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Quote by John Dewey
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite

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

Other quotes by John Dewey

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

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Adaptability
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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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Miscellaneous
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John Dewey
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Failure
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The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency – the belief that the here and now is all there is. – Allan Bloom

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Failure

The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement. – Anna Garlin Spencer

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Failure

Success is never final, but failure can be. – Bill Parcells

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Failure

Why do we capital-N Nerds love Mars so much? Because its beautiful, its tough, its buried in our mythic, childhood memories. Its covered with human triumphs but also with sad stories of failure. – Greg Bear

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Failure

Random Quotes

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever. – Mark Twain

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Humor

Why do we meditate? We meditate precisely because this world of ours has disappointed us and because failure looms large in our day-to-day life. We want fulfillment. We want joy, peace, bliss and perfection within and without. Meditation is the answer, the only answer. – Sri Chinmoy

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Meditation

Yet ah! why should they know their fate?
Since sorrow never comes too late,
And happiness too swiftly flies.
Thought would destroy their paradise.
No more; where ignorance is bliss,
Tis folly to be wise. – Thomas Gray

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Literary

If we talk about the environment, for example, we have to talk about environmental racism – about the fact that kids in South Central Los Angeles have a third of the lung capacity of kids in Santa Monica. – Danny Glover

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environmental