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The invention of the concept of sustainable human development and that of so-called human security, as opposed to territorial security of nation- states, and its promotion by the UN is in clear contradiction to all that we, the Group of 77, and the UN Charter itself consider inalienable, namely national sovereignty and security.

Communism--the first expression of the social nature--is the first term of social development--the thesis; property, the reverse of communism, is the second term--the antithesis. When we have discovered the third term, the synthesis, we shall have the required solution.

Justice is a faculty that may be developed. This development is what constitutes the education of the human race.

I'm working on a project called Lemons, produced by Killer Films. The director has a great perspective on character development.

Without full awareness of breathing, there can be no development of meditative stability and understanding.

The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa's major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.

Why does everyone take for granted that we don't learn to grow arms, but rather, are designed to grow arms? Similarly, we should conclude that in the case of the development of moral systems; there's a biological endowment which in effect requires us to develop a system of moral judgment and a theory of justice, if you like, that in fact has detailed applicability over an enormous range.

The whole infrastructure of air travel was, and is, part of government policy. It is not a natural development of a free economic system - at least not in the way that is claimed. The same is true of the roads, of course.

A regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development.

Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the critical awareness of the ground rules of society. The amateur can afford to loose.

Econometrics may be defined as the quantitative analysis of actual economic phenomena based on the concurrent development of theory and observation, related by appropriate methods of inference.

Capitalism, as practiced, is a financially profitable, non-sustainable aberration in human development.

That's the nice thing about doing stand-up. There's no development, you just go out there and get an immediate response as to whether something is good or bad. Getting a laugh is the best measure of how well you're doing.

Before the development of tourism, travel was conceived to be like study, and it's fruits were considered to be the adornment of the mind and the formation of the judgment.

Thanks to our cinctures and corsets we have succeeded in making an artificial being out of woman. She is an anomaly, and Nature herself, obedient to the laws of heredity, aids us in complicating and enervating her. We carefully keep her in a state of nervous weakness and muscular inferiority, and in guarding her from fatigue, we take away from her possibilities of development. Thus modeled on a bizarre ideal of slenderness to which, strangely enough, we continue to adhere, our women have nothing in common with us, and this, perhaps, may not be without grave moral and social disadvantages.

This is what evolution means--ordered progress; development from poorer to richer, from lower to higher, from less to greater--progress. In the material universe, progress to higher forms; in the moral universe, progress to higher life.

I'm, like, the biggest fan ever of 'Arrested Development.' To be a part of it is incredible. Same goes for 'Parenthood.

Arrested Development never felt safe. Even the first season, we did thirteen episodes, and we thought we'd never do a back nine. So I never thought in a million years we'd get to make three seasons. I was happy we got that far. I thought it was really good, and I'm really proud of it. I don't think we made a bad episode.

If it is presumed that the Kenyans will democratise in order to eat the peanuts of development assistance from the European Union... it would be a big mistake

Passenger rail development takes time, but good things come to those who are patient and stay the course.

China surely must be interested in a more stable, non-antagonistic relationship with the African continent precisely because of its own needs and therefore has to say: in our own interest, as China, it is necessary that we participate in the process of development of the African continent.

The healthiest companies are always characterized by organic talent development.

Anthropocentrism, regarding human kind as the very center and pinnacle of existence, is a disease of arrested development.

When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development

The priority for my government is that there will be development for everyone, equally.

Ideas alone can be works of art; they are in a chain of development that may eventually find some form. All ideas need not be made physical.

You can be an extreme materialist, thinking that economic development ultimately determines everything; then you are truly ideological.

We all have our moments. But you can switch it around. Then you've got the activist type who bases their decisions in the development of a character on what it symbolizes to society - what the ethical code is.

Most certainly, some planets are not inhabited, but others are, and among these there must exist life under all conditions and phases of development.

It is, indeed, perhaps the greatest prospect of humanistic studies to contribute through an increasing knowledge of the history of cultural development to that gradual removal of prejudices which is the common aim of all science.

