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“The world's urban poor and the illiterate are going to be increasingly disadvantaged and are in danger of being left behind. The web has added a new dimension to the gap between the first world and the developing world. We have to start talking about a human right to connect.”

World Firsts Humans Left Poor Behinds Talking Danger Developing Dimensions Gaps Urban Left Behind Illiterate Disadvantaged

Author:Tim Berners-Lee

“Those in the developing world have so few rights - we take a lot for granted in the developed world.”

World Rights Granted Developing

Author:Annie Lennox

“Feminism is a word that I identify with. The term has become synonymous with vitriolic man-hating but it needs to come back to a place where both men and women can embrace it. It is particularly important for women in developing countries.”

Men Needs Important Country Hate Term Feminism Men And Women Embrace Developing Developing Countries Man Hating

Author:Annie Lennox

“My issue with the state of women became incredibly stimulated when I was visiting developing countries and it became obvious that women bore the brunt of so many things in society.”

Country States Issues Obvious Developing Bores Visiting Developing Countries

Author:Annie Lennox

“And why is our music called world music? I think people are being polite. What they want to say is that it's third world music. Like they use to call us under developed countries, now it has changed to developing countries, it's much more polite.”

People Thinking World Want Country Use Changed Thirds Developing Polite Third World Developing Countries World Music Developed Country Third World Countries Being Polite

Author:Miriam Makeba

“Developing a relationship with someone you admire, who can encourage you to reach your full potential, is something that everyone can benefit from.”

Benefits Admire Developing Full Potential

Author:Mandy Moore

“As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.”

Musician Developing Platforms Playing Music

Author:Van Morrison

“A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the power of gold.”

Force Gold Thirds Developing

Book:The Rise of the Dutch Republic: In three volumes

Source: The Rise of the Dutch Republic: In three volumes

“Well, my view before was a Western view, and I certainly understand marriage equality and civil rights, equal rights for all, but having visited developing nations and some of the poorest nations in the world, I realize how deep it goes and how much work really needs to be done to create equality for all.”

World Needs Wells Done Nations Realizing Views Rights Equal Western Civil Rights Developing Equal Rights Poorest Marriage Equality Equality For All

Author:Jason Mraz

“Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our domestic affairs and to bring about what they call regime change.”

World Country Taken Affair Developing Britain Regimes Interfere Regime Change

Author:Robert Mugabe

“Not everybody is created equal, and it's important for companies to identify those high potentials and treat them differently, accelerate their development and pay them more. That process is so incredibly important to developing first-class leadership in a company.”

Firsts Important Process Pay Company Class Development Equal Treats Developing First Class Accelerate

Author:Anne M. Mulcahy

“I think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It's the Silicon Valley way of doing business: You either move very quickly and you work hard to improve your product technology, or you get destroyed by some other company.”

Thinking Way Hard Moving Used Company Technology Products Hard Work Industry Destroyed Developing Valleys New Things Silicon Silicon Valley

Author:Elon Musk

“I can tell you one thing, Iran is closer to developing nuclear weapons today than it was a week ago, or a month ago or a year ago. It's just moving on with its efforts.”

Years I Can Today Moving Effort One Thing Week Months Weapons Years Ago Nuclear Developing Moving On Iran Nuclear Weapons Moved On

Author:Benjamin Netanyahu

“So I think we should stay focused on the real problem in the Middle East. It's not Israel. It's these dictatorships that are developing nuclear weapons with the specific goal of wiping Israel away.”

Thinking Should Real Problem Goal Middle Weapons Israel Focused East Nuclear Developing Middle East Nuclear Weapons Dictatorship Stay Focused Real Problems Specific Goals

Author:Benjamin Netanyahu

“Developing better people should be the number one goal for any coach when dealing with kids. In trying to develop better people, we are going to develop more and better pros.”

People Should Trying Kids Success Sports Goal Numbers Coaches Developing Hockey Inspirational Hockey

Author:Bobby Orr

“Very often when you see families it's all perfect and neat, and parenting isn't like that. You do have constant negotiations. Things are ever developing and ever changing, and you constantly have to evaluate how you deal with your kids.”

Kids Perfect Deals Constant Parenting Developing Negotiation Neat Evaluate

Author:Clive Owen

“One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.”

