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Sometimes when Rose was reading, she would catch a whiff of the musty smell of her book. She put her nose down in the fold and inhaled deeply so that wonderful smell, the smell of adventure in faraway lands, would fill her up. She rubbed her hand across the pages to feel the velvety surface of the paper. When she closed her eyes, her fingertips could even feel the words that were printed there, each letter raised just a little, almost like the special language that her blind aunt Mary could read.To Rose, a book was as real and alive as if it breathed and walked and spoke.
— Roger Lea MacBride, In the Land of the Big Red Apple
There are books that change our perspectives and books that change our personalities.
— Carla H. Krueger
People who don't read fiction are scared of what's inside their own heads.
— Carla H. Krueger
Robert Pattinson loves to read and watch old movies and he’s very smart.
— Reese Witherspoon
The book is not an object on the table; it is an event in the reader's mind. It's a process, through which an idea in my mind triggers an idea, more-or-less corresponding, in yours. The words on the page are merely the means to that end, a think-by-numbers set, a bottled daydream. The book, therefore, is only finished when someone reads it. - Sidelines
— Lois McMaster Bujold
Robert Pattinson reads all of the time and he refers so many great books.
— Kellan Lutz
Read whatever book you lay your hands on if you can, for every writer has a story to tell
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
I read used books because fingerprint-smudged and dog-eared pages are heavier on the eye. Because every book can belong to many lives. Books should be kept in public places and step out with passersby who'll onto them for a spell. Books should die like people, consumed by aches and pains, infected, drowning off a bridge together with the suicides, poked into a potbellied stove, torn apart by children to make paper boats. They should die of anything, in other words, except boredom, as private property condemned to a life sentence on a shelf.
— Erri De Luca
You enter a book as if you are setting out on a journey and, if it is a good book, you will be a different person when you reach the end.
— Chloe Thurlow, Katie in Love
What about damp? What about flooding? Wouldn't it make sense to have a little lawn or garden as a sort of buffer zone between the house and the water? But then it wouldn't be Venice, said Connie's voice in my head. Then it would be Staines.
— David Nicholls, Us
when you read once, you get the understanding ; when you read twice, you get the second understanding. Don't just read, read!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
SUPPORT LITERACY! A child who cannot read cannot text.
— Ron Brackin
All must read their so-called 'holy' book - word by word - to determine, by self, its unholy bit.
— Fakeer Ishavardas
We are not reading books merely to check off a list or to be able to say we have read them. We are reading to grow as persons, to know more that we may understand more, and ultimately, it is to be hoped, to act according to our greater wisdom.
— Karen  Glass
If you take a book into your hands, be it 'God's book, or any other useful good book,' rely on God to make it profitable to you. Do not waste time reading unprofitable books. When you read, do so not out of vain curiosity but with love for God's kingdom, compassion for human beings, and the intent to turn what you learn into prayers and praises.
— Matthew Henry
People who love reading get an instantly warm feeling in their bellies when they hear others describe getting comfortable with a good book.
— Carla H. Krueger
Books allow you to open doors, and chapters allow you to explore
— Joe Caulfield I think
After reading a book, you become someone else: Now you are not you, but you plus the book!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
They are a brilliant device for shape-shifting as we can slip into the skin of authors from other times, other cultural backgrounds, brilliant minds who give us a new perspective on life and the world - something we all need from time to time. - Cornelia Funke
— Jen Campbell, The Bookshop Book
When I read a daring book or listen to rebellious music, I feel like I've found what freedom really means.
— Carla H. Krueger
That's how you have to read this book, you see. You wade through a few sentences, then stop and think about them, then wade through a few more.
— Susanna Kearsley, The Splendour Falls
106When I don’t have anything to read, I feel like a tortoise without a shell or a boat without an anchor. There is nothing to hide under. Nowhere to stop and rest. When I don’t have a book, there is nowhere good or interesting to be, there is nobody to care about, nothing to hope for, and nothing to puzzle over. When I do have something to read, it keeps me breathing. It’s the reward for all the other things. It’s the thing to look forward to, the reason for doing my day.” p. 177, Dime
— E. R. Frank
I read as if time were running out, because technically it is. As I grow older I find I'm increasingly impatient with mediocre entertainments; I want books that will take my breath away and realign my vision - Barbara Kingsolver
— Pat Williams, Read for Your Life: 11 Ways to Better Yourself Through Books
I hate to read books but a friend said he read the dictionary and that the Zebra did it.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich, Stantasyland: Quips Quotes and Quandaries
When one opens a book, one should also open one's mind.
