The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
JOHN DEWEYNothing 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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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
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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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As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
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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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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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Reflection involves not simply a sequence of ideas, but a consequence – a consecutive ordering in such a way that each determines the next as its proper outcome, while each in turn leans back on its predecessors.
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The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
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We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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I believe finally, that education must be conceived as a continuing reconstruction of experience; that the process and the goal of education are one and the same thing.
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Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.
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Insecurity cuts deeper and extends more widely than bare unemployment. Fear of loss of work, dread of the oncoming of old age, create anxiety and eat into self-respect in a way that impairs personal dignity.
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