“In our current state of human development it remains unclear whether we will correct one of life's greatest tragedies, namely, the inability to appreciate a blessing until it is lost.” HumansStatesLostDevelopmentBlessingAppreciateTragedyRemainsCurrentsInabilityHuman DevelopmentUnclear Author:Shmuley Boteach
“Israel's shooting down of a civilian airplane and then the killing of 107 innocent peopel aboard, and their raid into neutral Lebanon are very dangerous developments. There's only one way I can see to stop it...is for the United States to take a very strong stand that this has to be settled...politically settled.” WayI CanStatesStrongUnitedUnited StatesDangerousDevelopmentKillingJewIsraelInnocentOne WayShootingVery StrongAirplaneCiviliansLebanon Author:J. William Fulbright
“Well, we have the leverage in the sense that we supply all the wherewithal...or a major part of the wherewithal to finance or to pay for everything Israel does. We don't have any leverage in the sense that Israel controls the Senate. The Senate is at least...a subservient, in my opinion, much too much. We should be more concerned about the United States' interest, rather than doing the bidding of Israel. This is a most unusual development.” ShouldWellsDoeStatesInterestUnitedPayOpinionUnited StatesToo MuchDevelopmentMajorsConcernedJewIsraelFinanceUnusualSenateBiddingSubservient Author:J. William Fulbright
“While the nominal strength of a country is represented by its numbers and resources, this muscular development is dependent on the state of its internal organs and nerve-system - upon its stability of control, morale, and supply.” CountryStatesNumbersMilitaryDevelopmentResourcesDependentInternalsNervesStabilityOrgansMorale Author:B. H. Liddell Hart
“Recall that the United Nations commissioned Arab scholars and analysts to publish the Arab Human Development Report. What causes the backwardness, the scholars wondered, of 22 Arab states, covering nearly 300 million people? Their conclusion? Of all world regions, the Arab countries scored the lowest in freedom, media independence, civil liberties, political process and political rights.” PeopleWorldHumansCountryStatesPoliticalNationsCausesProcessUnitedLibertyMillionsRightsMediaDevelopmentIndependenceConclusionReportsRegionsScholarRecallsLowestUnited NationsPublishCoveringCivil LibertiesHuman DevelopmentAnalystsPolitical Rights Author:Larry Elder
“As one of the nation's top agricultural states, Nebraska has a great opportunity to provide input that will help shape the 2007 Farm Bill, .. This legislation will help determine commodity price supports, priorities with regard to conservation programs, as well as rural development, renewable energy and beginning farmer initiatives for several years to come.” YearsWellsStatesHelpingOpportunityEnergyNationsSupportDevelopmentShapesProgramRegardBillsDeterminePrioritiesFarmsFarmersInitiativeAgricultureCommodityConservationLegislationInputRenewable EnergyGreat OpportunityNebraskaCommodity Prices Author:Dave Heineman
“I think, as a general matter, clearly, the United States globally supports the development of democracy and the democratic yearnings of all people.” PeopleThinkingMatterStatesUnitedUnited StatesSupportDemocracyDevelopmentDemocraticYearning Author:Richard Armitage
“Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It's basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it's wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore.” ThinkingWorldWellsStatesPoliticalPowerfulSecretDemocracyWonderfulModernDevelopmentCapitalismBuiltToolsInnovationMechanismModern WorldEmpoweredVery Powerful Author:Bill Gates
“A masterly analysis of how political interests, economic circumstances, development strategies, and local history have shaped what are surprisingly different versions of the welfare state across the developing world. The authors combine fine-grained country analyses with intelligent use of data, and explain and extend the theory and literature on the modern welfare state. The book is both scholarly and readable.” WorldBookDifferentCountryStatesUsePoliticalLiteratureInterestEconomicModernTheoryFineDevelopmentCircumstancesIntelligentStrategyLocalsVersionsDataDevelopingWelfareAnalysisWelfare StateScholarlyLocal History Author:Nancy Birdsall
“it [is] possible to suppose that, if Russia is allowed to have peace, an amazing industrial development may take place, making Russia a rival of the United States.” IfsMayStatesUnitedUnited StatesDevelopmentRussiaRivals Book:Uncertain Paths to Freedom: Russia and China, 1919-22 Source: Uncertain Paths to Freedom: Russia and China, 1919-22
“The late development of mass industrial organization in the United States has both stimulated and retarded the political development of the American working class.” StatesPoliticalUnitedClassUnited StatesDevelopmentLateMassOrganizationWorking ClassRetardedRetard Author:C. L. R. James
“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!” HumansWarEndsStatesLyingChoicesIndividualPrinciplesStruggleGroupsFieldsRevolutionDevelopmentActivityDestructionStartingLocalsCrushAgreementTyrantsInitiativeNew LifePalacesLivelyHuman Activity Author:Peter Kropotkin
“Serious research and development efforts are required to produce technologies, strategies, organizations, and trained personnel who can go into failed states, work with our allies and friends, and promote the political and economic reforms that will meet popular needs and reduce the sources of terrorism and conflict.” NeedsStatesPoliticalEffortTechnologyEconomicProduceSeriousSourceDevelopmentConflictResearchOrganizationStrategyTerrorismReformAlliesPersonnelResearch And DevelopmentEconomic Reforms Author:Wesley Clark
“In point of fact there are a certain number of values and of forces which are of decisive importance in our world civilization: the primacy of production, the continual growth of the power of the State and the formation of the National State, the autonomous development of technics, etc. These, among others - far more than the ownership of the means of production or any totalitarian doctrine - are the constitutive elements of the modern world. So long as these elements continue to be taken for granted, the world is standing still.” WorldMeanLongStillsStatesFactsCertainValuesForceGrowthNumbersTakenModernDevelopmentCivilizationElementsStandingImportanceProductionsDoctrineGrantedEtcOur WorldOwnershipModern WorldFormationTaken For GrantedAutonomousStanding StillPrimacyContinual Growth Author:Jacques Ellul
“Linear programming is viewed as a revolutionary development giving man the ability to state general objectives and to find, by means of the simplex method, optimal policy decisions for a broad class of practical decision problems of great complexity. In the real world, planning tends to be ad hoc because of the many special-interest groups with their multiple objectives.” MenWorldGivingMeanRealStatesProblemInterestAbilityDecisionClassGroupsSpecialPolicyHe ManDevelopmentMethodPlanningPracticalsObjectivesRevolutionaryComplexityProgrammingBroadsReal WorldAdsMultipleLinearSpecial InterestsOptimalInterest GroupsSpecial Interest Groups Author:George Dantzig
“Our scientists all the more occupy advanced positions in the development of world science. By the example of their successes in the field of atomic energy, our scientists and technicians have vividly shown how much the increased might of the Soviet state and the further growth of its international authority depends on their efforts and practical successes.” WorldStatesMightEnergyGrowthEffortExampleFieldsPositionDependsDevelopmentAuthorityScientistInternationalPracticalsSovietTechniciansAtomic Energy Author:Vyacheslav Molotov
“There will be no peace in Europe if the States rebuild themselves on the basis of national sovereignty, with its implications of prestige politics and economic protection... The countries of Europe are not strong enough individually to be able to guarantee prosperity and social development for their peoples. The States of Europe must therefore form a federation or a European entity that would make them into a common economic unit.” IfsCountryStatesEnoughAbleFormStrongSocialCommonEconomicDevelopmentEuropeBasesProsperityProtectionGuaranteesEntityUnitsSovereigntyStrong EnoughImplicationsPrestigeSocial DevelopmentFederationNot StrongNational SovereigntyNot Strong Enough Author:Jean Monnet