Development Quotes

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You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition. — Gro Harlem Brundtland
A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for sustainable development, especially in developing countries. — Gro Harlem Brundtland
Roads get wider and busier and less friendly to pedestrians. And all of the development based around cars, like big sprawling shopping malls. Everything seems… — Bill Bryson
Governments of rich countries spend some $6bn of tax money a year on disaster relief and development aid overseas, while each new earthquake, famine or… — James Buchan
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years. — John Burroughs
Nowadays, the process of growth and development almost never seems to manage to create this subtle balance between the importance of the individual parts, and… — Christopher Alexander
Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God. — Samuel Butler
When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who… — Vince Cable
Haitians do not need development programs imposed on them by expatriates. Instead, they need help in developing as self-assured persons. — Tony Campolo
A Christian school should be a place where young men and young women go through a period of spiritual formation and development so that they… — Tony Campolo
Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible. — George Washington Carver
We want to be brothers and sisters. We want respect and equality. Simon Bolivar, our father, said a balanced world - a universe - a… — Hugo Chavez
Every new development, highway, railroad, steamship line, building operation, whether it be a drainage project in old Greece or a new water system in Peru,… — Walter Chrysler
If I lead the field in any way, it is in the area of curricula development, study guides and other teaching materials. — John Henrik Clarke
You cannot have development in today's world without partnering with the private sector. — Hillary Clinton
Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which… — B R Ambedkar
In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development. — B R Ambedkar
My brother was a fantastic cheerleader for my development as a musician. He was almost 10 years older than me and would really push me… — Tori Amos
Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building… — Kofi Annan
Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development. — Kofi Annan

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