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Quote by John Dewey
Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of men

Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis. – 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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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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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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History only exists, in the final analysis, for God. – Albert Camus, The Rebel

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With our knowledge of modern-day genetics, we realize that it was possible for God to place the potential for all people throughout history into the genes of Adam and Eve when He created them. – Walter Lang

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This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men. I was very much a part of that. – John Perkins

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All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. Its scary. – Barbara Kruger

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Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. – Margaret Fuller

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Many talk like philosophers yet live like fools. – Proverb

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Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God. – Jean Anouilh

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In Australia, there is a very famous show called Home and Away. I was cast on that at 15. The day I started filming, my life changed. – Tammin Sursok

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