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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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A true man hates no one.
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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some…
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War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.
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In the true man there is a child concealed who wants to play.
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I felt a great dislike to journeys, especially when they were long. But once I had started, I thought nothing of them,…
— Teresa of Avila
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The doubter is a true man of science: he doubts only himself and his interpretations, but he believes in science.
— Claude Bernard
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My conclusion is that there is no reason to believe any of the dogmas of traditional theology and, further, that there is…
— Bertrand Russell
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Don`t be imitators. The mind is an imitator, because it is easier to play the game of imitation than to become authentically…
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The obligations of law and equity reach only to mankind; but kindness and beneficence should be extended to the creatures of every…
— Plutarch
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O You who are mad about Your creature! true God and true Man, You have left Yourself wholly to us, as food,…
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