"I've been interested in the reports on Rojava. It seems clear that there are positive developments."
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"North American society could not have reached its state of high development and modernity had it not been an open society."
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"It is also false that the revolution ripens and comes to development only in the national soil."
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"The value of any experience is measured, of course, not by the amount of money, but the amount of development we get out of it."
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"The American has dwindled into an Odd Fellow,-one who may be known by the development of his organ of gregariousness."
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"That so many are ready to live by luck, and so get the means of commanding the labor of others less lucky, without contributing any value to society! And that is called enterprise! I know of no more startling development of the immorality of trade, and all the common modes of getting a living."
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"I was a huge fan of 'Arrested Development,' and there's just something it tickles in me and it's bright and it's hilarious."
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"Her chief dread in life, at this period of her development, was that she would appear narrow minded; what she feared next afterwards was that she should be so."
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"Any species capable of producing, at this earliest, juvenile stage of its development... the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, cannot be all bad."
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"It is a prejudice to think that morality is more favourable to the development of reason than immorality."
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"[Heraclitus had] the highest form of pride [stemming] from a certainty of belief in the truth as grasped by himself alone. He brings this form, by its excessive development, into a sublime pathos by involuntary identification of himself with his truth."
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"What is the true test of character unless it be its progressive development in the bustle and turmoil, in the action and reaction of daily life."
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"Belief, thus, in the supernatural, great as are the services which it rendered in the early stages of human development, cannot be considered to be any longer required, either for enabling us to know what is right and wrong in social morality, or for supplying us with motives to do right and to abstain from wrong."
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"There is a magnificent new militancy within the Negro community all across this nation. And I welcome this as a marvelous development. The Negro of America is saying he's determined to be free and he is militant enough to stand up."
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"In our development, as we grow throughout our lives, the structure of our beliefs becomes very complicated, and we make it even more complicated because we make the assumption that what we believe is the absolute truth."
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"In the world of development, if one mixes the poor and the nonpoor in a program, the nonpoor will always drive out the poor, and the less poor will drive out the more poor, unless protective measures are instituted right at the beginning. In such cases, the nonpoor reap the benefits of all that is done in the name of the poor."
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"Th direct elimination of elimination of poverty should be the objective of all development aid. Development should be viewed as a human rights issue, not as a question of simply increasing the gross national product (GNP)."
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"Health care can be made more affordable for the poor without requiring major new scientific developments, just the smart application of current technologies. We have seen a $25 incubator and diagnostic instruments that are built tough, cheap, and reusable for the developing world."
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