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To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.

John Dewey

The conception that growth and progress are just approximations to a final unchanging goal is the last infirmity of the mind in its transition from a static to a dynamic understanding of life.
JOHN DEWEY

Growth Life Mindset Philosophy Transformation Understand
The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
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Goodness Man Moral Worth
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
Thinking and feeling that have to do with action in association with others is as much a social mode of behavior as is the most overt cooperative or hostile act.
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Act Action Feeling Thinking
Hunger not to have, but to be.
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Be Yourself Inspirational One Liner
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
Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
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Growth Lie Mindset
The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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Attitude Desire Important Learning
The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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Education Philosophy
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.
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Change Direction Mindset Place Unity
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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Greatness Imagination Issue Science
The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alteration of old beliefs.
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Believe Mental Path Work
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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Achievement Success
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
JOHN DEWEY

Discover Happiness Opportunity Secure Success
I feel the gods are pretty dead, though I suppose I ought to know that however, to be somewhat more philosophical in the matter, if atheism means simply not being a theist, then of course I’m an atheist.
JOHN DEWEY

Feeling God Myself Pretty
We only think when confronted with a problem.
JOHN DEWEY

Problem Thinking

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