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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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One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
— Edward Abbey
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Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.
— Jacob Bronowski
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To the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sun is really a sun; to the humble man, and to…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Man is not the most majestic of the creatures; long before the mammals even, the dinosaurs were far more splendid. But he…
— Jacob Bronowski
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The meaning that we are seeking in evolution is its meaning to us, to man. The ethics of evolution must be human…
— George Gaylord Simpson
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One man and a dozen fools would govern better than one man alone.
— Ben Chifley
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One constant in a world of variables - a man alone in the evening in his patch of vegetables. and all the…
— Unknown Author
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All that is limited by form, semblance, sound, color is called object. Among them all, man alone is more than an object.…
— Zhuangzi
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My definition of Man is, a Cooking Animal. The beasts have memory, judgement, and all the faculties and passions of our mind,…
— James Boswell
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Doomed Lord's Passing. For the mind of man alone is free to explore the lofty vastness of the cosmic infinite, to transcend…
— Michael Moorcock
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Full of love for all things in the world, practicing virtue, in order to benefit others, this man alone is happy.
— Gautama Buddha
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What is man's greatest bane? His brother man alone.
— Bias of Priene
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