The very metaphor Paul chooses for this decisive moment in his argument shows that what he has in mind is not the unmaking of creation or simply its steady development, but the drastic and dramatic birth of new creation from the womb of the old.

I was a close observer of the developments in molecular biology.

Premature development of the powers of both mind and body leads to an early grave.

I keep on having ideas and developments. Some happen and some don't, but I still always have a way of telling a story.

When we have four or five players out it's very difficult to get any continuity at this stage in our development. If I pull the blanket over my head my feet get cold, and if I push it over my feet my head gets cold.

Don't neglect your critical faculties. Remember that God is a rational God, who has made us in His own image. God invites and expects us to explore His double revelation, in nature and Scripture, with the minds He has given us, and to go on in the development of a Christian mind to apply His marvellous revealed truth to every aspect of the modern and post-modern world.

My definition of economic development is economic growth.

God does not relish our sufferings, but He delights in our development.

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.

What pleases me most is that sustainable development is on almost everybody's agenda now.

The artist is a spectator, indifferent or impassioned, at the birth of his work, and observes the phases of its development.

I was really just a hard-core geek, if you will, in 1996, and was building websites as a hobby. I started doing a lot of web design and development and built my first website on the now-defunct GeoCities platform.

The importance of the river cannot be overstated in the history of the country, or the development of the nation.

If a child finds no stimuli for the activities which would contribute to his development, he is attracted simply to 'things' and desires to posses them.

Red RodsBefore elaborating any system of education, we must therefore create a favorable environment that will encourage the flowering of a child's natural gifts. All that is needed is to remove the obstacles. And this should be the basis of, and point of departure for, all future education. The first thing to be done, therefore, is to discover the true nature of a child and then assist him in his normal development.

For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?

The word education must not be understood in the sense of teaching but of assisting the psychological development of the child.

Watching a child makes it obvious that the development of his mind comes through his movements.

Two things are necessary, the development of individuality and the participation of the individual in a truly social life.

A child's character develops in accordance with the obstacles he has encountered... or the freedom favoring his development that he has enjoyed.

The child is endowed with unknown powers, which can guide us to a radiant future. If what we really want is a new world, then education must take as its aim the development of these hidden possibilities.

The development of the individual can be described as a succession of new births at consecutively higher levels.

The development of the mind comes through movement

Only through freedom and environmental experience is it practically possible for human development to occur.

The first essential for the child’s development is concentration. The child who concentrates is immensely happy.

To ensure continuing prosperity in the global economy, nothing is more important than the development and application of knowledge and skills.

Belief, thus, in the supernatural, great as are the services which it rendered in the early stages of human development, cannot be considered to be any longer required, either for enabling us to know what is right and wrong in social morality, or for supplying us with motives to do right and to abstain from wrong.

In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to himself, and is therefore capable of being more valuable to others. . . .

In science fiction a fantastic event or development is considered rationally.

I am disabled, so I can't travel, and I have not been to any development meetings, but Gary and the others affiliated with the film keep me updated on everything.

The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.

My present and most fixed opinion regarding the nature of alcoholic fermentation is this: The chemical act of fermentation is essentially a phenomenon correlative with a vital act, beginning and ending with the latter. I believe that there is never any alcoholic fermentation without their being simultaneously the organization, development, multiplication of the globules, or the pursued, continued life of globules which are already formed.

No sustainable development, environmental harmony or lasting security will happen if we are unable to eradicate hunger and extreme inequality

In an adequate social order, the untalented should be able to acquire a sense of usefulness and of growth without interfering with the development of talent around them

A geometry implies the heterogeneity of locus, namely that there is a locus of the Other. Regarding this locus of the Other, of one sex as Other, as absolute Other, what does the most recent development in topology allow us to posit?

According to the International Institute for Environment and Development, the annual amount spent globally on advertising aimed at increasing consumption topped $430 billion in 1998.Consumer capitalism is dedicated to the proposition that production is good in itself, no matter what is produced. The net effect is the massive production of absurd, empty and useless items which are nevertheless utterly serious since we earn our living from them, and dedicate our leisure time to them.

