Quote by John Dewey
We talk much more about individualism and liberty than our ancesto

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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Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home. – John Dewey

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Home
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The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition. – Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues

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One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. – A.A. Milne

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Even the cry from the depths is an affirmation: Why cry if there is no hint of hope of hearing? – Martin Marty

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To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death. – Jean Anouilh, Antigone, 1942

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You got to sing like you dont need the money; Love like youll never get hurt; You got to dance like nobodys watchin; Its gotta come from the heart if you want it to work. – Susanna Clark

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Baseball is an island of activity amidst a sea of statistics. – Author Unknown

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To fly from, need not be to hate, makind:
All are not fit with them to stir and toil,
Nor is it discontent to keep the mind
Deep in its fountain. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Only after the last tree has been cut down,
only after the last river has ben poisoned,
only after the last fish has been caught,
only then will you find that money cannot be eaten. – American Indian Proverb

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