John Dewey

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"There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience to another, especially if it be somewhat complicated, and you will find your own attitude toward your experience changing."	Attitude, Change, Experience
"Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of the imagination."	Excellence, Imagination
"Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes."	Failure, Learning, Quitting
"Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming where everyone is interdependent."	Knowledge, Wisdom
"Intellectually, religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves to the current view of the world and consecrate it."	Creativity, Intelligence, Religion
"The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better."	Evil, Men
"Anyone who has begun to think places some portion of the world in jeopardy."	Guns

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