Any one who looked too far abroad with regard to the outcome of what he is proposing to do would, if there were no general rules in existence, soon be lost in a hopelessly complicated muddle of considerations.
Dewey warns against the complexities that arise from considering too many variables in decision-making.
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Systematic and continuous inquiry into all the conditions which affect association and their dissemination in print is a precondition of the creation of a true public.
But the wingèd words of conversation in immediate intercourse have a vital import lacking in the fixed and frozen words of written speech.
The problem of securing diffused and seminal intelligence can be solved only in the degree in which local communal life becomes a reality.
Vision is a spectator; hearing is a participator.