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Hunger not to have, but to be.

John Dewey

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
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
Hunger not to have, but to be.
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Be Yourself Inspirational One Liner
We only think when confronted with a problem.
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Problem Thinking
Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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Science Thinking
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
The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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Deep Desire Emotion Feeling Human Important Nature
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.
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Believe Mental Path Work
The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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Peace War Way
The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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Education Philosophy
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
To me faith means not worrying.
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Faith Myself Worry
If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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Children Education Teaching
Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
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Growth Lie Mindset
Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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Live 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
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
Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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Education Intellectual Logic
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
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
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
We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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Experience Learning Philosophy Reflection
Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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Beginning Place Thinking World
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
I believe that the school must represent life – life as real and vital to the child as that which he carries on in the home, in the neighborhood, or on the playground.
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Believe Children Home Life Myself Play Reality
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

Hunger not to have, but to be.

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