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

John Dewey

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

Business Failure Life Tragedy True
A problem well put is half solved.
JOHN DEWEY

Inspirational One Liner Problem
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Act Action Feeling Thinking
Hunger not to have, but to be.
JOHN DEWEY

Be Yourself Inspirational One Liner
We only think when confronted with a problem.
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Problem Thinking
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Believe Education Experience Myself
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
To me, faith means not worrying.
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Faith Myself Worry
The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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Attitude Desire Important Learning
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
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Education Future Life Live Preparation
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
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
We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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Experience Learning Philosophy Reflection
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
Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
JOHN DEWEY

Live Philosophy
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
JOHN DEWEY

Education Life Preparation

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