Amartya Sen
Economist, Philosopher
"Economic growth without investment in human development is unsustainable - and unethical."
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Maria Montessori
Educator, Physician
"The first essential for the child’s development is concentration. The child who concentrates is immensely happy."
Amartya Sen
Economist, Philosopher
"Human development, as an approach, is concerned with what I take to be the basic development idea: namely, advancing the richness of human life, rather than the richness of the economy in which human beings live, which is only a part of it."
Amartya Sen
Economist, Philosopher
"Freedoms are not only the primary ends of development, they are also among its principal means."
Maria Montessori
Educator, Physician
"Only through freedom and environmental experience is it practically possible for human development to occur."
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"The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race."
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"If we are going to see real development in the world then our best investment is WOMEN!"
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"All history has been a history of class struggles, of struggles between exploited and exploiting, between dominated and dominating classes at various stages of social development."
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"Education makes us the human beings we are. It has major impacts on economic development, on social equity, gender equity. In all kinds of ways, our lives are transformed by education and security. Even if it had not one iota of effect [on] security, it would still remain in my judgment the biggest priority in the world."
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"A heavy or progressive or graduated income tax is necessary for the proper development of Communism."
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"Education is the basic tool for the development of consciousness and the reconstitution of society."
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"Development requires major source of unfreedom: poverty as well as tyranny, poor economic opportunities as well as systematic social deprivation, neglect of public facilities as well as intolerance or overactivity of repressive states."
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"Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been."
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"The Millennium Development Goals can be met by 2015, but only if all involved break with business as usual and dramatically accelerate and scale up action now."
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"I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay."
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"When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development"
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"What a strange development of patriotism that turns a thinking being into a loyal machine!"
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"Thank God for giving you this world as a moral gymnasium to help your development, but never imagine you can help the world."
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"Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary at the moment for our evolution, and gives us the best advantage for the development of ourselves."
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"A child's character develops in accordance with the obstacles he has encountered... or the freedom favoring his development that he has enjoyed."
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"The falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind."
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"Every day, there's a new development. ... There's no limit to the things that are happening."
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"I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development."
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"The child is endowed with unknown powers, which can guide us to a radiant future. If what we really want is a new world, then education must take as its aim the development of these hidden possibilities."
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"In my clinical experience, the greatest block to a person's development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers."
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