Developing Quotes - Page 18

• We shall not defeat any of the infectious diseases that plague the developing world until we have also won the battle for safe drinking water, sanitation, and basic health care.

  Kofi Annan

  Drinking, Water, Battle

  FaceBook post by Kofi Annan from Apr 07, 2017

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• By contrast with history, evolution is an unconscious process. Another, and perhaps a better way of putting it would be to say that evolution is a natural process, history a human one.... Insofar as we treat man as a part of nature--for instance in a biological survey of evolution--we are precisely not treating him as a historical being. As a historically developing being, he is set over against nature, both as a knower and as a doer.

  Owen Barfield

  Men, Historical, Would Be

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• You cannot immunize sick, malnourished children and expect them to get away with it. You'll kill far more children than would have died from natural infection...It needs to be appreciated that children in developing countries are at a much greater risk of complications from vaccination and from mercury toxicity...because poor nutrition, parasitic and bacterial infections and low birth weight.

  Archie Kalokerinos

  Country, Children, Sick

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• When you move as openness and softness of heart you’re moving in this life within your self in the same way that your being is. When you move as openness and softness of heart, you are all the way into the surface moving and growing, developing as oneness.

  John de Ruiter

  Moving, Heart, Self

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• A multi-polar world can not exist without recognising the status and participation of developing countries.

  Li Peng

  Country, World, Developing Countries

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• It is necessary, then, to give the child the possibility of developing according to the laws of his nature, so that he can become strong, and, having become strong, can do even more than we dared hope for him.

  Maria Montessori

  Strong, Children, Law

  Maria Montessori (1970). “The child in the family”, Contemporary Books

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• Is this Nation stating it cannot afford to spend an additional $600 million to help the developing nations of the world become strong and free and independentan amount less than this countrys annual outlay for lipstick, face cream, and chewing gum?

  John F. Kennedy

  Strong, Gum, World

  "Remarks at the dinner of the Protestant Council of the City of New York". November 8, 1963.

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• Artists reproduce themselves or each other, with wearisome iteration. But criticism is always moving on, and the critic is always developing.

  Oscar Wilde

  Moving, Artist, Criticism

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.390, University of Chicago Press

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• 150 people die every year from being hit by falling coconuts. Not to worry, drug makers are developing a vaccine.

  Jim Carrey

  Fall, Vaccines, Years

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• Work is taking the raw material of creation and developing it for the sake of others.

  Timothy Keller

  Raw Materials, Sake, Creation

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• In the new century, we should continue to work together to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the vast number of developing countries including China and India and promote the establishment of a just and equitable new international political and economic order.

  Li Peng

  Country, Rights, Order

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• The interesting thing is, while we die of diseases of affluence from eating all these fatty meats, our poor brethren in the developing world die of diseases of poverty, because the land is not used now to grow food grain for their families.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Land, Interesting, Poverty

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• Revolution is a drama of passion. We did not win the people over by appealing to reason but by developing hope, trust, fraternity.

  Mao Zedong

  Drama, Passion, Winning

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• When I left Africa in 1966 it seemed to me to be a place that was developing, going in a particular direction, and I don't think that is the case now. And it's a place where people still kid themselves - you know, in a few years this will happen or that will happen. Well, it's not going to happen. It's never going to happen.

  Paul Theroux

  Kids, Thinking, Years

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• Dad had a music store, and he'd often bring home comedy albums that I would listen to. I started listening to Bob Newhart and Bill Cosby, and developing taste. They really influenced my style of comedy.

  Billy Crystal

  Dad, Home, Style

  "Billy Crystal: My family values" by Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2013.

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• When we hold a photo negative up to the light all objects are reversed. Black is white, white is black. Moreover, the character lines of any face in the picture are not clear. Once placed into the developing solution, what photographers call "the latent image" is revealed in the print-darkness is turned to light; and, lo, we have a beautiful picture.

  Catherine Marshall

  Beautiful, Character, White

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• The primary object of a student of literature is to be delighted. His duty is to enjoy himself, his efforts should be directed to developing his faculty of appreciation.

  Lord David Cecil

  Appreciation, Effort, Literature

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• Where there are two Phd's in a developing country, one is head of state and the other is in exile.

  Samuel Hall Lord

  Country, Two, Developing Countries

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• For poets today or in any age, the choice is not between freedom on the one hand and abstruse French forms on the other. The choice is between the nullity and vanity of our first efforts, and the developing of a sense of idiom, form, structure, metre, rhythm, line - all the fundamental characteristics of this verbal art.

  James Fenton

  Art, Vanity, Hands

  "An Introduction to English Poetry". Book by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2002.

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• My idea at this time, which was slowly developing, was to create a comedie humaine with little people, average people - samples from every period in American life.

  Douglas Sirk

  Average, Ideas, People

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• I think that George Lucas' 'Star Wars' films are fantastic. What he's done, which I admire, is he has taken all the money and profit from those films and poured it into developing digital sound and surround sound, which we are using today.

  Peter Jackson

  Stars, War, Taken

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• I'm kind of getting more excited about developing my own stuff, or getting involved early in projects and doing my best to make things that I care about happen.

  Ellen Page

  Care, Stuff, Kind

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. March 31, 2011.

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• Music, especially as an adolescent, helps to build identity because that's when people start developing a sense of self. You can kind of tell based on what music a person listens to what kind of person they'll be pretty much for the rest of their life.

  Aloe Blacc

  Self, People, Identity

  "Q+A: Socially conscious crooner Aloe Blacc brings a little heart and soul to the Cosmopolitan". Interview with Andrea Domanick, lasvegassun.com. July 26, 2012.

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• Viewers can't expect TV to keep developing unless they make their wants known. And let's face it. The best way to make your wants known in this world is by 'beefing'.

  Bill Bixby

  World, Want, Way

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• Sanctification is the work of the Holy Spirit in us whereby our inner being is progressively changed, freeing us more and more from sinful traits and developing within us over time the virtues of Christlike character.

  Jerry Bridges

  Character, Spirit, Virtue

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “Growing Your Faith: How to Mature in Christ”, p.30, Tyndale House

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