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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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Our ideals are our better selves.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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Our ideals of freedom, set forth and realized in our Constitution, are our greatest export to the world.
— Robert Byrd
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Posterity is the world to come; the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our planet, and…
— William J. Clinton
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In the spiritual life nowhere do our ideals meet the actual more truly than in how we relate to each other, in…
— Unknown Author
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It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit; divorced from it, they remain barren.
— Bertrand Russell
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We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think we ought to be, or who we think we want to be,…
— Pema Chodron
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Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.
— Joseph Joubert
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Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.
— George Bernard Shaw
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In our appetite for gossip, we tend to gobble down everything before us, only to find, too late, that it is our…
— Pico Iyer
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We do not benefit from a relationship with China or any other country in which we put our values and our ideals…
— Barack Obama
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We will continue to deepen our engagement using every element of American power - diplomacy, military, economic development, the power of our…
— Barack Obama
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Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity of the appetite, for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists…
— Samuel Ullman
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