or cartoons. What is…
— Milan Kundera
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I have been given a unique role to play on this earth: given to me by a life filled with sickness, ill-starred…
— Edvard Munch
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The whole contains nothing which is not or its advantage; and all natures indeed have this common principle, but the nature of…
— Marcus Aurelius
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The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
— Henri Bergson
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If you say that this is absurd, that we cannot be in love with everyone at once, I merely point out to…
— William James
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