Development Quotes

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...climate change is accelerating. It threatens our well being, our security, and our economic development. It will lead to uncontrollable risks and dramatic damage if… — Angela Merkel
All new schools...should be models for sustainable development: showing every child in the classroom and the playground how smart building and energy use can help… — Tony Blair
Serious development of the personality begins at the closet door. — William James
It is development, not poverty, that causes upheaval and terrorism. — Robert D. Kaplan
Usually, if you have a new idea, you very rarely break through to anything like recognizable development or implementation of that idea the first time… — Martin Fleischmann
Why does everyone take for granted that we don't learn to grow arms, but rather, are designed to grow arms? Similarly, we should conclude that… — Noam Chomsky
We will continue to deepen our engagement using every element of American power - diplomacy, military, economic development, the power of our values and our… — Barack Obama
There are three necessary elements in a story - exposition, development, and drama. Exposition we may illustrate as "John Fortescue was a solicitor in the… — Frank O'Connor
I have a feeling that art is something you do for yourself, and that any time you turn your decisions over to someone else you're… — William Stafford
Reading to children at night, responding to their smiles with a smile, returning their vocalizations with one of your own, touching them, holding them -… — T. Berry Brazelton
The essential role of the environment is still marginal in discussions about poverty. While we continue to debate these initiatives, environmental degradation, including the loss… — Wangari Maathai
Young people should be at the forefront of global change and innovation. Empowered, they can be key agents for development and peace. If, however, they… — Kofi Annan
Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development more than the financial burden… — King Hussein I
On the European Front the most important development of the past year has been the crushing offensive of the Great Armies of Russia... — Franklin D. Roosevelt
The fight against HIV/AIDS requires leadership from all parts of government - and it needs to go right to the top. AIDS is far more… — Kofi Annan
That the AIDS pandemic is threatening sustainable development in Africa only reinforces the reality that health is at the center of sustainable development. — Gro Harlem Brundtland
The beginning point at both conferences must be that everything is a woman's issue. That means racism in a woman's issue, just as is anti-Semitism,… — Charlotte Bunch
An enterprising person is one who comes across a pile of scrap metal and sees the making of a wonderful sculpture. An enterprising person is… — Jim Rohn
As the opportunity grows for unlimited growth and progress, the chances of failure increase. There is no such thing as a program that will provide… — Dean L. Larsen
I do not think one can assess a writer's motives without knowing something of his early development. His subject matter will be determined by the… — George Orwell

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