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The American over-tension and jerkiness and breathlessness and intensity and agony of expression are primarily social, and only secondarily physiological, phenomena.
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Unclamp, in a word, your intellectual and practical machinery, and let it run free; and the service it will do you will be twice as good.
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When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be.
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the great thing in all education is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy