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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 genius of American culture and its integrity comes from fidelity to the light. Plain as day, we say. Happy as the…
— Richard Rodriguez
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I did a radio interview for a station in Connecticut or something, and it was the worst interview ever. It was all…
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True freedom and the end of suffering is living in such a way as if you had completely chosen whatever you feel…
— Eckhart Tolle
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Do I regret taking the company public? Yes and no. Yes, because it put us under enormous pressure for a young company…
— David Talbot
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What's the difference between yes and no?
— Laozi
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The tension between 'yes' and no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot,' makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life…
— Anatole Broyard
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To sustain love, a man and a woman must continually be marrying and divorcing, moving with, against, away from, and beyond each…
— Sam Keen
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Yes and no are very powerful words. Mean them when you say them. Respect them when you hear them.
— Michael Josephson
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We create ying and yang, yes and no, plus and minus.
— Frederick Lenz
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If an apprentice does not hear what a master hears, is then that quality not present in the music? Yes and no.…
— Robert Fripp
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Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt, And cling to faith beyond the forms of faith; She reels not at the…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Tell him to live by yes and no - yes to everything good, no to everything bad.
— William James
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