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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 whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of…
— William James
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You will not persuade me with appeals to my intellectual vanity.
— Hannibal
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My glass shall not persuade me I am old, So long as youth and thou are of one date; But when in…
— William Shakespeare
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But nothing will persuade me that the mere fact of being in a place is enough in itself to justify the effort…
— Jenny Diski
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Schoolteachers seemed determined to persuade me that 'classic' is a synonym for 'narcotic'.
— Russell Baker
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When Laura Poitras asked me if she could film our encounters, I was extremely reluctant. I'm grateful that I allowed her to…
— Edward Snowden
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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
— Aristophanes
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If you wish to persuade me, you must think my thoughts, feel my feelings, and speak my words.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Only the deepest love will persuade me into matrimony, which is why I shall end up an old maid.
— Elizabeth Bennett
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John Foster Dulles had called on me in his capacity as Secretary of State, and he had exhausted every argument to persuade…
— Norodom Sihanouk
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But whether there's some grand design really matters little to me. My only hope was this. To see what could be, and…
— Orson Scott Card
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Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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