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“The aim of life is self-development.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“It is necessary — and toward this point our development will move, little by little — that nothing alien happen to us, but only what has long been our own.” Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
“The whole point of being alive is to become the person you were intended to be, to grow out of and into yourself again and again.” Oprah Winfrey, What I Know For Sure
“What greater wealth is there than to own your Me and to spend it on growing?” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“I’m a bit retarded, like most Americans.” Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer
“We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity, and, it seemed to me, that here was that hateful grindstone broken at last!” H. G. Wells, The Time Machine
“The time has come to pay renewed attention to reality and the limits it imposes; this in turn is the condition for a more sound and fruitful development of individuals and society.” Pope Francis, Laudato si'
“Positive thinking can be contagious. Being surrounded by winners helps you develop into a winner.” Arnold Schwarzenegger, Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder
“In Newton's time it was possible for an educated person to have a grasp of the whole of human knowledge, at least in outline. But since then, the pace of the development of science has made this impossible.” Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time
“Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.” Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
“But there must be the look ahead, there must be a realization of the fact that to waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days...” Theodore Roosevelt, State of the Union Address
“The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.” Karl Marx, Das Kapital
“Nature offers simply the germs which education is to develop and perfect.” John Dewey, Democracy and Education

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