"To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness."
-John Dewey
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"Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.“
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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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