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• Admittedly, we must move ahead with the development of our land resources. Likewise, our technology must be refined. But in the long run life will succeed only in a life-giving environment, and we can no longer afford unnecessary sacrifices of living space and natural landscape to 'progress.'

  Stewart Udall

  Running, Moving, Sacrifice

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• Samskrit is the unsurpassed zenith in the whole development of languages yet known to us.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Zenith, Language, Whole

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• The ultimate resource in economic development is people. It is people, not capital or raw materials that develop an economy.

  Peter Drucker

  People, Raw Materials, Economic

  Peter F. Drucker (2011). “Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New”, p.180, Transaction Publishers

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• Every enterprise is learning and teaching institution. Training and development must be built into it on all levels, training and development that never stop.

  Peter Drucker

  Teaching, Training, Levels

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker (2006). “Classic Drucker: Essential Wisdom of Peter Drucker from the Pages of Harvard Business Review”, p.195, Harvard Business Press

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• I learnt a lot about coaching from observing other coaches. I would recommend that they attend coaching courses and coach development opportunities wherever possible

  Rebecca Bulley

  Opportunity, Coaching, Serving Others

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• The more people participate in the process of their own education, and the more people participate in defining what kind of production to produce, and for what and why, the more people participate in the development of their selves. The more people become themselves, the better the democracy.

  Paulo Freire

  Self, People, Democracy

  Myles Horton, Paulo Freire, Brenda Bell, John Gaventa (1990). “We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change”, p.145, Temple University Press

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• The main obstacle to our development is our lack of knowledge about the nature of consciousness itself.

  David Hawkins

  Obstacles, Consciousness, Lack Of Knowledge

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• Only a development of thought achieved through the self-education of the whole man can prevent any body of thought whatsoever from becoming a poison; can prevent enlightenment from becoming an agent of death.

  Karl Jaspers

  Men, Self, Becoming

  Karl Jaspers (1960). “Way to Wisdom: An Introduction to Philosophy”, p.93, Yale University Press

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• Had it not been for the race problem early thrust upon me and enveloping me, I should have probably been an unquestioning worshipper at the shrine of the established social order and of the economic development into which I was born.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Race, Order, Should Have

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• The invention of the concept of sustainable human development and that of so-called human security, as opposed to territorial security of nation- states, and its promotion by the UN is in clear contradiction to all that we, the Group of 77, and the UN Charter itself consider inalienable, namely national sovereignty and security.

  Pranab Mukherjee

  Groups, Promotion, Contradiction

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• If joy and peace and rewards were instantaneously given the doer of good, there would be no evil-all would do good but not because of the rightness of doing good. There would be no test of strength, no development of character, no growth of powers, no free agency, only satanic controls.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Character, Agency, Evil

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• Officers in the Church of Jesus Christ are called for two distinct purposes: First and foremost, to serve the people; and, secondly, to gain the development and enlarged understanding which always follow earnest service in a responsible position. It is an honorable privilege and a personal benefit to be allowed to serve in an official position in the Church; and an office, whatever it may be, should be accepted in a spirit of grateful appreciation.

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Appreciation, Jesus, Grateful

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• The psyche is a natural phenomenon. All aspects of the psyche, even those which seem pathological or destructive, actually serve the function of furthering our psychological development.

  Carl Jung

  Psychological, Natural, Function

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• The unwillingness of most leaders to set standards, to administer feedback when standards are not met, to praise clearly when standards are met, stands in the way of the development of excellence. The leader who makes no demands of his disciples cannot really lead them at all. The sense of new excitement and new challenge generated by the gospel will be blunted by leaders who shield followers from the full demands of fellowship.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Leader, Challenges, Excellence

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• In the years since The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin, Voinovich has sharpened his satire, and Monumental Propaganda is a novel that slashes and rips -- but not on every page. He expands his narrative to accommodate shrewd philosophy and inventive portraiture, a very amusing disquisition on Soviet latrines and a number of outlandish plot developments. In his translation, Andrew Bromfield deftly shifts his tone and tools as required, remaining true to Voinovich's Vonnegut-like playfulness and appreciation of the absurd.

  Ken Kalfus

  Appreciation, Rip, Philosophy

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• The people of Iran have been battling against consecutive conflicts between tradition and modernity for over 100 years... some have tried and are trying to see the world through the eyes of their predecessors and to deal with the problems and difficulties of the existing world by virtue of the values of the ancients... many others...seek to go forth in step with world developments and not lag behind the caravan of civilization, development and progress.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Eye, Iran, Years

  Shirin Ebadi's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2003.

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• Software development takes immense intellectual effort. Even the best programmers can rarely sustain that level of effort for more than a few hours a day. Beyond that, they need to rest their brains a bit, which is why they always seem to be surfing the Internet or playing games when you barge in on them.

  Joel Spolsky

  Playing Games, Effort, Surfing

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• The AIDS epidemic, rather than being a scourge, is a welcome development in the inevitable reduction of human population... If it didn't exist, radical environmentalists would have to invent it.

  David Foreman

  Aids Epidemic, Epidemics, Population

  "Are There Just too Many People in the World?" by Johann Hari, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 16, 2008.

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• As always with any discussion of elite immunity, it's crucial to note that what makes this development such a particularly warped travesty is that the very same elites who enjoy this immunity have created the world's largest, and the Western world's most oppressive and merciless, penal state for ordinary citizens.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Ordinary, Citizens, World

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• I am left with no choice but to acknowledge the existence of a superior Intellect, responsible for the design and development of the incredible brain-mind relationship... I have to believe all this had an intelligent beginning.

  Robert J. White

  Believe, Intelligent, Choices

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• The importance of the development of the emotional body is hardly recognized today. We are pretty much left to our own devices to come to full adulthood, whether man or woman. Our elders may have become so denatured themselves from a lack of such nurturance that there is no longer a collective knowledge of how to guide the awakening emotional vitality and authenticity of our young people, our children. Mindfulness may contribute to a reawakening of this ancient wisdom in ourselves and in others.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Children, Men, Emotional

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• The idea that a relatively fixed group of privileged people might shape the economy and government for their own benefit goes against the American grain. Nevertheless, the owners and top-level managers in large income-producing properties are far and away the dominant power figures in the United States. Their corporations, banks, and agribusinesses come together as a corporate community that dominates the federal government in Washington. Their real estate, construction, and land development companies form growth coalitions that dominate most local governments.

  G. William Domhoff

  Real, Land, Ideas

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• For every step in spiritual perception, three steps are to be taken in moral development.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Spiritual, Taken, Moral Development

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• Sport is and should remain a great school of life that supports young people in their personal development. It teaches respect for others and also for oneself.

  Richard Attias

  Sports, School, People

  "The Olympics and the Spirit of Sport" by Richard Attias, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 27, 2012.

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• It is a mistake to assume that government must necessarily last forever. The institution marks a certain stage of civilization-is natural to a particular phase of human development. It is not essential, but incidental. As amongst the Bushmen we find a state antecedent to government, so may there be one in which it shall have become extinct.

  Herbert Spencer

  Mistake, Civilization, Government

  Herbert Spencer (1873). “Social Statics; Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, & the First of Them Developed”, p.24

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