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“We will not overcome world poverty unless we manage climate change successfully. I've spent my life as a development economist, and it's crystal clear that we succeed or fail on winning the battle against world poverty and managing climate change together. If we fail on one, we fail on the other.”

Ifs World Together Winning Poverty Clear Failing Development Battle Succeed Overcoming Climate Climate Change Manage Economist Crystals World Poverty

Author:Nicholas Stern

“Failing to provide children adequate access to nutritious food not only endangers their emotional, physical and mental development, but it also puts all aspects of their future well-being at risk. The costs are too high when you short-change children.”

Wells Children Failing Risk Emotional Development Cost Aspect Access Well Being Adequate

Author:Jane Bown

“A nation that fails to plan intelligently for the development and protection of its precious waters will be condemned to wither because of its shortsightedness. The hard lessons of history are clear, written on the deserted sands and ruins of once proud civilizations.”

Hard Nations Water Clear Plans Failing Written Development Proud Civilization Lessons Environmental Protection Ruins Sand Deserted Hard Lessons

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969

“[...] it is right to be kind and even sacrifice ourselves to people who need kindness and lie in our way - otherwise, besides failing to help them, we run into the aridity of self-development. To seek for recipients of one's goodness, to play the Potted Jesus leads to the contray the Christian danger.”

People Way Needs Kind Self Play Helping Running Christian Lying Jesus Kindness Failing Sacrifice Danger Development Goodness Be Kind Self Development

Book:Commonplace Book

Source: Commonplace Book

“The truth is my development I hope is the same way as everything, which is, I succeed some, I fail some, and I keep slugging away at it. I really enjoy it. It's fun.”

Way Fun Enjoy Failing Development Truth Is Succeed

Author:George Clooney

“Most books fail, not so much from a want of ability in their authors, as from an absence in their productions of a thorough development of their ability.”

Want Book Ability Failing Development Productions Absence Thorough

Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

“Surely arrested development consists not in refusing to lose old things but in failing to add new things.”

Loses Failing Development Add New Things Arrested Old Things

Book:On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

Source: On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

“Concern for the fate of the great rivers of the earth must lead us to reflect soberly on the model of development which our society is pursuing. A purely economic and technological understanding of progress, to the extent that it fails to acknowledge its intrinsic limitations and to take into consideration the integral good of humanity, will inevitably provoke negative consequences for individuals, peoples and creation itself.”

“The revolution in Nicaragua was the first of its kind to be accomplished with the mass support of Christians, a fact that cannot fail to influence the further development of revolutionary movements in the whole of Latin America, whose inhabitants are predominantly Christian.”

Firsts Kind Whole Facts Christian America Support Failing Influence Movement Revolution Development Mass Revolutionary Accomplished Latin Latin America Nicaragua

Author:Ernesto Cardenal

“Protestantism as such is a better defender of the interests of Germanism, in so far as this is grounded in its genesis and later tradition; it fails, however, in the moment when this defense of national interests must take place in a province which is either absent from the general line of its ideological world and traditional development, or is for some reason rejected.”

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Author:Adolf Hitler

“The political structure in different countries has different origins, different developments. Something which suits one country extremely well would perhaps fail completely in another. Germany, through the long centuries of monarchy, has always had a leadership principle. ... The position of the Catholic Church rests now, as before, on the clear leadership principle of its hierarchy. And I think I can also say that of Russia, too.”