— Adriano Bulla
Meggie thought this first whisper sounded a little different from one book to another, depending on weather or not she already knew the story it was going to tell her.
— Cornelia Funke, Inkheart
You could probably live without mastering the ability. But the ability to read those books…it’ll introduce you to new worlds and new thoughts. You can learn a lot about a man from the books he treasures.
— Jamie Craig
We live to read.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book as well as reading it - or rather, it is like living it. It makes reading so much more exciting
— Dodie Smith
Aric’s voice was hoarse by the time he ended the tale, but he didn’t want to go to sleep. There was something so wonderfully intimate about sitting with another person like this, sharing a story, the candlelight flickering in the darkness. It was as if the rest of the world disappeared as long as the storytelling continued.
— Kim Fielding, Brute
Literacy: Blessing? Or curse?
— Charles Frazier, Thirteen Moons
You leave the previous book with idea's and themes - characters even - caught in the fibers of your clothing - and when you open a new book, they are still with you.
— Diane Setterfield
To live in books is cowardly---but people are not worth investigation.
— Lily Koppel, The Red Leather Diary: Reclaiming a Life Through the Pages of a Lost Journal
Take some books and read
—  that’s an immense help
The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be.
— Theodore Roosevelt
When book and reader's furrowed brow meet, it isn't always the book that's stupid.
— William H. Gass
Though I enjoy the occasional eBook from time to time, I will only stop reading books printed on paper when they pry them from my cold, dead, withered hands, and even then, they will be hard pressed to take them from me.
— H.L.  Stephens
I have found that reading is much better than a good sleep.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Books are almost as individual as friends. There is no earthly use in laying down general laws about them. Some meet the needs of one person, and some of another; and each person should beware of the booklover’s besetting sin, of what Mr. Edgar Allan Poe calls ‘the mad pride of intellectuality,’ taking the shape of arrogant pity for the man who does not like the same kind of books.
— Theodore Roosevelt
A book lives a new life every time it is read.
— Brandon Sanderson
Book means fly in the sky,cross the desert, without wing without water.
— jahangir khosravi shakib
Dinner-parties bore us because our imagination is absent, and reading interests us because it is keeping us company.
— Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way
Every reading is a misreading.
— Phyllis Rose, The Shelf: From LEQ to LES: Adventures in Extreme Reading
I have learned through dreams more wisdom, than by reading hundreds of books.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
There is something magical about losing yourself in a world that doesn't exist.
— Lyra Parish
One can’t prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person.
— Rudyard Kipling, A Book Of Words: Selections From Speeches And Addresses Delivered Between 1906 And 1927
An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of seven. The texture of the world is painful, inadequate; unalterable, or so it seems to me. Really, I believe that an entire life spent reading would have suited me best.
— Michel Houellebecq, Whatever
There is no ME without books; they’re everything I remember from childhood, from maturity … All that’s happened to me has been coloured, permanently, by my reading.
— Spencer Gordon, Cosmo
People should read more.
— Aaron B. Powell
Eventually, we come to love certain novels because we have expended so much imaginative labor on them. This is why we hang on to those novels, whose pages are creased and dog-eared.
— Orhan Pamuk, The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist
At the end of the afternoon she tore herself away from the story to go and buy some tobacco. This would be tricky on a holiday, but never mind, it was mainly a pretext so the story could settle and she'd have the pleasure of meeting up with her new friend again a bit later on.
— Anna Gavalda, Hunting and Gathering
I guess you can call me "old fashioned". I prefer the book with the pages that you can actually turn. Sure, I may have to lick the tip of my fingers so that the pages don't stick together when I'm enraptured in a story that I can't wait to get to the next page. But nothing beats the sound that an actual, physical book makes when you first crack it open or the smell of new, fresh printed words on the creamy white paper of a page turner.
