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To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness. – 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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John Dewey
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Genuine ignorance is… profitable because it is likely to be accompanied by humility, curiosity, and open mindedness; whereas ability to repeat catch-phrases, cant terms, familiar propositions, gives the conceit of learning and coats the mind with varnish waterproof to new ideas. – John Dewey

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Ignorance
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Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit. – John Grierson

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Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other peoples happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race. – Bertrand Russell

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Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky yet I know you exist and are no futile dream. – Rosalia de Castro

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The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion. – Karl Marx

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Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche. – Andrew Denton

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I love movies that make me cry, because theyre tapping into a real emotion in me, and I always think afterwards: how did they do that? – John Lasseter

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Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success. – Bo Bennett

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