"In the history of the collective as in the history of the individual, everything depends on the development of consciousness."
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"The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers."
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"Without full awareness of breathing, there can be no development of meditative stability and understanding."
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"Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction."
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"The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit."
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"Democracy is the absolute value that makes for human dignity, as well as the only road to sustained economic development and social justice."
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"Your level of success will seldom exceed your level of personal development."
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"The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual."
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"I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings of the Hindus, and Plato."
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"Chile is a country that sells cheap and buys expensive, because we have to pay for manufactured goods from countries at much higher levels of development."
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"I'm proud of having been one of the first to recognize that states and the federal government have a duty to protect our natural resources from the damaging effects of pollution that can accompany industrial development."
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"The high stage of world-industrial development in capitalistic production finds expression in the extraordinary technical development and destructiveness of the instruments of war."
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"The True is the whole. But the whole is nothing other than the essence consummating itself through its development. Of the Absolute it must be said that it is essentially a result, that only in the end is it what it truly is; and that precisely in this consists its nature, viz. to be actual, subject, the spontaneous becoming of itself."
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"Science advances, not by the accumulation of new facts, but by the continuous development of new concepts."
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"The state of love is the state of grace. The development of that state and the unlocking of its mysteries brings one to the condition where there is no separation between oneself and others"
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"When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering."
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"literacy is at the heart of sustainable development"
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"Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Nicaragua have shown that by breaking with the unfair order imposed by the neoliberal adjustment policies, promoted by Washington and the western powers, they already have a more favorable economic development, and even a better social development."
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"Development cannot really be so centered only on those in power."
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"Conservation means development as much as it does protection."
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