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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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When a general, unable to estimate the enemy's strength, allows an inferior force to engage a larger one, or hurls a weak…
— Sun Tzu
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The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.
— Confucius
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The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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Advertising is a business within a business and the man who neglects it will soon find himself with a business without a…
— Unknown Author
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Modern man lives increasingly in the future and neglects the present.
— Loren Eiseley
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The discipline of colleges and universities is in general contrived, not for the benefit of the students, but for the interest, or…
— Adam Smith
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For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason,…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful…
— William James
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If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
— Plato
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I never saw a useful Christian who was not a student of the Bible. If a man neglects his Bible, he may…
— Dwight L. Moody
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A plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm.
— Edgar Saltus
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To provide for the future is a part of one's responsibility in life; and the world has scant consideration for the man…
— Henry Latham Doherty
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