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An inchoate public is capable of organization only when indirect consequences are perceived, and when it is possible to project agencies which order their occurrence.
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John Dewey
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Dewey emphasizes the need for public awareness and organization to address social issues.
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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.
Ideas which are not communicated, shared, and reborn in expression are but soliloquy, and soliloquy is but broken and imperfect thought.
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