Quote by John Dewey
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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The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs. – John Dewey

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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. – John Dewey

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A person who is trained to consider his actions, to undertake them deliberately, is in so far forth disciplined. Add to this ability a power to endure in an intelligently chosen course in the face of distraction, confusion, and difficulty, and you have the essence of discipline. – John Dewey

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They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils. – Francis Bacon

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Take the world as it is, not as it ought to be. – Proverb

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By taking things personally, you set yourself up to suffer. The impact on you and the ripple effects on those around you are unhealthy. – Suzanne Mayo Frindt

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They are as much for Mars, as for Mercury; as well qualified for war, as for business. – Source Unknown

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Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. – Oscar Wilde

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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I cannot forgive. – Henry Ward Beecher

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The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal – that you can gather votes like box tops – is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process. – Adlai E. Stevenson

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I’m not anti-social. I’m pro-solitude. – Author Unknown

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