— Felicia  Johnson
She read novels. One book after another, sometimes at the rate of one a day, for a solid year. An acceptable form of escape that didn’t leave a hangover.
— Wendy  Wax, The Accidental Bestseller
I am shocked to find that some people think a 2 star 'I liked it' rating is a bad rating. What? I liked it. I LIKED it! That means I read the whole thing, to the last page, in spite of my life raining comets on me. It's a good book that survives the reading process with me. If a book is so-so, it ends up under the bed somewhere, or maybe under a stinky judo bag in the back of the van. So a 2 star from me means,yes, I liked the book, and I'd loan it to a friend and it went everywhere in my jacket pocket or purse until I finished it. A 3 star means that I've ignored friends to finish it and my sink is full of dirty dishes. A 4 star means I'm probably in trouble with my editor for missing a deadline because I was reading this book. But I want you to know . . . I don't finish books I don't like. There's too many good ones out there waiting to be found. Robin Hobb, author
— Robin Hobb
Life is too short to waste your time with bad books.
— Michael Krüger
Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
— Seneca, Letters from a Stoic
If you are not reading and thinking, it means that your windows looking to the ocean are closed!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Reading is dreaming. Reading is entering a world of imagination shared between reader and author. Reading is getting beyond the words to the story or meaning underneath.
— Paul Kropp, How to Make Your Child a Reader for Life
You read a lot?" Galina finally asked."Yes. It's an escape into another world." She tried to keep her words light instead of sad, thoughts of her family in her head. "Sometimes that is the best part of a hard day.
— Anne Mallory, Seven Secrets of Seduction
Writing is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.
— Jules Renard 1890
Reading that pleases and profits, that together delights and instructs, has all that one should desire.
— Jacques Amyot
This book is a treasure; I did not suspect it would be so good when I picked it up, but now I can feel the printed words seeping through my skin and into my veins, rushing to my heart and marking it forever.I want to savor this wonder, this happening of loving a book and reading it for the first time, because the first time is always the best, and I will never read this book for the first time ever again.
— Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been with Me
Never judge a book by its movie.
— J.W. Eagan
Reading a book, for me at least, is like traveling in someone else's world. If it's a good book, then you feel comfortable and yet anxious to see what's going to happen to you there, what'll be around the next corner. But if it's a lousy book, then it's like going through Secaucus, New Jersey -- it smells and you wish you weren't there, but since you've started the trip, you roll up the windows and breathe through your mouth until you're done.
— Jonathan Carroll, The Land of Laughs
Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything.
— Tomie dePaola
I prefer the company of books. When I'm reading, I'm never alone, I have a conversation with the book. It can be very intimate. Perhaps you know this feeling yourself? The sense that you're having an intellectual exchange with the author, following his or her train thought and you accompany each other for weeks on end.
— Sophie Divry, Signatura 400
Lost in my dreams, I somehow cross at the traffic signals, bumping into street lamps or people, yet moving onward, exuding fumes of beer and grime, yet smiling, because my briefcase is full of books and that very night I expect them to tell me things about myself I don't know.
— Bohumil Hrabal, Too Loud a Solitude
Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but, most important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
— Hazel Rochman
There is no other escape like a book. Reading expands your mind and opens your world to a myriad of possibilities.
— Fran Veal
We read privately, mentally listening to the author's voice and translating the writer's thoughts. The book remains static and fixed; the reader journeys through it.
— Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
And now if you'll excuse me, I should like to finish my book, alone, without the presence of a single ringleted girl to disrupt me. If you should come for me at dinner and find me in my chair, gone to the angels at last, you shall know that I died alone, which is to say in a state of utter bliss.
— Libba Bray, Rebel Angels
Reading's ability to beam you up to a different world is a good part of the reason why people like me do it in the first place---because dollar for dollar, hour per hour, it's the most expedient way to get from our proscribed little "here" to an imagined, intriguing there". Part time machine, part Concorde, part ejector seat, books are our salvation.
— Sara Nelson, So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading
Drop everithing and read.