Trying Moments Motivational Violence Abuse Determine Self Confidence Developing Racist Positive Living Something Bigger Than Yourself

Book:You Can If You Think You Can

Source: You Can If You Think You Can

“The Iranian regime suppresses its own people as well as others in the region. It prevents peace by sponsoring terror globally. With the ultimate weapon that it is deceptively developing, the regime aims to gain hegemony over the entire Middle East and hold the world's economy hostage.”

People World Wells Economy Middle Weapons Gains Ultimate Aim Terror East Developing Regions Regimes Middle East Iranian Hostage Hegemony

Author:Shimon Peres

“Nato allies have been looking at various missile-defence options for some time. Nato itself is developing protections for our deployed troops.”

Has Beens Various Protection Developing Allies Troops Defence Missiles Nato

Author:Anders Fogh Rasmussen

“I am waiting for the right story to tell. Just like 'Man of Tai Chi' just seemed to be the right story to tell. So I'm looking for that. Because I really love directing. I love developing the story. I love actors. I love the cinema of it, the way that you tell a story visually.”

Men Way Stories Actors Waiting Developing Cinema Tai Chi

Author:Keanu Reeves

“My job ranges from creating the initial overall theme of the season, to developing fabrics and sketching to sampling and fitting.”

Jobs Creating Seasons Developing Range Theme Fabric Initials Fitting Sketching Sampling

Author:Nicole Richie

“Everyone loses touch with their aspiration, and we need the heart to return to what we really care about. All of this is based on developing greater lovingkindness and compassion.”

Needs Heart Care Loses Compassion Greater Return Developing Aspiration Lovingkindness

Author:Sharon Salzberg

“Debating clubs among boys are very useful, not only as affording pleasant meetings and interesting discussions, but also as serving for training grounds for developing the knowledge and the qualities that are needed in public life.”

Interesting Quality Boys Needed Training Meetings Clubs Developing Discussion Pleasant Serving Public Life Affording

Book:The Birth of New India: A Collection of Writings and Speeches on Indian Affairs

Source: The Birth of New India: A Collection of Writings and Speeches on Indian Affairs

“Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.”

Reason Earth Compassion Developing Sympathetic

Author:George Saunders

“Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.”

Inspirational Success Strength Weakness Stress Developing Eliminating

Author:Marilyn vos Savant

“I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written Just Kids had I not spent all of the 80s developing my craft as a writer.”

Thinking Kids Written Crafts Developing 80s Just Kids

Author:Patti Smith

“Language should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence.”

Should Language Developing Isolated Procedures

Book:Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings

Source: Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings

“Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.”

Love Stills Passion Work Commitment Intimacy Developing Fades Best Work True Passion

Author:Robert Sternberg

“Developing countries often have hypertrophied bureaucracies, requiring businesses to deal with enormous amounts of red tape.”

Country Deals Amount Red Enormous Developing Tape Bureaucracy Developing Countries Red Tape

Author:James Surowiecki

“Flexible supply chains are great for multinationals and consumers. But they erode already thin profit margins in developing-world factories and foster a pell-mell work environment in which getting the order out the door is the only thing that matters.”

“Making loans and fighting poverty are normally two of the least glamorous pursuits around, but put the two together and you have an economic innovation that has become not just popular but downright chic. The innovation - microfinance - involves making small loans to poor entrepreneurs, usually in developing countries.”

Two Country Together Fighting Poor Poverty Economic Innovation Entrepreneur Pursuit Developing Loan Glamorous Chic Developing Countries Microfinance

Author:James Surowiecki

“Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.”

Evil Taken Progress Developing Remedy

Book:William Howard Taft: Essential Writings and Addresses

Source: William Howard Taft: Essential Writings and Addresses

“I think the point about ActionAid is what it's asking people to do is engage with poor people in developing countries and understand what their lives are like and understand how the way we live our lives impacts on theirs.”

People Thinking Way Country Poor Our Lives Asking Impact Developing Engagement Poor People Developing Countries

Author:Emma Thompson

“It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly.”

