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Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

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You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.
An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money.
Investing in health will produce enormous benefits.
A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for sustainable development, especially in developing countries.
Contaminated food is a major cause of diarrhea, substantially contributing to malnutrition and killing about 2.2 million people each year, most of…
This is a historic moment in global public health, demonstrating the international will to tackle a threat to health head on.
With an annual investment of $66 billion by 2007, we can save 8 million lives each year.
In recognising the global problem posed by osteoporosis, WHO sees the need for a global strategy for prevention and control of osteoporosis,…
Intervention for the prevention and control of osteoporosis should comprise a combination of legislative action, educational measures, health service activities, media coverage,…
A cigarette is the only consumer product which when used as directed kills its consumer.
The climate challenge illustrates how we have to change. The developing countries need more support and opportunities to develop and use clean…
The diagnosis is clear, the science in unequivocal-it's completely immoral, even, to question now, on the basis of what we know, the…

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The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse. — Benjamin Franklin
When you are in the present without thinking, you are for the first time spiritual. — Rajneesh
True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears… — Seneca the Elder
It is called the real presence, not in an exclusive sense, as though other forms of presence were not real, but by… — Pope Paul VI
True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears… — Seneca the Younger
The more you expand your awareness, the more naturally you will be present without effort. — Deepak Chopra
The hardest thing is to live richly in the present without letting it be tainted out of fear for the future or… — Sylvia Plath
Empathy lies in our ability to be present without opinion. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own… — Gro Harlem Brundtland
We are surrounded by the absurd excess of the universe. By meaningless bulk, vastness without size, power without consequence. The stubborn iteration… — Jack Gilbert
To love in the sense of passion-love is the contrary of to live. It is an impoverishment of one's being, an askesis… — Denis de Rougemont
Without the power of intelligence there is no capacity for spiritual knowledge; and without spiritual knowledge we cannot have the faith from… — Maximus the Confessor

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