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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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One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.

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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.

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By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.

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Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Philosopher

Born: October 20th, 1859

Died: June 1st, 1952

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