We only think when we are confronted with problems.
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One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.John Dewey
Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheep like passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.
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Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril.
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The outstanding problem of the Public is discovery and identification of itself
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Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.
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