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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."

"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself."

"To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness."
Work

"To me faith means not worrying."
Faith

"Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another."

"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."

"Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination."
Science

"Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy."

"Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving."

"No man's credit is as good as his money."

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

"Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not."

"Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes."

"The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action."

"By reading the characteristic features of any man's castles in the air you can make a shrewd guess as to his underlying desires which are frustrated."

"Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment."

"We only think when we are confronted with problems."

"Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself."

"Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live."

"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."

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