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Kofi Annan Diplomat, Politician
Development

"We will not enjoy security without development, we will not enjoy development without security, and we will not enjoy either without respect for human rights."

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"As you know Cuba has progressed a lot regarding all the indicators of social development and those rates can be compared favorably with the first world in several aspects. We think that without the heavy burden of the blockade that we can move forward a lot more in building prosperous and sustainable socialism to which we aspire."

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Aung San Suu Kyi Politician, Activist
Development

"The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development."

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Karl Marx Philosopher, Economist
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"So in Jewry we recognise a contemporary universal anti-social phenomenon, which has reached its present pitch through a process of, historical development in which the Jews have zealously co-operated. And this evil anti-social aspect of Jewry has grown to a stage at which: it must necessarily collapse."

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Lewis Mumford Philosopher, Author
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"Nothing is unthinkable, nothing impossible to the balanced person, provided it comes out of the needs of life and is dedicated to life's further development."

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poet, Playwright, Novelist
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"To be sure, we have inherited abilities, but our development we owe to thousands of influences coming from the world around us from which we appropriate what we can and what is suitable to us."

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John Stuart Mill Philosopher, Political Economist
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"In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to others. There is a greater fullness of life about his own existence, and when there is more life in the units there is more in the mass which is composed of them."

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Kofi Annan Diplomat, Politician
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"HIV/AIDS has become much more than a health issue. HIV/AIDS is a development issue, it's a security issue."

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
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"Things are both getting better and getting worse. The madness is accelerating but an acceleration of the new consciousness is also coming in. However, this latter development is less apparent when you listen to the media. The media still mostly reflects what is happening in the sphere of the old consciousness."

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