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“The mind of a little child is fascinating, for it looks on old things with new eyes-but at about twelve this changes. The adolescent offers nothing, can do nothing, say nothing that the adult cannot do better.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Childhood
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Perception
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Adolescence
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Aging
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Human Development
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“Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a guide with a well-made rather than a well-filled head.”
Michel de Montaigne
Education
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Wisdom
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Ability
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Knowledge
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Human Development
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“Natural inclinations are assisted and reinforced by education, but they are hardly ever altered or overcome.”
Michel de Montaigne
Nature
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Nurture
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Education
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Personality
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Human Development
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“Education perverts the mind since we are directly opposing the natural development of our mind by obtaining ideas first and observations last. This is why so few men of learning have such sound common sense as is quite common among the illiterate.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
Education
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Learning
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Common Sense
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Criticism
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Human Development
5.
“It takes place, by and large, with the same sort of necessity as a tree brings forth fruit, and demands of the world no more than a soil on which the individual can flourish.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
Growth
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Individuality
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Necessity
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Life Cycle
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Human Development
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“The most dangerous condition for a man or a nation is when his intellectual side is more developed than his spiritual".”
Arthur Conan Doyle
Intellect
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Spirituality
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Balance
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Danger
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Human Development
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“Real progress is progress in charity, all other advances being secondary thereto.”
Aldous Huxley
Progress
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Charity
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Priorities
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Human Development
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Social Improvement
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Moral Philosophy
8.
“We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.”
Aldous Huxley
Childhood
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Genius
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Creativity
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Potential
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Age
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Human Development
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“Compared to other animals, we humans enter the world remarkably weak and helpless. We remain relatively weak for many years before we can truly operate on our own.”
Robert Greene
Human Development
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Dependency Strategy
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Self-growth
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Leadership
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Evolution
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Strength
10.
“How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!”
Albert Camus
Manhood And Struggle
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Existential Challenge
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Human Development
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Manhood
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Struggle
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Development
11.
“The mind has grown to its present state of consciousness as an acorn grows into an oak, or as saurians developed into mammals.”
Carl Jung
Mind Evolution
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Consciousness
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Growth
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Nature Analogy
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Human Development
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Spiritual Insight
12.
“Apparently the most permanent of the dispositions of the human psyche are those that derive from the fact that, of all animals, we remain the longest at the mother breast.”
Joseph Campbell
Psyche
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Nature
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Attachment
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Motherhood
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Human Development
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Psychology
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“Human beings are born too soon; they are unfinished, unready as yet to meet the world. Consequently, their whole defense from a universe of dangers is the mother, under whose protection the intra-uterine period is prolonged.”
Joseph Campbell
Human Development
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Maternal Protection
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Human
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Development
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Maternal
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Protection
14.
“The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.”
Victor Hugo
Revolution And Progress
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Social Change
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Human Evolution
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Political Struggles
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Historical Shifts
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Human Development
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“The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.”
Aristotle
Moral Virtues
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Habit
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Nature
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Ethics
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Human Development
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“Knowledge is prior to any particular knowledge, and exists not in the previous state of the individual, but of the race. It is potential, not actual, and can only be appropriated by strenuous exertion.”
Plato
Knowledge Potential
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Intellectual Growth
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Human Development
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Effort Required
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Evolutionary Thought
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“By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities.”
Socrates
Community Planning
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Urban Wisdom
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Social Harmony
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City Beauty
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Human Development
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