Thinking World Done Developing Remarkable Gaps Tyrants Misconception Imbalance Ending Poverty

Author:Emma Thompson

“I often compare open source to science. To where science took this whole notion of developing ideas in the open and improving on other peoples' ideas and making it into what science is today and the incredible advances that we have had. And I compare that to witchcraft and alchemy, where openness was something you didn't do.”

Ideas Whole Today Source Notion Incredibles Developing Compare Openness Improving Witchcraft Alchemy Open Source

Author:Linus Torvalds

“I could never overstate the importance of a musician's need to develop his or her ear. Actually, I believe that developing a good 'inner ear' - the art of being able to decipher musical components solely through listening - is the most important element in becoming a good musician.”

Needs Believe Art Important Able I Believe Listening Becoming Elements Musician Ears Importance Musical Developing Components Decipher

Author:Steve Vai

“Global interdependence today means that economic disasters in developing countries could create a backlash on developed countries.”

Mean Country Today Economic Disaster Developing Interdependence Backlash Developing Countries Developed Country Bihar

Book:Towards a new world: defining moments

Source: Towards a new world: defining moments

“Amy Rapp, my producing partner, and I are drawn to character-driven material. We're developing and producing movies and TV, fiction and non-fiction, studio and independent, broadcast and cable, theatre, and web so our slate is really diverse.”

Character Fiction Materials Tvs Independent Studios Driven Theatre Partners Developing Diverse Cables Non Fiction Amy Slate Producing Movies

Author:Meredith Vieira

“A battle is developing between them' I say developing, because it's not yet on.”

Battle Developing

Author:Murray Walker

“Management is all about managing in the short term, while developing the plans for the long term.”

Inspirational Long Term Leadership Plans Management Developing Long Term Short Term

Author:Jack Welch

“My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too.”

People Inspirational Jobs Courses Water Talent Management Developing Weed Providing Gardener Nourishment Pulling Weeds

Author:Jack Welch

“America is the only developed nation that has a 2,000-mile border with a developing nation, and the government's refusal to control that border is why there are an estimated 460,000 illegal immigrants in Arizona and why the nation, sensibly insisting on first things first, resists 'comprehensive' immigration reform.”

“I believe Android will be stronger in the developing world than it is in the developed world.”

World Believe I Believe Stronger Developing Androids

Author:Fred Wilson

“I think I'm developing a kind of subconscious loathing of the word 'franchise.' I just think of something that's packaged, something you can buy on a shelf and is immediately disposable. I don't know. It's a really weird word for me.”

Thinking Knows Kind Developing Subconscious Shelves Loathing Disposable Really Weird

Author:Kate Winslet

“Although religion might be useful in developing a solid moral framework - and enforcing it - we can quite easily develop moral intuitions without relying on religion.”

Might Moral Intuition Developing Framework

Author:Robert Winston

“In today's world, it is shortsighted to think that infectious diseases cannot cross borders. By allowing developing countries access to generic drugs, we not only help improve health in those nations, we also help ourselves control these debilitating and often deadly diseases.”

“Health care can be made more affordable for the poor without requiring major new scientific developments, just the smart application of current technologies. We have seen a $25 incubator and diagnostic instruments that are built tough, cheap, and reusable for the developing world.”

World Made Care Poor Technology Development Majors Smart Tough Built Instruments Currents Developing Health Care Application Affordable

Author:Muhammad Yunus

“The developing world is full of entrepreneurs and visionaries, who with access to education, equity and credit would play a key role in developing the economic situations in their countries.”

World Country Play Situation Roles Economic Keys Entrepreneur Credit Access Developing Equity Visionaries Access To Education

Author:Muhammad Yunus

“Contrasting sharply, in the developing countries represented by India, Pakistan, and most of the countries in Asia and Africa, seventy to eighty percent of the population is engaged in agriculture, mostly at the subsistence level.”

Country Levels Percent India Population Developing Engaged Agriculture Asia Pakistan Seventies Eighty Developing Countries Subsistence India Pakistan

Author:Norman Borlaug

“Lead the people with administrative injunctions and put them in their place with penal law, and they will avoid punishments but will be without a sense of shame. Lead them with excellence and put them in their place through roles and ritual practices, and in addition to developing a sense of shame, they will order themselves harmoniously”

People Law Order Roles Practice Shame Excellence Profound Punishment Developing Ritual Administrative

Author:Confucius

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