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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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The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to…
— Jean Cocteau
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The gist of the matter is this: Every impression that comes in from without, be it a sentence which we hear, an…
— William James
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In childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking out. In memories of childhood, we press our nose to the pane,…
— Robert Breault
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When we are working at something, we come down from our high logical horse and sniff around with our nose to the…
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Traveling through the world produces a marvelous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within…
— Michel de Montaigne
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With a short lens I can reveal the hidden things near at hand, with a long lens the hidden things far away.…
— Andreas Feininger
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In many areas of understanding, none so much as in our understanding of God, we bump up against a simplicity so profound…
— Robert Breault
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It's because when we sneeze, our soul flies out our nose and if no one says 'bless you,' the devil can snatch…
— Kelley Armstrong
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It's just another of Robin's sayings. Like, 'Holy strawberries, Batman, we're in a jam! Or, Holy Kleenex, Batman, it was right under…
— Karen Marie Moning
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It is the familiar that usually eludes us in life. What is before our nose is what we see last.
— William Barrett
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Air pollution is something we all have to pay for through our nose.
— Vikrant Parsai
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