The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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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
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.
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We naturally associate democracy, to be sure, with freedom of action, but freedom of action without freed capacity of thought behind it is only chaos.
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The end justifies the means only when the means used are such as actually bring about the desired and desirable end.
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Education is a regulation of the process of coming to share in the social consciousness and that the adjustment of individual activity on the basis of this social consciousness is the only sure method of social reconstruction.
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Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.
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