Development Quotes

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One of the most serious human defects in all ages is procrastination, an unwillingness to accept personal responsibilities now. Men came to earth consciously to… — Spencer W. Kimball
The calculus was the first achievement of modern mathematics and it is difficult to overestimate its importance. I think it defines more unequivocally than anything… — John von Neumann
The development of a tree depends on where it is planted. — Edward Joyner
We are paying for and even submitting to the dictates of an ever increasing, unceasingly spawning class of human beings who never should have been… — Margaret Sanger
The development of a love of medium and a responsibility for one's own pictures is an overall goal. — Minor White
The development occurs through reciprocal give-and-take, the teacher taking but not being afraid also to give. — John Dewey
The newspapers do little better. Their coverage of nonhuman animals is dominated by "human interest" events like the birth of a baby gorilla at the… — Peter Singer
While we teach knowledge, we are losing that teaching which is the most important one for human development: the teaching which can only be given… — Erich Fromm
We should all be aware of the fact that when revolutionary - not evolutionary - changes come, things can get even worse. The intelligentsia should… — Vladimir Putin
The aim of education should not be to teach how to use human energies to improve the environment, for we are finally beginning to realize… — Maria Montessori
The development of faith in the Lord is an individual matter. Repentance is also an individual matter. Only as an individual can one be baptized… — Russell M. Nelson
There is no greater crime than to stand between a man and his development; to take any law or institution and put it around him… — Henry Ward Beecher
There can be no real growth without healthy populations. No sustainable development without tackling disease and malnutrition. No international security without assisting crisis-ridden countries. And… — Gro Harlem Brundtland
Contemporary political theorists continue this type of thinking about democracy by arguing that the development of "public judgment" among regular citizens should be made the… — Kevin Mattson
We have allowed corporations to decide the fate of the cities. We hardly speak of democratic development. — Glenn Ford
Some of the most serious fallacies of traditional economics have been due to confusion between optimum and equilibrium conditions; the apparent influence of Dr. Pangloss… — Sir John Richard Hicks
The solution was eventually found by Johannes Gutenberg, who made the breakthrough that finally established printing as the communication technology of the future. Similar ideas… — Alister E. McGrath
The socialism of centralised state control of industry and production, is dead. It misunderstood the nature and development of a modern market economy. It failed… — Tony Blair
Darwin's greatest achievement was to show that the appearance of purpose, planning, teleology (design), and intentionality in the origin and development of human and animal… — John Searle
We still have a great amount of work to do in social development, including resolving one of the biggest challenges we face in this area,… — Vladimir Putin

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