The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
JOHN DEWEYIn a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.
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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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Hunger not to have, but to be.
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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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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.
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The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
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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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Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
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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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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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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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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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To me, faith means not worrying.
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