— Emma Roberts
And please, stay away from those books you devour. They are putting the most fantastical tales into your head.
— Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing
Only because books are better than people, Father. ... Because they are masters who instruct without a rod. If you approach them, they are never asleep; if you are ignorant, they never laugh; if you make mistakes, they never chide. They give to all who ask of them, and never demand payment. ... All the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion, if God hadn't provided us with the remedy of books.
— Catherine Jinks - Pagan's Scribe
The stories she'd read of others' lives over these last few months had left her with a greater appreciation for the thread of her own life.
— Masha Hamilton, The Camel Bookmobile
He was a quick fellow, and when hot from play, would toss himself in a corner, and in five minutes be deep in any sort of book that he could lay his hands on: if it were Rasselas or Gulliver, so much the better, but Bailey's Dictionary would do, or the Bible with the Apocrypha in it. Something he must read, when he was not riding the pony, or running and hunting, or listening to the talk of men. All this was true of him at ten years of age; he had then read through Chrysal, or the Adventures of a Guinea, which was neither milk for babes, nor any chalky mixture meant to pass for milk, and it had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid.
— George Eliot, Middlemarch
Take a glass of wine while reading, your feet on the back of your slave. This is the best combination of pleasures that is.
— Danny Tyran
Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading--I like reading books in the bulk.
— Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
(...) perfectly ordinary books, printed on commonplace paper in mundane ink. It would be a mistake to think that they weren't also dangerous, just because reading them didn't make fireworks go off in the sky. Reading them sometimes did the more dangerous trick of making fireworks go off in the privacy of the reader's brain.
— Terry Pratchett
I, on the other hand, believe that books, maps, scissors, and Scotch tape dispensers are all unreliable vagrants, likely to take off for parts unknown unless strictly confined to quarters.
— Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
This is one of the defining sorrows of books: that we cannot see one another.
— John Hodgman, The Areas of My Expertise
We may need to put down the book from time to time, but we should make sure not to let the computer become the new book. The universal medium, like the universal library, is a dream that does more harm than good.
— Andrew   Piper, Book Was There: Reading in Electronic Times
Development is about transforming the lives of people, not just transforming economies.
— Joseph E. Stiglitz, Making Globalization Work
The American Society of Civil Engineers said in 2007 that the U.S. had fallen so far behind in maintaining its public infrastructure -- roads, bridges, schools, dams -- that it would take more than a trillion and half dollars over five years to bring it back up to standard. Instead, these types of expenditures are being cut back. At the same time, public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy to imagine a future in which growing numbers of cities have their frail and long-neglected infrastructures knocked out by disasters and then are left to rot, their core services never repaired or rehabilitated. The well-off, meanwhile, will withdraw into gated communities, their needs met by privatized providers. 
— Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Is then no nook of English ground secureFrom rash assault?
— William Wordsworth
But as the Everglades continued to wither, a few of their colleagues began to wonder if conservation really should mean development more than preservation. These heretics did not believe that God had created man in order to 'improve' or 'redeem' nature; they found God's grace in nature itself.
— Michael Grunwald
The "silly" question is the first intimation of some totally new development
— Alfred North Whitehead
Change in the societies at the very bottom must come predominantly from within
—  we cannot impose it on them.
... money should not be spent according to what the West considers the most dramatic kind of suffering.
— William Easterly
Half, Not Half-Assed
— 37 Signals, Getting Real: The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Web Application
Original thinking is the hardest thing you can try to do or that you can do, but it is also the most rewarding. Focus on your personal growth and development
— David Sikhosana, Time Value of Money: Timing Income
This two-track plan of nationalism and development (in China) is a historically powerful weapon.
— Patrick Mendis, Peaceful War: How the Chinese Dream and the American Destiny Create a New Pacific World Order
You got warlords still running free, but yet you want a stable Liberia. You got puppets as leaders still signing off Liberia's resources to foreigners, but yet you want a developed Liberia. They are threat to a progressive Liberia.
— Henry Johnson Jr
What's the point of these demagogic campaigns if these hungry kids are still here on the road? All little ones deserve protection, food, love and peace.
