Language exists only when it is listened to as well as spoken. The hea…

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Language exists only when it is listened to as well as spoken. The hearer is an indispensable partner. ✨ John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Abraham Kaplan (2008). The Later Works of John Dewey, 1925-1953, Volume 10: 1934, Art as Experience, p.111, SIU Press
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To me faith means not worrying. ✨ John Dewey, Donald F Koch (2008). Lectures on Ethics, 1900 - 1901: John Dewey, p.140, SIU Press
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. ✨ John D … ▶
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Language exists only when it is listened to as well as spoken. The hearer is an indispensable partner. ✨ John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Abraham Kaplan (2008). The Later Works of John Dewey, 1925-1953, Volume 10: 1934, Art as Experience, p.111, SIU Press

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