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

John Dewey

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
Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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Communication Wonderful
The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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Beyond Education End
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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Education Life Preparation
The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
JOHN DEWEY

Deep Desire Emotion Feeling Human Important Nature
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
Hear you don’t believe I know enough to hold office. I wish you to understand that I am thinking about something or other most of the time.
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Believe Enough Myself Thinking Time Yourself
The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
JOHN DEWEY

Art Philosophy
Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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Science Thinking
Wonder is the mother of all science.
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Mom Science
Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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Result Taste Thinking
The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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Attitude Desire Important Learning
Hunger not to have, but to be.
JOHN DEWEY

Be Yourself Inspirational One Liner
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
Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
JOHN DEWEY

Live Philosophy
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
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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Greatness Imagination Issue Science
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
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Change Direction Mindset Place Unity
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Beginning Limitation Thinking
A problem well put is half solved.
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Inspirational One Liner Problem
Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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Art Communication Existence
Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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Beginning Place Thinking World
Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
JOHN DEWEY

Growth Lie Mindset
The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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Education Philosophy
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
A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
JOHN DEWEY

Inspirational Problem

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