Word: thinking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...disarmament proposal was "a pure propaganda maneuver," then it is apparently too bad we did not think of it first. It may be worse than just too bad, if we, as you have done, attempt to sneer at it or to laugh it off as impractical...
...will find deduction given importance in How to Think...
...October 19, 1929, I heard John Dewey say in New York, "...one of the conditions of happiness is the opportunity of a calling, a career which somehow is congenial to one's own temperament. I have had the sheer luck or fortune to be engaged in the occupation of thinking; and while I am quite regular at my meals, I think that I may say that I would rather work, and perhaps even more, play, with ideas and with thinking than eat. That chance has been given...
...your books you emphasize action. Don't you think that mysticism is sometimes very important? Has not some of the best good been given to the world by some mystics like Christ, Plato, Emerson, and certain oriental philosophers...
...different. Dudley tapped the shoulder of a fellow who was dancing with a rather attractive girl, the type you like to dance with but still you don't get cut in on right away. The dancing came rather naturally, in fact it was fun, but Dudley could not think of anything to say. He forgot everything he had planned...