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• I suppose actors crave attention of some kind or they have suffered some form of arrested development and are still living in a sort of child's fantasy existence at some level in their psyche.

  Hugh Laurie

  Children, Attention, Actors

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• Navajo infants get so attached to cradleboard that they cry to be tied into it. Kikuyu infants in Kenya get handed around several"mothers," all wives to one man. . . . Mothers in rural Guatemala keep their infants quiet, in dark huts. Middle-class American mothers talk a blue streak at them. Israeli kibbutz mothers give them over to a communal caretaker . . . Japanese mothers sleep with them. . . . All these tactics are compatible with normal health--physical and mental--and development in infancy. So one lesson for parents so far seems to be: Let a hundred flowers bloom.

  Melvin Konner

  Mother, Flower, Sleep

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• Ninety percent of what most yoga teachers do is teach asana practice. While asana discharges stress and so forth, it was never intended to be a standalone practice. The true intent of yoga is personal transformation. What we get out of the privilege of teaching prisoners is the opportunity to focus on our own personal development. You can be of service, and, while helping others transform their lives, you have the deeper opportunity to transform your own. What we teach in prison is how we live our lives.

  James Fox

  Teacher, Stress, Teaching

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• The love of life, at any and every level of development, is the religious impulse.

  William James

  Religious, Love Life, Levels

  William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.507, Courier Corporation

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• It is, indeed, perhaps the greatest prospect of humanistic studies to contribute through an increasing knowledge of the history of cultural development to that gradual removal of prejudices which is the common aim of all science.

  Niels Bohr

  Prejudice, Common, Study

  Niels Bohr (2010). “Atomic Physics and Human Knowledge”, p.31, Courier Dover Publications

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• Who of us would not be glad to lift the veil behind which the future lies hidden; to cast a glance at the next advances of
  our science and at the secrets of its development during future centuries? What particular goals will there be toward
  which the leading mathematical spirits of coming generations will strive? What new methods and new facts in the
  wide and rich field of mathematical thought will the new centuries disclose?

  David Hilbert

  Lying, Goal, Secret

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• High-quality software is not expensive. High-quality software is faster and cheaper to build and maintain than low-quality software, from initial development all the way through total cost of ownership.

  Capers Jones

  Quality, Cost, Way

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• The surprise of the fight on the long day, of the experiments with the shorter one, has been not only that the business could stand it, but that the business thrived under it as surely as the man did. It is but another of the proofs which are heaping up in American industry to-day that whatever is good for men and women - contributes to their health, happiness, development - is good for business.

  Ida Tarbell

  Business, Fighting, Men

  Ida Minerva Tarbell (1916). “New Ideals in Business, an Account of Their Practice and Their Effects Upon Men and Profits”

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• The subject for which I am asking your attention deals with the foundations of mathematics. To understand the development of the opposing theories existing in this field one must first gain a clear understnding of the concept "science"; for it is as a part of science that mathematics originally took its place in human thought.

  L. E. J. Brouwer

  Foundation, Attention, Asking

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• Mr. Darwin's hypothesis is not, so far as I am aware, inconsistent with any known biological fact; on the contrary, if admitted, the facts of Development, of Comparative Anatomy, of Geographical Distribution, and of Palaeontology, become connected together, and exhibit a meaning such as they never possessed before; and I, for one, am fully convinced that if not precisely true, that hypothesis is as near an approximation to the truth as, for example, the Copernican hypothesis was to the true theory of the planetary motions.

  Thomas Huxley

  Together, Example, Facts

  "Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature". Book by Thomas Henry Huxley. Chapter 2, p. 127, 1863.

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• [O]ur greatest contributions to the cause of freedom and development overseas is not what we do over there, but what we do right here at home.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Freedom, Integrity, Home

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• Reality, in its quantitative aspect, must be considered as a system of populations... The general study of the equilibria and dynamics of populations seems to have no name; but as it has probably reached its highest development in the biological study known as 'ecology,' this name may well be given to it.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Reality, Names, Population

  "A Reconstruction of Economics". Book by Kenneth Ewart Boulding, p. 5, 1950.

