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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.

John Dewey

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
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
Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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Art Communication Existence
A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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Inspirational Problem
As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
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Business Change Politics
The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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Deep Desire Emotion Feeling Human Important Nature
Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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Communication Wonderful
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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Education Life Preparation
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
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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Achievement Success
Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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Education Life Preparation
Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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Live Philosophy
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
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
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
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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Age Fear Insecurity Loss Respect
Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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Science Thinking
The conception that growth and progress are just approximations to a final unchanging goal is the last infirmity of the mind in its transition from a static to a dynamic understanding of life.
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Growth Life Mindset Philosophy Transformation Understand
Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
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Growth Lie Mindset
Wonder is the mother of all science.
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Mom Science
Hunger not to have, but to be.
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Be Yourself Inspirational One Liner
We may lead a horse to water we cannot make him drink; and that while we can shut a man up in a penitentiary we cannot make him penitent.
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Drink Force Man Philosophy
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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Believe Education Experience Myself
The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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Beyond Education End
The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
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Attachment End Science
Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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Result Taste Thinking
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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Greatness Imagination Issue Science

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