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“For the first time ever we are capable of removing abject poverty, illiteracy and the diseases of poverty from the human condition. The current intensification of global economic integration has demonstrated that there is enough knowledge, technology and capital to bring development to all the people of the world.”

People World Firsts Humans Enough Poverty Technology Economic Conditions Development Disease Capable First Time Currents Human Condition Integration Illiteracy Economic Integration

Author:Clare Short

“We have reached the end of problem solving as a mode of inquiry capable of inspiring, mobilizing, and sustaining human system change. The future of Organization Development belongs to methods that affirm, compel, and accelerate anticipatory learning involving larger and larger levels of collectivity.”

Humans Ends Problem Levels Development Capable Organization Method Problem Solving Inquiry Involving Sustaining Accelerate Collectivity Systems Change

Author:David Cooperrider

“While I complain of being able to glimpse no more than the shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is taking shape at this very moment, since I have not reached the stage of development at which I would be capable of perceiving it. A few hundred years hence, in this same place, another traveller, as despairing as myself, will mourn the disappearance of what I might have seen, but failed to see.”

Years May Moments Reality Might Would Be Able Past Stage Development Shapes Capable Hundred Shadow Complaining Glimpse Mourn Traveller Disappearance Insensitive Stages Of Development

Book:Tristes Tropiques

Source: Tristes Tropiques

“The industrial economy which divides society absolutely into two portions, the payers of wages and the receivers of them, the first counted by thousands and the last by millions, is neither fit for, nor capable of, indefinite duration: and the possibility of changing this system for one of combination without dependence, and unity of interest instead of organized hostility, depends altogether upon the future developments of the Partnership principle.”

Source: Principles of political economy with some of their applications to social philosophy

“Everybody in the world is capable of democratic development. Some people in the world are unlucky enough to get stuck with really bad political leadership and with really bad political institutions.”

People World Enough Political Development Capable Institutions Democratic Stuck Unlucky Political Institutions Political Leadership

Author:Condoleezza Rice

“In the course of waging that war, the people of Canada had shown that it was possible for them to maintain nearly a million men in uniform and at the same time expand all the facilities for production within Canada at an unprecedented speed, including building industries which had never existed in Canada before... and by and large the cost of production in Canada compared favourable with the cost of production anywhere else among the Allies... All of this was accomplished without any foreign investment, without and foreign loans... We were quite capable of self-development.”

“The development of the Vertebrate proceeds from an axis upward, in two layers, which coalesce at the edges, and also downward, in two layers, which likewise coalesce at the edges. Thus two main tubes are formed, one above the other. During the formation of these, the embryo separates into strata, so that the two main tubes are composed of subordinate tubes which enclose each other as fundamental organs, and are capable of developing into all the organs.”

Two Development Capable Fundamentals Edges Developing Organs Layers Formation Tubes Subordinates Axes Embryos Vertebrates

Author:Karl Ernst von Baer

“Humanity today is rightly concerned about the ecological balance of tomorrow. It is important for assessments in this regard to be carried out prudently, in dialogue with experts and people of wisdom, uninhibited by ideological pressure to draw hasty conclusions, and above all with the aim of reaching agreement on a model of sustainable development capable of ensuring the well-being of all while respecting environmental balances.”

“I believe in plot, in development of character, in the effect of the passage of time, in a good story - better than something you might find in the newspaper. And I believe a novel should be as complicated and involved as you're capable of making it.”

Should Believe Character Stories Might I Believe Novel Effects Development Involved Capable I Believe In Complicated Newspapers Plot Passages Good Story Passage Of Time

Author:John Irving

“Sri Ramakrishna is far greater than the disciples understand him to be. He is the embodiment of infinite spiritual ideas capable of development in infinite ways....One glance of his gracious eyes can create a hundred thousand Vivekanandas at this instant. If he chooses now, instead, to work through me, making me his instrument, I can only bow to his will.”

Ifs Way I Can Ideas Eye Spiritual Greater Development Thousand Capable Hundred Infinite Instruments Instant Bows Disciple Glances Gracious Embodiment Vivekananda

Author:Swami Vivekananda

“The development of artificial intelligence may well imply that man will relinquish his intellectual supremacy in favor of thinking machines. With oceans of time available for future innovation, there seems to be no reason why machines cannot achieve and surpass anything of which the human brain is capable.”

Source: God and the New Physics

“Any species capable of producing, at this earliest, juvenile stage of its development... the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, cannot be all bad.”

Stage Development Capable Species Juvenile

Author:Lewis Thomas

“People are no longer primarily in opposition, nor can they be said to be interacting, rather they are participating in this pool of common meaning which is capable of constant development and change.”

People Said Common Development Capable Constant Opposition Pool Participating Interacting

Book:Unfolding Meaning: A Weekend of Dialogue with David Bohm

Source: Unfolding Meaning: A Weekend of Dialogue with David Bohm

“...parents who work outside the home are still capable of giving their children a loving and secure childhood. Some data even suggest that having two parents working outside the home can be advantageous to a child's development, particularly for girls.”

Giving Children Stills Two Home Girl Parent Childhood Development Capable Secure Data

Book:Lean In for Graduates

Source: Lean In for Graduates