“From the moment I stepped foot in Music City I have had a love affair with the people and burgeoning culinary scene. This city's long, highly-respected cultural history, coupled with the recent growth and development is inspiring. I could not be happier with my decision and I'm truly excited to call Nashville my home.” PeopleLongMomentsHomeGrowthDecisionCitiesFeetDevelopmentSceneAffairExcitedCulinaryLove AffairNashvilleMusic City Author:Maneet Chauhan
“Imagine discovering a continent so vast that it may have no end to its dimensions. Imagine a new world with more resources than all our future greed might exhaust, more opportunities than there will ever be entrepreneurs enough to exploit, and a peculiar kind of real estate that expands with development. Imagine a place where trespassers leave no footprints, where goods can be stolen infinite number of times and yet remain in the possession of their original owners, where business you never heard of can own the history of your personal affairs.” WorldKindMayRealEndsEnoughMightOpportunityNumbersImagineHeardDevelopmentResourcesInfiniteOriginalsEntrepreneurGreedAffairPossessionDimensionsOwnersGoodsOur FuturePeculiarNew WorldDiscoveringContinentsEstatesStolenExploitsFootprint Author:John Perry Barlow
“In 1953, the United States played a significant role in orchestrating the overthrow of Iran's popular prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh. The Eisenhower administration believed its actions were justified for strategic reasons, but the coup was clearly a setback for Iran's political development and it is easy to see now why many Iranians continue to resent this intervention by America in their internal affairs.” StatesReasonActionAmericaPoliticalEasyUnitedRolesUnited StatesDevelopmentAffairSignificantAdministrationMinistersInternalsIranPrimePrime MinisterJustifiedInterventionStrategicResentSetbackCoupsInternal Affairs Author:Madeleine Albright
“I know of nothing more significant than the awakening of men and women throughout our country to the desire to improve their houses. Call it what you will - awakening, development, American Renaissance - it is a most startling and promising condition of affairs.” KnowsMenCountryDesireHouseConditionsDevelopmentMen And WomenAffairAwakeningSignificantOur CountryRenaissance Book:The House in Good Taste Source: The House in Good Taste
“Is it what you call civilization that makes England flourish? Is it the universal development of the faculties of man that has rendered an island, almost unknown to the ancients, the arbiter of the world? Clearly not. It is the inhabitants that have done this. It is an affair of race.... All is race, there is no other truth.” MenWorldDoneRaceDevelopmentCivilizationUniversalEnglandAffairIslandsFacultyArbiter Book:Tancred: Or, The New Crusade Source: Tancred: Or, The New Crusade
“Education is character development, harmonious completion of human personality. But what the state accomplishes in this field is dull drill, extinction of natural feeling, narrowing of the spiritual field of vision, destruction of all the deeper elements of character in man. The state can train subjects...but it can never develop free men who take their affairs into their own hands; for independent thought is the greatest danger that it has to fear.” MenHumansStatesCharacterFeelingsHandsSpiritualNaturalVisionSubjectsDangerFieldsPersonalityDevelopmentElementsDestructionIndependentTrainAffairDeeperAccomplishDullExtinctionHarmoniousFree ManCompletionDrillsCharacter DevelopmentIndependent ThoughtHuman PersonalityNatural Feelings Author:Rudolf Rocker
“[CIA manipulating] has its roots in internal Pakistani affairs. It's a horrible development and phenomenon which goes back to radical Islamisation under Zia and taking away the long standing rights of people in the tribal areas [who were left largely alone].” PeopleLongLeftRightsDevelopmentAreasStandingRootsAffairHorribleRadicalInternalsPhenomenonCia Author:Noam Chomsky
“One of the great things about the United States is that when it comes to world affairs, the president obviously is the leader of the Executive Branch, the Commander-in-Chief, the spokesperson for the nation, but the influence and the work that we have is the result not just of the president, it is the result of countless interactions and arrangements and relationships between our military and other militaries, and our diplomats and other diplomats, the intelligence officers and development workers.” WorldStatesNationsPresidentUnitedResultsLeaderUnited StatesInfluenceMilitaryDevelopmentWorkersAffairGreat ThingsChiefsBranchesExecutivesOfficersInteractionArrangementsCommandersDiplomatsCommander In ChiefExecutive BranchWorld AffairsIntelligence Officers Author:Barack Obama
“For the US, the Kosovo War was a success because it encouraged the development of the Pentagon's 'Revolution in Military Affairs' (RMA). The war provided a test site for experimentation, and paved the way for emergence of what I call in Strategie de la deception 'the second deterrence'.” WayWarMilitaryRevolutionDevelopmentTestsAffairDeceptionSiteExperimentationEmergencePentagonKosovoDeterrence Author:Paul Virilio