Developing Quotes - Page 16

• It is not so much the United States that is trying to push the European Union in one direction or another, it is developing nations as a whole that are pushing the United States and Europe to open their markets a little more.

  Pascal Lamy

  One Direction, Europe, Trying

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• Real morality is not the product of fearing a spanking. But what does fundamentalist hell-belief encourage? It retards any developing moral judgment by freezing moral maturity right at the most primitive, most childish, stage: the fear of retribution-and fundamentalism threatens one hell of a spanking.

  Robert M. Price

  Real, Maturity, Doe

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• The scientific excitement in comparing theory with data, and developing some understanding of global changes that are occurring, is what makes all the other stuff worth it.

  James Hansen

  Data, Understanding, Stuff

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• The green revolution has an entirely different meaning to most people in the affluent nations of the privileged world than to those in the developing nations of the forgotten world.

  Norman Borlaug

  Agriculture, People, Different

  Norman Ernest Borlaug (1971). “Mankind and Civilization at Another Crossroad”

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• The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations, where most of the people, comprising more than fifty percent of the total world population, live in poverty, with hunger as a constant companion and fear of famine a continual menace.

  Norman Borlaug

  People, Population, World

  "The Green Revolution, Peace, and Humanity". Norman Borlaug's Nobel lecture in the auditorium of the Nobel Institute, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1970.

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• Some of the environmental lobbyists of the western nations are the salt of the earth, but many of them are elitists. They have never experienced the physical sensation of hunger. They do their lobbying from comfortable office suites in Washington or Brussels. If they lived just one month amid the misery of the developing world, as I have for fifty years, they would be crying out for tractors, and fertilizer, and irrigation canals, and be outraged that fashionable elitists back home were trying to deny them these things.

  Norman Borlaug

  Home, Years, Office

  Interview with Gregg Easterbrook, The Atlantic Monthly, January 1997.

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• During the past three years spectacular progress has been made in increasing wheat, rice, and maize production in several of the most populous developing countries of southern Asia, where widespread famine appeared inevitable only five years ago

  Norman Borlaug

  Country, Past, Years

  Norman Ernest Borlaug (1971). “Mankind and Civilization at Another Crossroad”

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• Fair Trade is a market-based, entrepreneurial response to business as usual: it helps third-word farmers developing direct market access as well as the organizational and management capacity to add value to their products and take them directly to the global market. Direct trade, a fair price, access to capital and local capacity-building, which are the core strategies of this model, have been successfully building farmers' incomes and self-reliance for more than 50 years.

  Paul Rice

  Self, Years, Entrepreneur

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• How can the oppressed, as divided, unauthentic beings, participate in developing the pedagogy of their liberation? Only as they discover themselves to be 'hosts' of the oppressor can they contribute to the midwifery of their liberating pedagogy. As long as they live in the duality in which to be is to be like and to be like is to be like the oppressor, this contribution is impossible. The pedagogy of the oppressed is an instrument for their critical discovery that both they and their oppressors are manifestations of dehumanization.

  Paulo Freire

  Discovery, Long, Impossible

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.48, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• I am proud to represent these men and women who empower people in developing nations and promote the Peace Corps mission of peace and friendship. These volunteers are making major strides to improve the lives of people and communities around the world.

  Kenny Marchant

  Friendship, Men, People

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• The only hope for developing a new civilization is to accept responsibility for improving our lives through knowledge, understanding, and a deeper comprehension of humanity’s relationship to natural processes of evolution. Our future is determined by effort we put forth to achieve this transition.

  Jacque Fresco

  Responsibility, Civilization, Effort

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• The coward’s fear of death stems in large part from his incapacity to love anything but his own body. The inability to participate in others’ lives stands in the way of his developing any inner resources sufficient to overcome the terror of death. — J. Glenn Gary, The Warriors

  Sebastian Junger

  Warrior, Coward, Overcoming

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• While maintaining our nuclear potential at the proper level, we need to devote more attention to developing the entire range of means of information warfare

  Boris Yeltsin

  Mean, Warfare, Needs

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• Bopha, Sandy, floods in Pakistan, droughts in China… How many reports from the likes of the World Bank, NASA and the International Energy Agency will it take? How many preventable catastrophes until our leaders realize that climate change will not be solved by nice speeches and empty promises? Countries like Canada and the U.S. have promised to reduce their greenhouse gas pollution and provide adequate financial support for developing countries, they have so far failed on both counts.

  Steven Guilbeault

  Country, Nice, Agency

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• Developing a cheerful disposition can permit an atmosphere wherein one's spirit can be nurtured and encouraged to blossom and bear fruit. Being pessimistic and negative about our experiences will not enhance the quality of our lives. A determination to be of good cheer can help us and those around us to enjoy life more fully.

  Barbara W. Winder

  Happiness, Determination, Cheer

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• An essential aspect of maturing is developing the ability to take increasing responsibility for our own lives—to become increasingly self-directed

  Malcolm Knowles

  Responsibility, Self, Essentials

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• Experts now talk about the ‘nutrition transition’, in which populations in developing countries move straight from malnourishment to obesity.

  Damian Thompson

  Country, Moving, Transition

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• The domination of western values, beliefs and way of life has angered many from the east and in developing countries.

  Silvia Cartwright

  Country, Western Values, East

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• We in the west are seen as godless, as greedy and as uncaring about the suffering of those in the developing world.

  Silvia Cartwright

  Suffering, World, West

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• I am the father of a 9 year-old son whose descent into the world of autism began at the age of 7 months old after receiving numerous vaccinations in a single day; the same story that is told by thousands of other parents of children throughout the country whose healthy, normally developing children have become autistic after vaccinations.

  Rick Rollens

  Country, Children, Father

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• Civic engagement means working to make a difference in the civic life of our communities and developing the combination of knowledge, skills, values and motivation to make that difference. It means promoting the quality of life in a community, through both political and non-political processes.

  Thomas Ehrlich

  Motivation, Mean, Skills

  Thomas Ehrlich (2000). “Civic Responsibility and Higher Education”, p.6, Greenwood Publishing Group

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• I'm very confident that the solutions that we are developing are going to be effective not only in application in Iraq, but also will be very helpful for potential homeland security situations as well.

  Geoff Davis

  Iraq, Helpful, Situation

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• With few exceptions, democracy has not brought good government to new developing countries. What Asians value may not necessarily be what Americans or Europeans value. Westerners value the freedoms and liberties of the individual. As an Asian of Chinese cultural backround, my values are for a government which is honest, effective and efficient.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Country, Honesty, Freedom

  "Democracy, Human Rights and the Realities". Speech in Tokyo, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 1992.

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• But isn't it time for Christians to admit that we should reject bargains if they are gained by the exploitation of the poorest of the poor in developing countries?

  Tony Campolo

  Christian, Country, Developing Countries

  Tony Campolo (2011). “Red Letter Christians: A Citizen's Guide to Faith and Politics”, p.118, Baker Books

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• Jazz is so difficult. A lot of people think once they've learned these licks they can get up and play them for the rest of their life. But that's not being truthful to the music 'cause it's not developing. Cats you hear that don't make no mistakes? They ain't trying to do nothing. everything they hear is on the mark, but they've played it so many times... I've built a whole career out of making mistakes!

  Lester Bowie

  Mistake, Cat, Thinking

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