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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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In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but…
— Mary McCarthy
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One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.
— George Eliot
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It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.
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The securitisation of mortgages added a new dimension of systemic risk. Financial engineers claimed they were reducing risks through geographic diversification: in…
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The moment this brilliant young producer Miss Verity Lambert started telling me about Doctor Who, I was hooked. I remember telling her,…
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Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events. Its verity is in fact an event, a process:…
— William James
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An illusion which makes me happy is worth a verity which drags me to the ground.
— Christoph Martin Wieland
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An important verity about knowledge is that the brain works most effectively with consciously retained information. We more easily remember what we…
— Benjamin Carson
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She whispered, 'C'etait la Verite?' Was that Verity? Or perhaps she just meant, Was that the truth? Was it true? Did any…
— Elizabeth Wein
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It is not birth only, nor propinquity of blood, that makes a king lawfully to reign above a people professing Christ Jesus…
— John Knox
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Motherhood is an act of creation and an enduring verity that is everlasting. Judith Land
— Judith Land
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