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“Every theory of love, from Plato down teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.”

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Daily contact with some teachers is itself all-sided ethical education for the child without a spoken precept. Here, too, the real advantage of male over female teachers,especially for boys, is seen in their superior physical strength,which often, if highly estimated, gives real dignity and commands real respect, and especially in the unquestionably greater uniformity of their moods and their discipline.

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Adolescence is when the very worst and best impulses in the human soul struggle against each other for possession.

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.. every step of the upward way is strewn with wreckage of body, mind, and morals.

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Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children.

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Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.

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Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a…

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Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.

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Normal children often pass through stages of passionate cruelty, laziness, lying and thievery.

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This splendid subject [mathematics], queen of all exact sciences, and the ideal and norm of all careful thinking...

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Being an only child is a disease in itself.

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Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea.

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The teens are emotionally unstable and pathic. It is a natural impulse to experience hot and perfervid psychic states, and it is characterized by…

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Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul will be consigned to eternal torment in the never-ending subterranean barbecue if you fail to follow the whacky edicts of one particular set of puckered dogwhistles or another. You may recall from the great movie Strange…

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In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures showing that when the official U.S. measure of poverty was developed in 1963, a poor American family had an income twenty-nine times greater than the average per capita income in the rest of the world. An individual American…

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Nations, like individuals, interest us in their growth.

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[Sport officials] blocked their support of us. But those individuals [ Muhammad Ali, the Jim Browns, the Bill Russells, Kareem Abdul Jabbar ] were…

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Popular culture as a whole is popular, but in today's fragmented market it's a jostle of competing unpopular popular cultures. As the critic Stanley Crouch likes to say, if you make a movie and 10 million people go see it, you'll gross $100 million - and 96 per cent of the population won't have to be involved. That alone should…

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The State must act as the guardian of a millennial future in the face of which the wishes and the selfishness of the individual…

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If it comes to a question of law, the charges they brought against me - the Espionage Act - is called the quintessential political crime. A political crime, in legal terms, is defined as any crime against a state, as opposed to against an individual. Assassination, for example, is not a political crime because you've killed a person, an individual,…

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