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• Economic progress means the discovery and application of better ways of doing things to satisfy our wants. The piping of water to a household that previously dragged it from a well, the growing of two blades of grass where one grew before, the development of a power loom that enables one man to weave ten times as much as he could before, the use of steam power and electric power instead of horse or human power - all these things clearly represent economic progress.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Horse, Mean, Men

  "Principles of Economic Policy". Book by Kenneth Ewart Boulding, p. 23, 1958.

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• No leader, however great a personality he may be, is as important to a people as their own intellectual development.

  George William Russell

  People, Leader, Personality

  George William Russell (1937). “The Living Torch, A. E.”

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• However global I strove to become in my thinking over the past twenty years, my sons kept me rooted to an utterly pedestrian view,intimately involved with the most inspiring and fractious passages in human development. However unconsciously by now, motherhood informs every thought I have, influencing everything I do. More than any other part of my life, being a mother taught me what it means to be human.

  Mary Blakely

  Mother, Mean, Son

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• The majority of America's colossal fortunes have been made by entering industries in their early stages and developing leadership in them.... Think of what opportunities the present and the future contain in such fields as ship-building and ship-owning, aircraft, electrical development, the oil industry, different branches of the automotive industry, foreign trade, international banking, invention, the chemical industry, moving pictures, color photography, and, one night add, labor leadership.

  B. C. Forbes

  Photography, Moving, Thinking

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• Genius is the accumulated wealth of our humanity--its most intense development concentrated at one point, and then with clearer expression and with mysterious power shot back to us across the galvanic lines of thought and feeling.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Expression, Feelings, Humanity

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• Where the vivacity of the intellect and the strength of the passions exceed the development of the moral faculties the character is likely to be embittered or corrupted by extremes, either of adversity or prosperity.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Passion, Character, Adversity

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• Morally a woman has a right to the free and entire development of every faculty which God has given her to be improved and used to His honor. Socially she has a right to the protection of equal laws; the right to labor with her hands the thing that is good; to select the kind of labor which is in harmony with her condition and her powers; to exist, if need be, by her labor, or to profit others by it if she choose. These are her rights, not more nor less than the rights of the man.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Men, Rights, Hands

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• If we can find a principle to guide us in the handling of the child between nine and eighteen months, we can see that we need to allow enough opportunity for handling and investigation of objects to further intellectual development and just enough restriction required for family harmony and for the safety of the child.

  Selma Fraiberg

  Children, Opportunity, Safety

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• At each stage of development the child needs different resources from the family. During the first year, a variety of experience and the availability of the parents for attachment are primary. During the second and third years, stimulation of language development is critical. During the years prior to school entrance, information that persuades children they are loved becomes critical, and during the school years it is important for children to believe that they can succeed at the tasks they want to master.

  Jerome Kagan

  Children, Believe, School

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• The development of mathematics towards greater precision has led, as is well known, to the formalization of large tracts of it, so that one can prove any theorem using nothing but a few mechanical rules.

  Kurt Gödel

  Well Known, Mathematics, Precision

  Kurt Gödel, S. Feferman (1986). “Kurt Gödel: Collected Works: Volume I: Publications 1929-1936”, p.145, Oxford University Press

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• The goal of a startup is to figure out the right thing to build-the thing customers want and will pay for-as quickly as possible. In other words, the Lean Startup is a new way of looking at the development of innovative new products that emphasizes fast iteration and customer insight, a huge vision, and great ambition, all at the same time.

  Eric Ries

  Ambition, Goal, Vision

  Eric Ries (2011). “The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses”, p.20, Crown Business

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• I certainly don't agree with the bodybuilders who say you can get big forearms just by squeezing the dumbbell handles when doing curls. In a few cases this may be true, but those guys would build big forearms by merely eating eggs in the morning. Most bodybuilders, myself included, have to work very hard for any kind of meaningful forearm development.

  Lou Ferrigno

  Meaningful, Morning, Eggs

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• At every step of our Christian development and in every sphere of our Christian discipleship, pride is the greatest enemy and humility our greatest friend.

  John Stott

  Christian, Humility, Pride

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