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Peter Drucker Management Consultant, Author
Growth

"The greatest change in corporate culture - and the way business is being conducted - may be the accelerated growth of relationships based... on partnership."

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Edward Kennedy Politician
Growth

"In fact, the legal system is in part responsible for their very size and growth. And too often when the individual finds himself in conflict with these forces, the legal system sides with the giant institution, not the small businessman or private citizen."

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Oprah Winfrey Television host, producer, philanthropist
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"If we're really committed to growth, we never stop discovering new dimensions of self and self-expression ."

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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
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"Hopes have precarious life. They are oft blighted, withered, snapped sheer off In vigorous growth and turned to rottenness."

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James Monroe Politician
Growth

"If we look to the history of other nations, ancient or modern, we find no example of a growth so rapid, so gigantic, of a people so prosperous and happy."

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May Sarton Poet
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"When I am alone the flowers are really seen; I can pay attention to them. They are felt as presences. Without them I would die...they change before my eyes. They live and die in a few days; they keep me closely in touch with the process, with growth, and also with dying. I am floated on their moments."

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Deepak Chopra Author, Speaker
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"What you pay attention to grows. If your attention is attracted to negative situations and emotions, then they will grow in your awareness."

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Alveda King Activist
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"If we have an honest discussion on whether the war on poverty should be fought with welfare or with economic growth in the private sector, Democrats will lose black votes."

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Aristotle Philosopher
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"The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only one of these is present, we say that the thing is alive, if, for instance, there is intellect or perception or spatial movement and rest or indeed movement connected with nourishment and growth and decay. It is for this reason that all the plants are also held to be alive . . ."

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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
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"It's possible to see the whole human growth movement of the 1970s as a wish to continue the inward quest without having to put yourself on the line in the way you had to when you took 250 gamma of LSD. And I think all these other methods are efficacious, but I think it's the sheer power of the hallucinogens that puts people off."

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Stanley Baldwin Politician
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"Whatever failures may have come to parliamentary government in countries which have not those traditions, and where it is not a natural growth, that is no proof that parliamentary government has failed."

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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"In Europe there's an dangerous growth of ultra xenophobia which is pretty threatening to any one who remembers the history of Europe... and an attack on the remnants of the welfare state. It's hard to interpret the austerity-in-the-midst-of-recession policy as anything other than attack on the social contract."

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