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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.

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
A problem well put is half solved.
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Inspirational One Liner Problem
Hunger not to have, but to be.
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Be Yourself Inspirational One Liner
The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
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Attachment End Science
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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Achievement Success
Wonder is the mother of all science.
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Mom Science
Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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Education Life Preparation
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
Never let fear define who you are, and never let where you came from determine where you are going.
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Fear Inspirational Yourself
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
Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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Result Taste Thinking
Hear you don’t believe I know enough to hold office. I wish you to understand that I am thinking about something or other most of the time.
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Believe Enough Myself Thinking Time Yourself
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 self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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Action Change Choice Improvement Transformation
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

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