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“Not only do these abominable weapons lie buried in silence and in their millions waiting to kill or maim innocent women and children; but the presence or even the fear of the presence of a single landmine can prevent the cultivation of an entire field, rob a whole village of its livelihood, place yet another obstacle on a country's road to reconstruction and development”

Children Country Whole Lying Waiting Silence Millions Fields Development Weapons Obstacles Innocent Village Buried Livelihood Cultivation Reconstruction Landmines

Author:Kofi Annan

“[...] 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

“Either the State for ever, crushing individual and local life, taking over in all fields of human activity, bringing with it its wars and its domestic struggles for power, its palace revolutions which only replace one tyrant by another, and inevitably at the end of this development there is ... death! Or the destruction of States, and new life starting again in thousands of centers on the principle of the lively initiative of the individual and groups and that of free agreement.The choice lies with you!”

“The bicameral mind with its controlling gods was evolved as a final stage of the evolution of language. And in this development lies the origin of civilization.”

Mind Lying Language Stage Development Evolution Civilization Finals Evolution Of Language

Book:The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

Source: The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

“The real potential of electricity lies not in providing social amenities but in stimulating long-term economic development”

Long Real Lying Social Term Economic Development Long Term Providing Electricity Economic Development Amenities

Book:Electricity for a developing world: new directions

Source: Electricity for a developing world: new directions

“The principal impact of foreign enterprise on the development of the underdeveloped countries lies in hardening and strengthening the sway of merchant capitalism, in slowing down and indeed preventing its transformation into industrial capitalism.”

Country Lying Development Capitalism Transformation Down And Impact Enterprise Principal Slow Down Merchants Preventing Strengthening Slowing Underdeveloped Countries

Book:Political Econ of Growth

Source: Political Econ of Growth

“Who of us would not be glad to lift the veil behind which the future lies hidden; to cast a glance at the next advances of our science and at the secrets of its development during future centuries? What particular goals will there be toward which the leading mathematical spirits of coming generations will strive? What new methods and new facts in the wide and rich field of mathematical thought will the new centuries disclose?”

Facts Spirit Lying Next Goal Secret Behinds Rich Generations Century Fields Particular Development Method Strive Casts Wide Glad Mathematical Lifts Glances Veils

Author:David Hilbert

“As industries migrate toward the Far East, the future of many Western cities will no longer lie in manufacturing products but ideas and patents. Young, mobile elites can choose where they want to live, and they can easily move, which means that cities are involved in a heated competition for the best people. Only the most attractive cities can benefit from this development.”

People Want Mean Ideas Moving Young Lying Cities Products Development Industry Involved Benefits Competition Western East Attractive Elites Mobile Manufacturing Patents Migrate

Author:Charles Landry

“Probably the greatest single obstacle to the progress and happiness of the American people lies in the willingness of so many men to invest their time and money in multiplying competitive industries instead of opening up new fields, and putting their money into lines of industry and development that are needed.”

People Men Lying Lines Progress Fields Development Industry Needed Obstacles Opening Willingness Opening Up Time And Money Multiplying People Lie

Book:Random Reminiscences of Men and Events

Source: Random Reminiscences of Men and Events

“The comprehensibility of the world seems to me a wonder or eternal secret. Here lies the sense of wonder which increases even more with the development of our knowledge.”

World Seems Lying Secret Wonder Development Eternal Increase Sense Of Wonder

Author:Albert Einstein

“The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering, but in the development of the soul...”

Thinking Soul Spiritual Used Lying Existence Development Prospering

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.”

Soul Lying Regret Development Experience Lips Deny Denial Never Regret

Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis,

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis,

“When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.'”

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Author:Vince Cable

“Economic development is something much wider and deeper than economics, let alone econometrics. Its roots lie outside the economic sphere, in education, organisation, discipline and, beyond that, in political independence and a national consciousness of self-reliance.”