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«So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.»
«Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves»
«The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.»
«The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
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«The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.»
Author: Maria Montessori
(Educator, Physician)
| About:
Teachers and teaching
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«Most economic fallacies derive - from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another»
«Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of an intensity such as I cannot derive from other realms.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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Art
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«Museums and art stores are also sources of pleasure and inspiration. Doubtless it will seem strange to many that the hand unaided by sight can feel action, sentiment, beauty in the cold marble; and yet it is true that I derive genuine pleasure from touching great works of art. As my finger tips trace line and curve, they discover the thought and emotion which the artist has portrayed.»
Author: Helen Keller
(Author, Educator)
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«One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation. . . We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a state of things.»
Author: Sigmund Freud
(Founder)
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«To presume that either from wealth or from kith and kin you can derive mental peace is a great error. Such peace only comes from God.»
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