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Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.

John Dewey

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
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
Wonder is the mother of all science.
JOHN DEWEY

Mom Science
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
JOHN DEWEY

Education Future Life Live Preparation
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
We only think when confronted with a problem.
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Problem Thinking
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
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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Action Change Choice Improvement Transformation
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
Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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Beginning Place Thinking World
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Education Life Preparation
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
Hunger not to have, but to be.
JOHN DEWEY

Be Yourself Inspirational One Liner
As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
JOHN DEWEY

Business Change Politics
Never let fear define who you are, and never let where you came from determine where you are going.
JOHN DEWEY

Fear Inspirational Yourself

Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.

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