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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 perfection of rottenness.
— William James
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Although among heretics and schismatics there is the same Baptism, nevertheless, the remission of sins is not operative among them because of…
— Saint Augustine
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He reflected on the decay of mankind-the decline of the human race into folly and weakness and rottenness. 'Be a good animal,…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Patriotism is a salt against rottenness, a glorious spur to high endeavour; it recovers the half-obliterated virtue of loyalty, calls every man…
— Unknown Author
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I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble…
— Federico Garcia Lorca
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It is not the evil itself which is horrifying about our times – it is the way we not only tolerate evil,…
— George Lincoln Rockwell
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Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate farmers, liquidate real estate. It will purge the rottenness out of the system. High costs of living…
— Andrew Mellon
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The war brought things to a head, exposing the utter falsity and rottenness of Kautskyism from its very first day.
— Karl Kautsky
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If this fail, The pillar'd firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble.
— John Milton
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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
— Beatrix Potter
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Italy is the home of art and swindling; home of religion and moral rottenness
— Mark Twain
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It is not to save capitalism that we fight in Russia … It is for a revolution of our own. … If…
— Leon Degrelle
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