Vocational Guidance: Practical Ethics for the Day's Work

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R. G. Badger, 1916 - 321 pages
 

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Page 29 - clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system. The one thing in the world, of value is the active soul. This every man is entitled to; this every man contains within him, although in almost all men obstructed, and as yet unborn.
Page 30 - teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.
Page 256 - blind to the peculiar ideality of their conditions as they certainly would also have been to the ideality of mine had they had a peep at my strange indoor academic ways of life at Cambridge." "Wherever a process of life communicates an eagerness to him who lives it, there the life becomes genuinely significant.
Page 58 - interest of the client, warm zeal in the maintenance and defense of his rights, and the exertion of his utmost learning and ability, are the higher points which can only satisfy the truly conscientious practitioner.
Page 30 - on the other side. Else to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.
Page 196 - The ultimate man will be one whose private requirements coincide with public ones. He will be that manner of man who, in spontaneously fulfilling his own nature, incidentally performs the function of a
Page 265 - Quoting Guislain, describes an extreme type of inhibition for us. "The patients are able to will interiorly, mentally, according to the dictates of reason. They may experience the desire to do something, but are powerless to act accordingly. Their will cannot go beyond certain limits, one would say that the force of action within them is blocked up; the
Page 115 - culminated in three murders, unprovoked, save by the fact that two of the victims were asserting their right to work, and another as an officer of the law was performing his duty in attempting to preserve the peace. Men who
Page 59 - Be absolutely candid with the court, do not attempt to mislead it. Remember you are one of the officers of the court whose duty it is to assist it in ascertaining the truth; it has a right to rely
Page 49 - Ordinarily the physician should not be forward to make gloomy prognostications, but should not fail on proper occasions to give timely notice of dangerous manifestations to the friends of the patient; and even

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