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As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.

John Dewey

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 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
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Age Fear Insecurity Loss Respect
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
Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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Beginning Place Thinking World
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Beginning Limitation Thinking
Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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Education Intellectual Logic
To me faith means not worrying.
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Faith Myself Worry
Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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Science Thinking
Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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Art Communication Existence
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Growth Life Mindset Philosophy Transformation Understand
Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
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Growth Lie Mindset
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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Achievement Success
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
The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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Deep Desire Emotion Feeling Human Important Nature
We only think when confronted with a problem.
JOHN DEWEY

Problem Thinking

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