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Eleanor Roosevelt Political Activist, Diplomat
Development

"Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one's world."

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Carl Jung Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
Development

"The psyche is a natural phenomenon. All aspects of the psyche, even those which seem pathological or destructive, actually serve the function of furthering our psychological development."

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Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist
Development

"Haiti should remind us all that there is an immediate need to invest in and promote long-term development projects that are sustainable, scalable, and proven to work."

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Bono Musician, Activist
Development

"Anyone that's involved in development has discovered that all the good work that's been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency."

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Aung San Suu Kyi Politician, Activist
Development

"Peace, development, and justice are all connected to each other. We cannot talk about economic development without talking about peace. How can we expect economic development in a battlefield?"

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Theodore Roosevelt Politician, Author
Development

"There is a delight in the hardy life of the open. There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm. The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value. Conservation means development as much as it does protection."

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Susan Downey Producer, Actress
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"We've been spending this kind of ramp up time from the time we started the company to now with a lot of different projects in development. What we aren't doing is saying, "We have to do this, this and this." Because the "this, this and this" might not be ready and you don't want to go and make something that's not ready."

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Karl Marx Philosopher, Economist
Development

"In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."

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Hannah Arendt Philosopher, Political Theorist
Development

"It is in the very nature of a beginning to carry with itself a measure of complete arbitrariness. Not only is it not bound into a reliable chain of cause and effect, a chain in which each effect immediately turns into the cause for future developments, the beginning has, as it were, nothing whatever to hold on to; it is as though it came out of nowhere in either time or space."

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Nelson Mandela Political Leader
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"We cannot blame other people for our troubles. We are not victims of the influx of foreign people into South Africa. We must remember that it was mainly due to the aggressive and hostile policies of the apartheid regime that the economic development of our neighbours was undermined."

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