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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

Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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Result Taste Thinking
Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
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Growth Lie Mindset
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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Education Life Preparation
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
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 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
Wonder is the mother of all science.
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Mom Science
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.
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Change Direction Mindset Place Unity
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
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
The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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Beyond Education End
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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Greatness Imagination Issue Science
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
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
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

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