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Not only were the wants and intentions which actually operated functions of associated life, but they re-determined the forms and temper of this life.
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John Dewey
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Dewey explains how collective wants and intentions shape social life.
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The problem of securing diffused and seminal intelligence can be solved only in the degree in which local communal life becomes a reality.
Competition will continue, but it will be less rivalry for acquisition of material goods, and more an emulation of local groups to enrich direct experience with appreciatively enjoyed intellectual and artistic wealth.
But the wingèd words of conversation in immediate intercourse have a vital import lacking in the fixed and frozen words of written speech.
We lie, as Emerson said, in the lap of an immense intelligence.