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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

The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
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Attachment End Science
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
Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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Live Philosophy
Hunger not to have, but to be.
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Be Yourself Inspirational One Liner
The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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Attitude Desire Important Learning
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
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
A problem well put is half solved.
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Inspirational One Liner Problem
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
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
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
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
Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.
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Eyes Learning Nature Result Thinking
A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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Inspirational Problem
To me, faith means not worrying.
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Faith Myself Worry
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

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.

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