"The path of America's development is never a straight line. Sometimes we move in ways that are forwards; sometime that seem back."
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"The painter celebrates life where he finds it. His morality is the morality of enjoyment, of the continuous development of his own taste without shame or fear. It is a sort of heroism."
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"The development that produces great art is a moral and not an aesthetic development."
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"Use feedback analysis to identify your strengths. Then go to work on improving your strengths. Identify and eliminate bad habits that hinder the full development of your strengths. Figure out what you should do and do it. Finally, decide what you should not do."
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"The development of the plot of the novel leads to a single point, and it's my opinion that the ending that the novel has, which is a somewhat ambiguous ending, is the only logical ending given the structure of the book as a whole."
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"The most important factor for the development of the individual is the structure and the values of the society into which he was born."
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"To sin is to be off the mark, that is, to inhibit development, contracting backward into regression rather than expanding forward into growth."
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"it [is] possible to suppose that, if Russia is allowed to have peace, an amazing industrial development may take place, making Russia a rival of the United States."
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"Physics, owing to the simplicity of its subject matter, has reached a higher state of development than any other science."
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"When you get into a film, it is one story and one set development of a character, and you are able to delve into one character for a short period of time and discover everything about them."
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"Faith in the possibility of science, generated antecedently to the development of modern scientific theory, is an unconscious derivative from medieval theology."
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"Mathematics, in its widest significance, is the development of all types of formal, necessary, deductive reasoning."
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"You see this incredible capacity for replication in nature, survival, development, all of these things that are around us all the time in nature that just happen. By comparison, human life is really, really complicated. We're gifted animals, but we are so complicated. Nothing is easy for us, except maybe eating too much."
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"It seems to me that it is psyche in a way that has become occluded by the perverse development of language."
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"Each stage of cosmic development proceeded more quickly than the stage which preceded it."
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"At a very early stage of the novel's development I get this urge to collect bits of straw and fluff, and to eat pebbles. Nobody will ever discover how clearly a bird visualizes, or if it visualizes at all, the future nest and the eggs in it."
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"Passenger rail development takes time, but good things come to those who are patient and stay the course."
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"The student of Nature wonders the more and is astonished the less, the more conversant he becomes with her operations; but of all the perennial miracles she offers to his inspection, perhaps the most worthy of admiration is the development of a plant or of an animal from its embryo."
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"Mr. Darwin's hypothesis is not, so far as I am aware, inconsistent with any known biological fact; on the contrary, if admitted, the facts of Development, of Comparative Anatomy, of Geographical Distribution, and of Palaeontology, become connected together, and exhibit a meaning such as they never possessed before; and I, for one, am fully convinced that if not precisely true, that hypothesis is as near an approximation to the truth as, for example, the Copernican hypothesis was to the true theory of the planetary motions."
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"Different development itself runs the threat of making life shapeless."
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