“The best places to live, work, and visit are those places that are willing to uphold their standards in the face of pressure to allow lowest common denominator development... Successful communities understand that when they say no to development that is contrary to the long-term health of their community, they will almost always get better development in its place.” LongFacesGrowthTermNatureCommunityCommonSuccessfulWillingDevelopmentSmartStandardsPressureContraryGet BetterLong TermConservationLowestPlaces To LiveBest PlaceCommon DenominatorLowest Common DenominatorSmart Growth Author:Ed McMahon
“An exploration of the challenges Korea faces in transforming its economy from a government-directed, low-cost producer to an innovative world economic power based on its own scientific and technological development.” WorldGovernmentFacesChallengesEconomyEconomicDevelopmentCostLowsProducersExplorationTechnologicalInnovativeKoreaTransformingEconomic PowerTechnological Development Author:Lewis M. Branscomb
“Fascism, in so far as it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace. It thus repudiates the doctrine of Pacifism - born of a renunciation of struggle and an act of cowardice in the face of sacrifice. War alone brings up to its highest tension all human energy and puts the stamp of nobility upon the people who have the courage to meet it.” BelieveHumansWarMomentsFacesPoliticalHumanityEnergyBornStruggleSacrificePossibilityDevelopmentHighestDoctrineTensionConsiderationFascismCowardicePerpetualStampsNobilityUtilityHave CourageRenunciationPacifism Author:Benito Mussolini
“When we think of globalization we are thinking in part of structures and institutions that have been developed over time and that have allowed us to become more interdependent and interrelated. But the development, the extraordinary development, of those structures and institutions has not fundamentally transformed our humanity. We are still those animals with fears and anxieties and insecurities in the face of death and dread and disappointment and disease.” ThinkingHas BeensStillsFacesHumanityAnimalDevelopmentDiseaseAnxietyInstitutionsStructureExtraordinaryDisappointmentInsecurityTransformedDreadGlobalization Author:Cornel West
“Can we disregard the growing phenomenon of "environmental refugees", people who are forced by the degradation of their natural habitat to forsake it - and often their possessions as well - in order to face the dangers and uncertainties of forced displacement? Can we remain impassive in the face of actual and potential conflicts involving access to natural resources? All these are issues with a profound impact on the exercise of human rights, such as the right to life, food, health and development.” PeopleHumansWellsFacesOrderNaturalIssuesGrowingRightsDangerDevelopmentExerciseConflictResourcesImpactProfoundEnvironmentalHuman RightsPossessionAccessUncertaintyPhenomenonSustainabilityRefugeeInvolvingDegradationDisregardNatural ResourcesForsakeHabitatRight To LifeDisplacementNatural Habitats Book:The Garden of God Source: The Garden of God
“We face a fundamental question which can be described as both ethical and ecological. How can accelerated development be prevented from turning against man? How can one prevent disasters that destroy the environment and threaten all forms of life, and how can the negative consequences that have already occurred be remedied?” MenFacesFormEnvironmentDevelopmentConsequenceNegativeFundamentalsEnvironmentalDisasterEthicalStewardshipEcologicalNegative Consequences Author:Pope John Paul II
“We have set out to bring a difference in your lives, to bring smiles back on your face, to fulfil your dreams. We want to make such an India.” WantDreamFacesDifferencesDevelopmentIndiaYour DreamsYour Face Author:Narendra Modi
“... the results are undefined, and we all know what 'undefined' means: it means it works during development, it works during testing, and it blows up in your most important customers' faces.” KnowsMeanImportantFacesResultsDevelopmentBlowCustomersTestingUndefined Author:Scott Meyers
“Pope Benedict XVI assumes leadership at a critical time in which the world's collective wisdom and leadership including that of the religious community is most important to face up to challenges of deepening poverty and under-development afflicting many people of the world.” PeopleWorldImportantFacesCommunityChallengesReligiousPovertyDevelopmentAssumingIncludingCriticalCollectivesPopeReligious CommunityCollective WisdomBenedict XviPope Benedict Author:Thabo Mbeki
“One time I completely thought I'd turned into a werewolf and was sure I could see hairs sprouting from my face. At those times I'd suddenly go very quiet and not talk to anyone, stunned from the developments, being a werewolf and all.” FacesHairDevelopmentQuietOne TimeWerewolfStunned Author:Beth Orton
“As Americans, we have shown ourselves to have the greatest military on the face of the planet, but we are not so very good at anticipating threats and appreciating just how difficult it is to build up stable democracies, to make the investments and sustainable development that we must as a nation if we are to attack the root causes of these sorts of instability.” IfsFacesNationsCausesDifficultDemocracyMilitaryPlanetsDevelopmentAppreciateRootsThreatInvestmentVery GoodStableSustainable DevelopmentInstabilityRoot CauseGreatest Military Author:Martin O'Malley
“Unfortunately, violence against women is not the only injustice women face globally; it is one of the many inequalities that impede the full development of socially excluded women globally.” FacesViolenceDevelopmentInjusticeInequalityViolence Against WomenExcludedStop Violence Against Women Author:Zainab Salbi
“If we had had time and the occasion to develop a new socialism in the GDR, socialism with a human face, with democracy, this might have been an example also to West Germany. The development would have run the other way.” IfsWayHumansHas BeensMightRunningFacesDemocracyExampleDevelopmentWestSocialismOccasionsGermanyMight Have BeenHuman FacesWest Germany Author:Stefan Heym
“The US is often the first to call for transparency and integrity in the reporting of other governments. It has never provided transparency or integrity in its reporting on the war in Iraq. It has downplayed the growth of the insurgency and other civil conflicts. It exaggerated progress in the development of Iraqi forces, and has reported meaningless macroecomic figures claiming 'progress' in the face of steadily deteriorating economic conditions for most Iraqis outside the Kurdish security zone, and does so in the face of almost incredible incompetence by USAID and the Corps of Engineers.” FirstsDoeWarGovernmentFacesForceGrowthProgressEconomicConditionsSecurityFiguresDevelopmentIntegrityConflictIncrediblesIraqZoneMeaninglessEngineersTransparencyIncompetenceExaggeratedInsurgencyDeterioratingKurdishUsaid Author:Anthony H. Cordesman
“The interesting scope of Mark Twain's development as a human being is that he grew. He saw, he travelled, he studied this country and later the world with the eye of a man educating himself. This is a central fact in the Mark Twain legacy. He became an American spokesman for the ideals of racial equality and dignity for the working man because he was willing to look the world in its face and see, really see what was happening to the people in it.” PeopleMenWorldHumansLooksCountryFactsEyeFacesHuman BeingsInterestingSawsWillingGrewDevelopmentHappeningsIdealsDignityMarkLegacyScopeWorking ManRacial Equality Author:Hal Holbrook
“The fossil-fuel-based development model has not benefitted all people and those who have benefitted least are now suffering great harm in the face of climate change.” PeopleFacesSufferingDevelopmentModelsClimateClimate ChangeHarmFuelFossilsFossil Fuel Author:Mary Robinson
“When student-actors see people and the way they behave when together, see the color of the sky, hear the sounds in the air, feel the ground beneath them and the wind on their faces, they get a wider view of their personal world and development in the theater is quickened. The world provides the material for the theater and artistic growth develops hand-in-hand with one's recognition of it and one's self within it.” PeopleWorldWayFeelsSelfHandsTogetherFacesActorsSoundGrowthViewsActingAirSkyStudentsColorWindMaterialsDevelopmentTheaterRecognitionArtisticBehaveHand In Hand Author:Viola Spolin