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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."


"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."


"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."


"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."


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


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


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


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


"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."


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


"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."


"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."


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


"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."


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


"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."


"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."


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


"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."


"I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development."


"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."


"To develop the person inside you is to pay attention and develop life within yourself."


"It is incumbent on us to facilitate the development of a market structure that best assures that these changes benefit the U.S. securities markets as a whole."


"One of Alaska's strengths is our pioneer role in environmentally sensitive development."


"Hence the same instant which killed the animals froze the country where they lived. This event was sudden, instantaneous, without any gradual 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 not many males, black or white, who wish to get involved with a woman who's committed to her own development."


"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."


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


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


"It's vital that we help them get the right start, nurture their development and provide for their well-being."


"The WTO has one of the most impressive records in global economic governance, by promoting trade liberalisation and economic 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."


"Under the process of ongoing globalization, advantages are, in the main, created for a minority of countries and development centres as well as powerful transnational companies."


"I think in the future we need to look at our youth department to provide more players for the first team think it is important for a club to have a good amount of players that have roots with the club and region."


"A bird is born knowing how to fly, but has to learn to conquer the skies."


"Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves."


"To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction."


"I am most proud of the development of the characters as personalities that game players could relate to and care about."


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


"Anarchists prepare for social revolution and use every means- speech, writing, or deed, whichever is more to the point - to accelerate revolutionary development."


"The individual always realizes only one of the possibilities in its development, which could always have taken a different turning whenever it has to make an important decision."


"A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention."


"The Prime Minister of India, at a meeting that I co-chaired a few months ago, stated that any development that is not sustainable is not development."
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