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Holding the mind to a subject is like holding a ship to its course; it implies constant change of place combined with unity of direction.

John Dewey

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
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Failure Learning Person Success Thinking
We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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Experience Learning Philosophy Reflection
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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Education Life Preparation
A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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Inspirational Problem
The ultimate function of literature is to appreciate the world, sometimes indignantly, sometimes sorrowfully, but best of all to praise when it is luckily possible.
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Gratitude Literature Possible World
Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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Communication Wonderful
The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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Peace War Way
As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
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Business Change Politics
Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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Beginning Place Thinking World
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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Greatness Imagination Issue Science
The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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Deep Desire Emotion Feeling Human Important Nature
Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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Result Taste Thinking
In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.
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Institution Mindset People
We may lead a horse to water we cannot make him drink; and that while we can shut a man up in a penitentiary we cannot make him penitent.
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Drink Force Man Philosophy
Nothing is more tragic than failure to discover one’s true business in life, or to find that one has drifted or been forced by circumstance into an uncongenial calling.
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Business Failure Life Tragedy True
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
JOHN DEWEY

Education Future Life Live Preparation

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