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Perhaps the various burnings of the Alexandria Library were necessary, like those Australian Forest ...

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One way to find food for thought is to use the fork in the road, the bifurcation that marks the plac...

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Is then no nook of English ground secureFrom rash assault?

People have separated from each other with walls of concrete that blocked the roads to connection an...

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the real purpose of socialism is precisely to overcome and advance beyond the predatory phase of hum...

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All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the indi...

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A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who ...

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Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone.

The "silly" question is the first intimation of some totally new development

The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organi...

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It is hard to understand how a compassionate world order can include so many people afflicted by acu...

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I'm not talking about being against development. I'm talking about the politics of development. I'm ...

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Arundhati RoyThe Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy

The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series...

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A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device whic...

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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

Roads get wider and busier and less friendly to pedestrians. And all of the development based around...

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Science is the best idea humans have ever had.

... To be in time means to change.

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effor...

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As is natural with contiguous states having like institutions and like aims of advancement and devel...

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we may say that History develops, Art stands still

Whatever Latin America sells—raw materials or manufactures—its chief export product is really cheap ...

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Eduardo GaleanoOpen Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

It's not all that important that you be able to originate brilliant ideas... The more important tale...

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Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand.

All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of soc...

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The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

In those meetings, I learned that even economic diagrams needn’t be linear. Ours was a nest of conce...

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That the AIDS pandemic is threatening sustainable development in Africa only reinforces the reality ...

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A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for su...

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During my nearly five years as director-general of WHO, high-level policymakers have increasingly re...

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If we were to suppose that mankind never can or will be in a better condition, it seems impossible t...

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Immanuel KantAn Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?

The environmental problems of developing countries are not the side effects of excessive industriali...

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No institute of science and technology can guarantee discoveries or inventions, and we cannot plan o...

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Environmental disaster is the gravest threat to China's continued development. That's according to m...

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The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect...

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Most of human history had been industry versus nature, with industry winning.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

To those peoples in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass mi...

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A small cabin stands in the Glacier Peak Wilderness, about a hundred yards off a trail that crosses ...

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My focus is incredibly narrow. I can't talk with any authority other than design and development of ...

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Our life evokes our character. You find out more about yourself as you go on. That’s why it’s good t...

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I designed 'Buffy' to be an icon, to be an emotional experience, to be loved in a way that other sho...

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Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succ...

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Death Valley wasn't dead at all. It was asleep. It was simply waiting for the conditions of growth. ...

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Ken RobinsonThe Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

Childhood isn't just those years. It's also the opinions you form about them afterward. That's why o...

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More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.

Communism is a monopolistic system, economically and politically. The system suppresses individual i...

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To ensure continuing prosperity in the global economy, nothing is more important than the developmen...

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I believe that even 'returning-to-nature' and anti pollution activities, no matter how commendable, ...

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There are two main methodologies of open source development. There's the Apache model, which is desi...

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We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop acc...

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You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social ju...

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I believe that the emphasis on curbing population growth diverts attention from the more vital issue...

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Muhammad YunusBanker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty

Th direct elimination of elimination of poverty should be the objective of all development aid. Deve...

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Muhammad YunusBanker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty

What I did not know yet about hunger, but would find out over the next twenty-one years, was that br...

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Muhammad YunusBanker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty

People.. were poor not because they were stupid or lazy. They worked all day long, doing complex phy...

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Muhammad YunusBanker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty

Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which i...

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The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa's major hope fo...

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Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to i...

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The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one qualit...

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Oscar WildeThe Soul of Man Under Socialism

Let your motto then always be 'Excelsior', for by living up to it there is no such word as fail.

Thanks to the centrifugal pump, places like Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas had thrown on the ...

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It is necessary - and toward this point our development will move, little by little - that nothing a...

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Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and eva...

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Development of outlook naturally begins with a respect for God... Reverence to God and reverence for...

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A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbon...

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Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development.

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselve...

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Every single important thing we do is something we didn't use to be good at, and in fact, might be s...

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India is not, as people keep calling it, an underdeveloped country, but rather, in the context of it...

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This boy - his name was Eric - said he thought it disgusting the way all the girls at my college sto...

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Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.

Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates.

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Vandana ShivaSoil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis

Can I be forgiven for all I've done to get here?I don't know. I don't know.please.-Tris, DivergentCa...

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The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them...

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Education is the development of power and ideal.

The development of the New Architecture encountered serious obstacles at a very early stage of its d...

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Development means a capacity for self-sustaining growth. It means that an economy must register adva...

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There was a period when the capitalist system increased the well-being of significant numbers of peo...

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On any basic figure of the Africans landed alive in the Americas, one would have to make several ext...

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Walter RodneyHow Europe Underdeveloped Africa

[Voltaire] theoretically prefers a republic, but he knows its flaws: it permits factions which, if t...

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Will DurantThe Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers