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"This double burden of disease is rapidly putting a serious brake on the development efforts of many countries."
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"This double burden of disease is rapidly putting a serious brake on the development efforts of many countries."

"Since the reduction of risk factors is the scientific basis for primary prevention, the World Health Organization promotes the development of an integrated strategy for prevention of several diseases, rather than focusing on individual ones."

"More than ever before, there is a global understanding that long-term social, economic, and environmental development would be impossible without healthy families, communities, and countries."

"When public and private sectors combine intellectual and other resources, more can be achieved."

"During my nearly five years as director-general of WHO, high-level policymakers have increasingly recognized that health is central to sustainable development."

"The development of the food industry for both domestic and export markets relies on a regulatory framework that both protects the consumer and assures fair trading practices in food."
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"If a person refuses to develop his potential, it can lead to nervous or mental disorders, somatic diseases and personal degradation."

"There is an hidden energy in a child that works in all areas of growth and development."

"You must live a life of self-consciousness always."

"The years nineteen and twenty are a crucial stage in the maturation of character, and if you allow yourself to become warped when you're that age, it will cause you pain when you're older."

"The tallest trees sometimes grow from the smallest seeds."

"A continuous growth, a steady growth is a demand of life."

"For the development of India. the development of eastern India is essential"

"There is always the exceptional child, but the average tells us that the child is largely what the home has made him."

"The higher the proportion of adults with low literacy proficiency is, the slower the overall long-term GDP growth rate is."

"Walk and learn from the people that inspire you to do great things."
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