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Victor Hugo Novelist, Poet
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"The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both."

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Karl Marx Philosopher, Economist
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"The Communist revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional property relations; no wonder that its development involves the most radical rupture with traditional ideas."

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John Stuart Mill Philosopher, Political Economist
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"There is never any fair and thorough discussion of heretical opinions... The greatest harm done is to those who are not heretics, and whose whole mental development is cramped and their reason cowed, by the fear of heresy."

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Horace Mann Educator
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"Let us labor for that larger comprehension of truth, and that more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of mankind a series of ascending developments."

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Virginia Satir Psychotherapist, Author
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"You have all played a significant part in my development of loving. As a result, my life has been rich and full, so I leave feeling very grateful."

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Karl Marx Philosopher, Economist
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"We know that violent measures against religion are nonsense; but this is an opinion: as socialism grows, religion will disappear. Its disappearance must be done by social development, in which education must play a part."

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Hannah Arendt Philosopher, Political Theorist
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"The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object."

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Dalai Lama Spiritual Leader
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"Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free. True peace with oneself and with the world around us can only be achieved through the development of mental peace."

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Bruce Lee Martial Artist, Actor, Director
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"Training is one of the most neglected phases of athletics. Too much time is given to the development of skill and too little to the development of the individual for participation."

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Sigmund Freud Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
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"In the development of mankind as a whole, just as in individuals, love alone acts as the civilizing factor in the sense that it brings a change from egoism to altruism."

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Maria Montessori Educator, Physician
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"If a child finds no stimuli for the activities which would contribute to his development, he is attracted simply to 'things' and desires to posses them."

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Carroll Smith Author
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"We normally learn at least as much from our mistakes as we do from our successes. The best development driver/engineer I ever knew once told me that he reckoned that about 20% of his bright ideas worked."

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Woodrow Wilson Politician
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"The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question."

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