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"The individual always realizes only one of the possibilities in its development, which could always have taken a different turning whenever it has to make an important decision."
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"There is an hidden energy in a child that works in all areas of growth and development."

"You must live a life of self-consciousness always."

"The years nineteen and twenty are a crucial stage in the maturation of character, and if you allow yourself to become warped when you're that age, it will cause you pain when you're older."

"The tallest trees sometimes grow from the smallest seeds."

"A continuous growth, a steady growth is a demand of life."

"For the development of India. the development of eastern India is essential"

"There is always the exceptional child, but the average tells us that the child is largely what the home has made him."

"The higher the proportion of adults with low literacy proficiency is, the slower the overall long-term GDP growth rate is."

"Walk and learn from the people that inspire you to do great things."

"I believe that for Nigeria and other third world countries to truly become developed, we must change the culture and attitude of our people towards work."
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"To attempt this would be like seeing without eyes or directing the gaze of knowledge behind one's own eye. Modern science can acknowledge no other than this epistemological stand-point."

"The lived experiences which could not find adequate scientific expression in the substance doctrine of rational psychology were now validated in light of new and better methods."

"No real blood flows in the veins of the knowing subject constructed by Locke, Hume, and Kant, but rather the diluted extract of reason as a mere activity of thought."

"Ancient metaphysics underwent many changes at the hands of medieval thinkers who brought it in line with the dominant religious and theological movements of their day."

"The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter."

"The sciences which take socio-historical reality as their subject matter are seeking, more intensively than ever before, their systematic relations to one another and to their foundation."

"The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing."

"If we conceive all the changes in the physical world as reducible to the motion of atoms, motions generated by means of the fixed nuclear forces of those atoms, the whole of the world could thus be known by means of the natural sciences."

"However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth century."
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