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"This growth in the number, speed of formation, permanence, delicacy and complexity of associations possible for an animal reaches its acme in the case of man."
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"In order to grasp the principles of spiritual growth, you need to be filled with understanding and the wisdom of God."

"The size of the seed does not determine the size of the tree."

"Man will always waste time if there is no system to check and compel him to invest his time."

"One who conquers others is great, one who conquers the world is mighty, but one who conquers himself is divine."

"In one opinion, the house in which you stay, the church you attend and the town in which you reside may not determine the size of your dreams, but they can influence the rate of maturity of what you have planted."

"Greatness can only be attained through time conversion."

"Correction is the tool for creating better from worse. Make the best use of it!"
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"The real difference between a man's scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge."

"The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the unusual and marvelous."

"Amongst the minds of animals that of man leads, not as a demigod from another planet, but as a king from the same race."

"It will, of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the sciences of human nature will contribute to our success in controlling human nature and changing it to the advantage of the common weal."

"For origin and development of human faculty we must look to these processes of association in lower animals."

"When, instead of merely associating some act with some situation in the animal way, we think the situation out, we have a set of particular feelings of its elements."

"Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods."

"Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology."
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