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Only when there exist signs or symbols of activities and of their outcome can the flux be viewed as from without, be arrested for consideration and esteem, and be regulated.
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John Dewey
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gutenberg.orgOnly when there exist signs or symbols of activities and of their outcome can the flux be viewed as from without, be arrested for consideration and esteem, and be regulated.
Dewey emphasizes the importance of symbols in understanding and regulating human activities.
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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.
Publication is partial and the public which results is partially informed and formed until the meanings it purveys pass from mouth to mouth.
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