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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 times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.
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The lunatic fringe wags the underdog.
— H. L. Mencken
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Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you…
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After years of having a dog, you know him. You know the meaning of his snuffs and grunts and barks. Every twitch…
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A subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship . . . . [H]is master works for…
— Ambrose Bierce
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A man may smile and bid you hail Yet wish you to the devil; But when a good dog wags his tail,…
— Jerry Smith
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The social intuitionist model offers an explanation of why moral and political arguments are so frustrating: because moral reasons are the tail…
— Jonathan Haidt
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A man running for office puts me in mind of a dog that's lost-he smells everybody he meets, and wags himself all…
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Are we witnessing an Obama 'Wag the Dog' moment with Boko Haram in Nigeria? I say yes. Consider all the scandals facing…
— Allen West
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Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate,…
— T.H. White
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Say something idiotic and nobody but a dog politely wags his tail.
— Virginia Graham
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