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We are concerned, not with the development of just one capacity, such as that of a mathematician, or a scientist, or a musician, but with the total development of the student as a human being.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti Life Ahead: On Learning and the Search for Meaning (1963)

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The only thing that really matters is that there be an action of goodness, love and intelligence in living.

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