"Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be."
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"We will not enjoy security without development, we will not enjoy development without security, and we will not enjoy either without respect for human rights."
"Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising."
"You're not a moron. You're only a case of arrested development."
"Personal development is the belief that you are worth the effort, time, and energy needed to develop yourself."
"My intellectual development was retarded, as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up."
"As you know Cuba has progressed a lot regarding all the indicators of social development and those rates can be compared favorably with the first world in several aspects. We think that without the heavy burden of the blockade that we can move forward a lot more in building prosperous and sustainable socialism to which we aspire."
"Our pride and self-importance are European, while our development and actions are Asiatic."
"The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development."
"So in Jewry we recognise a contemporary universal anti-social phenomenon, which has reached its present pitch through a process of, historical development in which the Jews have zealously co-operated. And this evil anti-social aspect of Jewry has grown to a stage at which: it must necessarily collapse."
"That is why we may say that the historical development of capitalism has involved the thrust towards the commodification of everything."
"The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not its growth and development."
"Peace is the greatest weapon for development that any person can have."
"Nothing is unthinkable, nothing impossible to the balanced person, provided it comes out of the needs of life and is dedicated to life's further development."
"Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual."
"To be sure, we have inherited abilities, but our development we owe to thousands of influences coming from the world around us from which we appropriate what we can and what is suitable to us."
"In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to others. There is a greater fullness of life about his own existence, and when there is more life in the units there is more in the mass which is composed of them."
"HIV/AIDS has become much more than a health issue. HIV/AIDS is a development issue, it's a security issue."
"Women must be full partners in development, so they can lift themselves and their communities out of poverty."
"Things are both getting better and getting worse. The madness is accelerating but an acceleration of the new consciousness is also coming in. However, this latter development is less apparent when you listen to the media. The media still mostly reflects what is happening in the sphere of the old consciousness."