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Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.

John Dewey

Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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Live Philosophy
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 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 vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
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Attachment End Science
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
Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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Beginning Place Thinking World
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
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
Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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Education Life Preparation
Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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Science 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
Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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Communication Wonderful
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
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.
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Act Action Feeling Thinking
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
In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.
JOHN DEWEY

Institution Mindset People

Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.

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