When biological technology becomes further advanced, human beings as we know them, will become a modified species. If we as human beings fail to include the possibility of this development in our overall, social evolution we will witness the decline of our species

My own conclusion is that history is simply social development along the lines of weakest resistance, and that in most cases the line of weakest resistance is found as unconsciously by society as by water.

The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.

Enterprise Washington is economic development in areas of high unemployment around the state of Washington.

The most treasured and sacred moments of our lives are those filled with the spirit of love. The greater the measure of our love, the greater is our joy. In the end, the development of such love is the true measure of success in life.

There is another method of obtaining money... It does not presuppose the existence of accumulated results of previous development, and hence may be considered as the only one which is available in strict logic. This method of obtaining money is the creation of purchasing power by banks. The form it takes is immaterial.

Without economic development, any potential for political openness and freedom will be questionable.

Lunar mining is absolutely critical for the development of fusion sources. I'm a very strong proponent of the development of nuclear power, of fusion power.

Food prices are often kept artificially high. The result is that the Millennium Development Goals set out by the United Nations at the start of the new millennium are not being reached. Fine words have not yet been turned into deeds.

Development must be such that it positively transforms the lives of the common people.

Their thought is India is a beehive (Madhumakhi Ka Chhata) but our thought is India is our Mother (Maata). Their thought is poverty is a state of mind, our thought is that the poor are manifestation of Almighty. Their thought is to divide and rule, our thought is to integrate and do development. Their soch is Vanshvaad, our soch is Rashtravaad. They say Rajneeti is everything, we say Rashtraneeti is everything. Your thought is to save the chair, our thought is to save the nation.

I have always believed in development over votebank politics.

Our Matru Shakti is our pride. Women empowerment is very crucial to our development.

The more we give importance to skill development, the more competent will be our youth.

As India will complete 75 years of Independence in the year 2022, let's work towards Surajya & a nation where every section of society is developed.

We have set out to bring a difference in your lives, to bring smiles back on your face, to fulfil your dreams. We want to make such an India.

A state in India will have more traders than perhaps a European nation. Trade is a great way to integrate people.

Urbanisation is not a crisis but an opportunity, seeing it as a crisis is wrong. And not just villages, we want everyone to get opportunities wherever they are staying. Aatma gaav ki ho aur suvidha sheher ki ho, this is what we believe.

Do you share my belief in Swami Vivekananda's dream that India will be a Jagad Guru once again? I see no reason for India to be left behind.

We want to change the identity of Delhi from Generator Capital to Power Generation Capital.

Our mission is skill development. There can be no development with a satiated system.

I have come with one medicinal herb that I am offering as a remedy to India's problems. And that medicinal herb is 'development'.

We want to invite the world to Make in India, make India as the base for manufacturing electronic goods.

Development is the solution to all problems. All other types of caste, communal and dynasty politics will not do good.

NDA not only stands for National Democratic Alliance but is also the National Development Alliance.

Reading becomes the fuel for development.

21st century is the century of knowledge and the world has always looked at India whenever knowledge finds prominence. Emergence of knowledge society is no more a slogan but has become a reality. Knowledge will be the fountainhead of all the activities that happen in human development.

Mere good governance is not enough; it has to be pro-people and pro-active. Good governance is putting people at the center of development process.

Gujarat is all about Trade with Tradition, Commerce with Culture, Enterprise with Entertainment and Development with Disaster management.

Good governance is treating development as a mass movement in order to see that fruits of development reach the poor and the downtrodden.

It has been Gujarat's strength to do development with Jan Bhagidari.

Development should be a mass movement. We need to integrate the people and make it a mass movement.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee ji gave the mantra- Insaniyat, Jamhooriyat, Kashmiriyat. He based Jammu and Kashmir's development on this, and we need to take it ahead.

Divide and rule is the way Congress does their politics while we say let's unite and do development.