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William Graham Sumner

"The great hinderance to the development of this continent has lain in the lack of capital."

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"The great hinderance to the development of this continent has lain in the lack of capital."

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"India will develop when our villages prosper. By improving the economy of villages we can power our country's growth."

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

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"I don't know how - it is a question of process."

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"Our self- development is all about cultivating the traits that we need to achieve our life purpose, success and to carry out our mission."

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"India's strength lies in her villages. Our aim is to bridge the differences between rural and urban India. We want our villages to have all the facilities that are there in the cities."

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

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"You have to work at having quality in your church, because people that are influential in your city may be God's instruments for resolving all kinds of problems that will most surely come up in the future."

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"To develop the person inside you is to pay attention and develop life within yourself."

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

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"In our process of spiritual maturity, our faith needs to attain bigger dimensions."

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"Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves."
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"A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness."
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"I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation."
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"Joint-stock companies are yet in their infancy, and incorporated capital, instead of being a thing which can be overturned, is a thing which is becoming more and more indispensable."
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"The waste of capital, in proportion to the total capital, in this country between 1800 and 1850, in the attempts which were made to establish means of communication and transportation, was enormous."
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"We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B, when the only question is whether A has done as well as he could."
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"It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme."
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"There is every indication that we are to see new developments of the power of aggregated capital to serve civilization, and that the new developments will be made right here in America."
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"The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its debt in the penitentiary or the poor house."
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"Men of routine or men who can do what they are told are not hard to find; but men who can think and plan and tell the routine men what to do are very rare."
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