— Carla Perez
To accept one's past -- one's history -- is not the same thing as drowning in it
—  it is learning how to use it.
Other people cannot see what I see whenever I look into your father's face, for behind your father's face as it is today are all those other faces which were his.
— James     Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
When you feel you are incomplete you can always console yourself with the idea of being infinite.
— Luigina Sgarro
There was no denying the fact that the death of sugarcane was sounding the knell for something else in the country. What can we call it?
— Maryse Condé, Crossing the Mangrove
Celaena peered in the mirror—and stopped dead.The somewhat shorter hair was the least of the changes.She was now flushed with color, her eyes bright and clear, and though she'd regained the weight she'd lost during that winter, her face was leaner. A woman—a woman was smiling back at her, beautiful for every scar and imperfection and mark of survival, beautiful for the fact that the smile was real, and she felt it kindle the long-slumbering joy in her heart.
— Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire
Let me first talk about our brains as a personal radio telescope. Let me talk first about its wonderful built-in wiring for tuning out the static of our civilization in order to better tune in its symphony.
— E.L. Konigsburg, Talk, Talk : A Children's Book Author Speaks to Grown-Ups
Some days I feel more like a scribe than a creator. I will have the major points fleshed out, but there is always a turn or two that I didn't see coming, or which came earlier than I expected it to, or not at all...
— J. Neven-Pugh
The more detailed we made our plans, the longer our cycle times became
— Donald G. Reinertsen, The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development
Never forget to put the beneficiaries on top of your organogram!
— Geir Furuseth
It is more important to be than to do, for if I am what God wants me to be, then I will do what He wants me to do. If I try to promote a program, however well-meaning, without personal holiness, it will be tainted by the defects of my life. It may lack the direction of full knowledge of the Word, or the discernment of maturity, or the direction that comes through unclouded fellowship with the Lord. Primarily we do not need to develop programs, but people.
— Charles C. Ryrie, The Christian and Social Responsibility
Any person or nation can successfully duplicate any achievement that a person or nation succeeded in attaining. I am sure that Africa and other economically backward countries, that are sometimes referred to as third world countries, can attain a very high rate of development much faster than the time it took Europe and other first world countries.
— Sunday Adelaja
I'm not talking about being against development. I'm talking about the politics of development. I'm talking about more development, not less. More democracy, not less. More modernization, not less. How do you break down this completely centralized, undemocratic process of decision-making? How do you make sure that it's decentralized and that people have power over their lives and their natural resources? I don't even believe in the modern business-like notion of "efficiency". It dovetails with totalitarianism, fascism. Peopl say, "If it's decentralized it will be inefficient." I think that's fine. Let it be inefficient.
— Arundhati Roy, The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy
The first stage of any development is infancy.
— Sunday Adelaja
The New Economy brings the need to tap people’s curiosity, quest for knowledge and understanding, in order to develop a sustainable society.
— Miguel Reynolds Brandao, The Sustainable Organisation - a paradigm for a fairer society: Think about sustainability in an age of technological progress and rising inequality
Taking measures to ensure stability could assure the long-term economic growth and welfare at a global level
— Miguel Reynolds Brandao, The Sustainable Organisation - a paradigm for a fairer society: Think about sustainability in an age of technological progress and rising inequality
Glorify Sustainable Organisations since they benefit all society
— Miguel Reynolds Brandao, The Sustainable Organisation - a paradigm for a fairer society: Think about sustainability in an age of technological progress and rising inequality
It strikes me as unfortunate that this approach - affording the same dignity to and investing in the same quality for a poor child as you would for your own - is so often received as provocative.
— Jacob Lief
Rather than trying to reinvent the wheel, build on to that which is already excellent.
— Auliq Ice
[T]he strongest defense of the humanities lies not in the appeal to their utility — that literature majors may find good jobs, that theaters may economically revitalize neighborhoods — but rather in the appeal to their defiantly nonutilitarian character, so that individuals can know more than how things work, and develop their powers of discernment and judgment, their competence in matters of truth and goodness and beauty, to equip themselves adequately for the choices and the crucibles of private and public life.
— Leon Wieseltier
Together we can remind them there are no excuses to sit back and watch the cycle of extreme poverty continue.
