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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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Yes, war is hell. It is awful. It involves human beings killing other human beings, sometimes innocent civilians. That is why we…
— John O. Brennan
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If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
— Noam Chomsky
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We despise no source that can pay us a pleasing attention.
— Mark Twain
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That a person cannot and consequently will not defend himself, does not yet cast disgrace upon him in our eyes ; but…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Discipline is something we despise for the moment.... We all look for a place to run, an excuse with which to stall.…
— Charles Stanley
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Few of us have the necessary unselfishness to hear with gladness the talents of others extolled or to listen with patience to…
— D.E. Stevenson
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All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise.
— Cleopatra
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Because the road is rough and long, Should we despise the skylark's song?
— Anne Bronte
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We cannot hate those who we despise.
— Eric Hoffer
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We rightly scorn those who have no made use of their defects, who have not exploited their deficiencies, and have not been…
— Emile M. Cioran
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We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet,…
— Mark Twain
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We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save…
— William James
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