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Thus it happens that the state, instead of being all absorbing and inclusive, is under some circumstances the most idle and empty of social arrangements.
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John Dewey
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This statement suggests that the state can sometimes be ineffective or irrelevant in social matters.
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Publication is partial and the public which results is partially informed and formed until the meanings it purveys pass from mouth to mouth.
We lie, as Emerson said, in the lap of an immense intelligence.
Ideas which are not communicated, shared, and reborn in expression are but soliloquy, and soliloquy is but broken and imperfect thought.
But the wingèd words of conversation in immediate intercourse have a vital import lacking in the fixed and frozen words of written speech.