"Even the development of the steam engine owed but little to the advancement of science."
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"For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?"
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"The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa's major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years."
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"Independent development can be a virus that can infect others."
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"The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology."
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"The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."
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"... one of the main functions of an analogy or model is to suggest extensions of the theory by considering extensions of the analogy, since more is known about the analogy than is known about the subject matter of the theory itself ... A collection of observable concepts in a purely formal hypothesis suggesting no analogy with anything would consequently not suggest either any directions for its own development."
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"On this International Literacy Day, let us recall that literacy for all is an integral part of education for all, and that both are critical for achieving truly sustainable development for all."
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"A superior who works on his own development sets an almost irresistible example."
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"In the tale proper--where there is no space for development of character or for great profusion and variety of incident--mere construction is, of course, far more imperatively demanded than in the novel."
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"One of the greatest inhibitions to the development of human potential is the aversion to effective practice."
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"Many of the green places and open spaces that need protecting most today are in our own neighborhoods. In too many places, the beauty of local vistas has been degraded by decades of ill-planned and ill-coordinated development."
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"Vaccination is one of the easiest things on the way to development. It's much easier than roads and a great education system. It's very basic. It's one of the first things you want to get right."
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"It seems to me that there will be a point in out development or our evolution where you put your guns aside."
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"The comprehensibility of the world seems to me a wonder or eternal secret. Here lies the sense of wonder which increases even more with the development of our knowledge."
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"I definitely feel that we cannot do the fantastic things based on the real, unless we first know the real."
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"Development is a lot cheaper than sending soldiers."
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"A great European federative system alone can be favourable to the development of civilisation."
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"If we want any significant development, we must co-opt civil society."
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"With the development of industrial capitalism, a new and unanticipated system of injustice, it is libertarian socialism that has preserved and extended the radical humanist message of the Enlightenment and the classical liberal ideals that were perverted into an ideology to sustain the emerging social order."
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