"Investment philosophy is the clear understanding that by owning shares of stocks he owns businesses, not pieces of paper."
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"Auguries of innocence "The emmet's inch and eagle's mile Make lame philosophy to smile. He who doubts from what he sees Will ne'er believe, do what you please."
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"The night can sweat with terror as before We pieced our thoughts into philosophy, And planned to bring the world under a rule, Who are but weasels fighting in a hole."
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"It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed at once logical and boundless."
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"An educated memory depends on an organized system of associations; and its goodness depends on two of their peculiarities: first, on the persistency of the associations; and, second, on their number."
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"The art of remembering is the art of thinking. When we wish to fix a new thing in either our own mind or a pupil's, our conscious effort should not be so much to impress and retain it as to connect it with something else already there. The connecting is the thinking; and, if we attend clearly to the connection, the connected thing will certainly be likely to remain within recall."
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"If, then, you wish to insure the interest of your pupils, there is only one way to do it; and that is to make certain that they have something in their minds to attend with, when you begin to talk. That something can consist in nothing but a previous lot of ideas already interesting in themselves, and of such a nature that the incoming novel objects which you present can dovetail into them and form with them some kind of a logically associated or systematic whole."
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"Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation. There is in the living act of perception always something that glimmers and twinkles and will not be caught, and for which reflection comes too late."
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"To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind."
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"Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation."
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"The most natively interesting object to a man is his own personal self and its fortunes. We accordingly see that the moment a thing becomes connected with the fortunes of the self, it forthwith becomes an interesting thing."
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"But when all is said and done, the fact remains that some teachers have a naturally inspiring presence and can make their exercises interesting, whilst others simply cannot. And psychology and general pedagogy here confess their failure, and hand things over to the deeper spring of human personality to conduct the task."
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"The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change."
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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 mental total."
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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 God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world."
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"The philosophy which is so important in each of us is not a technical matter; it is our more or less dumb sense of what life honestly and deeply means. It is only partly got from books; it is our individual way of just seeing and feeling the total push and pressure of the cosmos."
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"From all these facts there emerges a very simple abstract program for the teacher to follow in keeping the attention of the child: Begin with the line of his native interests, and offer him objects that have some immediate connection with these."
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"Volition . . . takes place only when there are a number of conflicting systems of ideas, and depends on our having a complex field of consciousness."
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"In all this process of acquiring conceptions, a certain instinctive order is followed. There is a native tendency to assimilate certain kinds of conception at one age, and other kinds of conception at a later age."
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