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"My own conclusion is that history is simply social development along the lines of weakest resistance, and that in most cases the line of weakest resistance is found as unconsciously by society as by water."
"We are concerned, not with the development of just one capacity, such as that of a mathematician, or a scientist, or a musician, but with the total development of the student as a human being."
"In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to himself, and is therefore capable of being more valuable to others. . . ."
"If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development."
"All geologic history is full of the beginning and the ends of species-of their first and last days; but it exhibits no genealogies of development."
"In the development of both capitalism and communism, as we visualize them in the next fifty or a hundred years, the processes that encourage human alienation will continue."
"What is common to our societies is the development into a managed mass society, with big bureaucracy, managing people. The Russians do it by force. We do it by persuasion."
"You know, the only way I've found to make these pictures is with animators. You can't seem to do it with accountants and bookkeepers."
"Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God."
"What we want is progress, development, realisation."
"It is the duty of every person to contribute in the development and progress of India."
"A national spirit is necessary for national existence. A flag is a material aid to the development of such a spirit."
"The development of technology will leave only one problem: the infirmity of human nature."
"We cannot read the history of our rise and development as a nation, without reckoning with the place the Bible has occupied in shaping the advances of the Republic. Where we have been the truest and most consistent in obeying its precepts, we have attained the greatest measure of contentment and prosperity."
"So I have no grounds to complain; on the contrary, writers should consider the condition of permanent controversiality to be invigorating, part of the risk envolved in choosing the profesión. It is a fact of life that writers have always and with due consideration and great pleasure spit in the soup of the high and mighty. That is what makes the history of literature analogous to the development and refinement of censorship."
"As far as mental development is concerned, we should never be complacent. We can develop our minds infinitely - there is no limitation."
"No single Tibetan dreaming return of previous sort of backwardness, therefore as far as economy development is concerned, Tibet remain within the People's Republic of China, we will get greater benefit."
"Surely arrested development consists not in refusing to lose old things but in failing to add new things."
"No development strategy can be based only upon what comes out of the ground, nor can it be sustained while young people are out of work."
"We are growing the economy in smart ways and rebuilding our infrastructure and investing in science and development and that we stay true to those values that helped to get us here."
