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Development Quotes


"The African Union has to act in order to put an end to armed conflicts that undermine the continent, to fight against the devastation caused by AIDS and other contagious diseases, to promote sustainable development of its member states."


"The Muslim world and its subset the countries of the Middle East have been left behind in the marathon of political, economic and human development. For that, there is a tendency to blame others as the primary cause."


"We need better coordination on the international side, just as they need better and more effective efforts on the Somali side. We have too many reconstruction and development assistance plans."


"We need to promote development that does not destroy our environment."


"The conclusion you can draw from these characteristics is that you have an uneven development of class activity and an uneven development of class consciousness in the working class."


"My own perception is that there are two tiers of countries, one, the original ASEAN, and then the new members. The new members are in various stages of development."


"The mass of workers, as yet non-Socialist, is retarded in its development towards Socialism."


"I have always regarded global development as a struggle between the forces of good and evil. Not to be simplified as a struggle between Jesus and Satan, since I do not consider that the process is restricted to our own sphere of culture."


"The necessity to conceptualise has to come very early on, and defining a vector of development for that film also at the beginning of the process will allow you much more freedom as you go along."


"The level of our educational development is high and serves as a strong basis for our future progress."


"Certainly, Africa accounts for only l % of world trade, and we cannot assure our development on our own."


"In Africa today, we recognise that trade and investment, and not aid, are pillars of development."


"You need a vanguard organization in order to overcome the dangerous potential brought about by the uneven development of class militancy and class consciousness."


"I wanted to feel that precision and control and then try to apply it to tele. That's what I've looked for in my gear development through the years, and today, tele is very precise, very high-performance."


"Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force its sap and stands confidence in the storms of spring without fear that after them may come no summer."


"Now that rock is turning 50, it's become classical in itself. It's interesting to see that development."


"We do have some assistance from the World Bank but not from the IMF. We are not borrowing yet, but we are considering, in the future, borrowing from the Kuwait Fund to support our infrastructure development."


"We do not have a budget support. We are now fully independent in terms of requirements, but we still have a need for development assistance separate from the budget. So all the economic aid we receive is for development assistance."


"In the case of Iraq, notwithstanding the violence there at the moment, the very fact that a hideous regime - responsible for genocide, for the use of chemical and biological weapons, aggression against two neighbors - has been removed in itself is a positive development."


"The distinction between the old and the new formulations consisting in the incorporation of the concept of the rate of chemical reactions is so great that it immediately asserted itself in the objective development of catalysis."


"There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion."


"In this context, the church supports and favors every effort today to seek the full development of the personality of all human beings, and to promote their fundamental rights, their dignity and liberty."


"I fully recognize and appreciate the many substantial contributions of black Americans and other minorities to the creation and preservation and development of our great nation."


"The current administration has made the decision to cut dollars going for community development block grants, for various incentives to bring cities back."


"My musical development stopped when Frank Sinatra died."



"As the new endogenous growth theory suggests, TFP growth is closely related to accumulation of the intangible capitals, such as human capital and research and development."


"Annexation is probably the most valuable tool a city has to ensure orderly growth and development."


"Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed."


"In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development."


"Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press."


"It may be easily shown, and is of no small significance, that the two great ideas of which the Anglo-Saxon is the exponent are having a fuller development in the United States than in Great Britain."


"By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being."


"I must therefore implore your indulgence for a pretty long and plain development of my views concerning that cause which the citizens of New York, and you particularly, gentlemen, honour with generous interest."


"The development of the comedy club industry destroyed the uniqueness and intimacy of the profession but it also created jobs for comics and bred some great performers."


"The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of the machine itself."


"I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay."


"Faced with this general consideration it will immediately be realized on inquiry into the particular position occupied within this general scheme by the scientific field of catalysis that it is in the first stages of its development."


"On daytime they continue to revisit a lot of the same stuff while nighttime does move on and show development."


"This young wine may have a lot of tannins now, but in five or 10 years it is going to be spectacular, despite the fact that right now it tastes like crude oil. You know this is how it is supposed to taste at this stage of development."


"Meanwhile, the Ice Storm was still in development, And that was something I really wanted to do, and frankly I don't think I was ready to do a big production like this."


"I support development and deployment of a limited national missile defense. Few if any of our duties surpass our obligation to provide for the common defense of our nation."


"Why did human development proceed at such different rates on different continents for the last 13,000 years?"


"I'm doing comedy development at National Lampoon."


"Regional exchange can be a source of growth and development, and of enhancing good governance."


"Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit."


"Our approach to economic development must be modern, focused and in tune with the global trend."


"I am convinced that the modular structure of the Mir will be the main trend in manned orbital stations development in the next century."


"The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the problems of development into bolder relief."


"We have seen... that, although England is by far the richest nation of Europe, we have already outstripped her in the race after wealth, and we have only begun the development of our vast resources."


"We must invest in infrastructure development and rebuilding communities to create jobs."
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