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

"Our churches are full of people during work hours, in the morning, at noon, in the evening praying, instead of being in the factories, libraries, and laboratories, facilitating economic growth."

"Teach yourself. Help yourself. Improve yourself. Enrich yourself."

"When children in village stop attending school, it should worry us. When it comes to rural development, we should not merely think of how much budget was allotted, we should look at Jan Suvidha in entirety."

"Development does not take place in Washington, DC. Development takes place in the rest of the world."

"The purpose of education should ultimately be the advancement of the species. And for this to actually happen, the world needs the kind of education by means of which character is formed, strength of the mind is increased and the human intellect is expanded beyond its own limits."

"Writing a children's book means you cannot spin out long narratives or have complex character development."

"Every man from his worth can build and increase his net worth."

"Your primary presumption that The Bridge was proffered as an epic has no substantial foundation. You know quite well that I doubt that our present stage of cultural development is so ordered yet as to provide the means or method for such an organic manifestation as that."

"Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves."
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"From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon."


"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."


"Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature."


"All science is experiential; but all experience must be related back to and derives its its validity from the conditions and context of consciousness in which it arises, i.e., the totality of our nature."


"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."


"If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context."


"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."


"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."
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