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The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.

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
Wonder is the mother of all science.
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Mom Science
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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Education Life Preparation
There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
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Deep Different Talk Voice World
The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
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Attachment End Science
Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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Beginning Place Thinking World
The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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Peace War Way
We only think when confronted with a problem.
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Problem Thinking
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
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
A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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Inspirational Problem
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 is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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Science Thinking
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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Achievement Success
A problem well put is half solved.
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Inspirational One Liner Problem
The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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Education Philosophy

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