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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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Historically whoever advocates truth always suffers. I am just a fighter for the truth. Our truths are universal
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As we live our truths, we will communicate across all barriers, speaking for the sources of peace. Peace that is not lack…
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To love ourselves is to act respectfully toward ourselves, to enjoy our own company when in solitude, to honor our limits and…
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We can say what we need to say. We can gently, but assertively, speak our mind. We do not need to be…
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The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.
— William James
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Thoroughly unprepared, we take the step into the afternoon of life. Worse still, we take this step with the false presupposition that…
— Carl Jung
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No, Paul, I couldn't care less if you tell me made-up stories. Our lies reveal as much about us as our truths.'…
— J M Coetzee
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Our lies reveal as much about us as our truths
— J M Coetzee
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