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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.

John Dewey

Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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Education Intellectual Logic
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
In object lessons in elementary education and in laboratory instruction in higher education, the subject is often so treated that the student fails to see the forest on account of the trees.
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Education Failure Tree
The two limits of every unit of thinking are a perplexed, troubled, or confused situation at the beginning, and a cleared up, unified, resolved situation at the close.
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Beginning Limitation Thinking
Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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Beginning Place Thinking World
The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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Education Philosophy
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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Eyes Learning Nature Result Thinking
The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
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Attachment End Science
The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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Deep Desire Emotion Feeling Human Important Nature
Never let fear define who you are, and never let where you came from determine where you are going.
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Fear Inspirational Yourself
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
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
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Discover Happiness Opportunity Secure Success
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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Action Change Choice Improvement Transformation
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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Ideas Reflection Result Simplicity
To me faith means not worrying.
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Faith Myself Worry
Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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Live 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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