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Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential poin

Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment. – John Dewey

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We talk much more about individualism and liberty than our ancestors. But as so often happens, when anything becomes conscious, the consciousness is compensatory for absence in practice. – John Dewey

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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning. – John Dewey

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If you live in the river you should make friends with the crocodile. – Proverb

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We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided. – Alexander Hamilton

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