"Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend."
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"All is flux; nothing stays still."
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"In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs."
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"What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth."
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"A mind, once formed, is never suited after, One yet in growth will ever grateful be. [Ger., Wer fertig ist, dem ist nichts recht zu machen, Ein Werdender wird immer dankbar sein.]"
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"Whatever helps to shape the human being - to make the individual what he is, or hinder him from being what he is not - is part of his education."
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"Travel does not exist without home....If we never return to the place we started, we would just be wandering, lost. Home is a reflecting surface, a place to measure our growth and enrich us after being infused with the outside world."
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"The link between peace and stability on the one hand, and social and economic growth on the other, is dialectic. Peace, poverty, and backwardness cannot mix in one region."
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"In Ali change creation faith growth hope humor life living Muhammad Ali transformation wonder If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you."
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"But peace, too, is a living thing and like all life it must wax and wane, accommodate, withstand trials, and undergo changes."
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"A low-carbon, clean energy economy can be an engine of growth for decades to come."
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"You've got to have tax reform to get faster economic growth. Faster economic growth is necessary for us to get our debt under control."
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"In the end we won't be judged as a society solely by our growth statistics or economic activity graphs. We will be judged by the quality of the life that we foster for all members of the community and the compassion we show for the disadvantaged."
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"Life is based on growth and finding new challenges to face and overcome, new contributions to make to society, and constantly coming to a better understanding of yourself and the universe in which you live."
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"The key thing you can do to reduce population growth is actually improve health."
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"Rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality."
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"It is only barbarous nations who have a sudden growth after a victory"
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"The spirit knows that its growth is the real aim of existence."
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"Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself."
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"But what after all, behind appearances, is this seeming mystery? We can see that it is the Consciousness which had lost itself returning again to itself, emerging out of its giant self-forgetfulness, slowly, painfully, as a Life that is would be sentient, half-sentient, dimly sentient, wholly sentient and finally struggles to be more than sentient, to be again divinely selfconscious, free, infinite, immortal."
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