— Auliq Ice
If you want to do a few small things right, do them yourself. If you want to do great things and make a big impact, learn to delegate.
— John C. Maxwell
jQuery is by far the most widely used library for JavaScript. It is used on more than 50% of websites. Many frameworks, such as Backbone and Twitter’s Bootstrap, are built on top of jQuery. Being able to extend and write plugins for jQuery can not only save lots of time, but also makes code much cleaner and easier to maintain.
— Robert Duchnik, jQuery Plugin Development In 30 Minutes
believe the power of jQuery is highly underutilized. Most developers will take advantage of its shortcuts and CSS selectors, but most of the time they fail to take advantage of much else. Being able to extend jQuery, whether by adding your own functions, CSS selectors or full-blown plugins, makes you a much stronger and smarter developer.
— Robert Duchnik, jQuery Plugin Development In 30 Minutes
Reusability is key in reducing bugs and coding quickly. The more I use a piece of code, the more confident and familiar I become with it, which in turn significantly speeds up my development time.
— Robert Duchnik, jQuery Plugin Development In 30 Minutes
In my experience, requirements change quite often, or new situations will arise that weren’t anticipated at the start of the project. If the situation can be addressed with a plugin, I just whip open the standalone plugin page, make the updates and pop the new plugin back in. Because the plugin is self-contained, it’s easy to recreate the problem, fix it, and get it back into the codebase.
— Robert Duchnik, jQuery Plugin Development In 30 Minutes
Ultimately, I try to think of my application’s main codebase as just stringing together various components and code from many sources. It just controls logic and flow. The real nitty-gritty is handled behind the scenes. This is why frameworks like Backbone are so important — they hide a lot of the details in the background and allow you to just focus on the flow and control of your application.
— Robert Duchnik, jQuery Plugin Development In 30 Minutes
A good standalone plugin can also make you a fair amount of money. Many developers make a decent living by simply maintaining and updating one or two crucial plugins that are far better than anything available for free.
— Robert Duchnik, jQuery Plugin Development In 30 Minutes
The economic base of a nation, is the foundation of the it's secrets.
— Auliq Ice
Diversity of opinion in religious belief and its mode is not incompatible with equal possession of the essentials of pure faith, nor at variance with the divine purpose. If an analogy exists between the growth we observe in the vegetable kingdom and that of the intellectual, we should expect to find the same variety in the expression of human belief that we seek in the development of tree and flower. Every tree is not an oak, nor every flower a rose, but each tree and flower is the expression in form and colour of its own inner life. In the same manner the mind was intended to be free to develop according to its own light, and any attempt to coerce it into a defined groove is an interference with the natural order of things. To condemn those who in matters of religion do not conform to our standards is, therefore, as unreasonable as to find fault with an oak tree because it is not an elm.
— John  Daniel, The Philosophy Of Ancient Britain
For (Levi) Grossman, no books feel more like home than C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia, which provide the template for what he likes to read—and how he wants to write.
— Joe Fassler
Most economic histories of the "world" not only omit most extra-European production and exchange (even most of that outside West Europe or even northwest Europe); they neglect the participation of the productive and exchange activities of extra-European countries in the European, not to say world, process of accumulation and development. Moreover, they disregard the part that these productive and exchange relations played in the developing world system.
— André Gunder Frank, World Accumulation 1492-1789
Can I be forgiven for all I've done to get here?I don't know. I don't know.please.-Tris, DivergentCan I be forgiven for all I've done to get here?I want to be.I can.I believe it.-Tris, Allegiant
— Veronica Roth
The best way to develop people is to constantly get them out of their comfort zone.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
Who constitutes the nation? Only the elite?Or do the hundreds of millions of poor in India also make up the nation? Are their interests never identified with national interest? Or is there more than one nation? That is the question you often run up against in some of India's poorest areas. Areas where extremely poor people go into destitution making way for firing ranges, jet fighter plants, coal mines, power projects, dams, sanctuaries, prawn and shrimp farms, even poultry farms. If the costs they bear are the 'price' of development, then the rest of the 'nation' is having one endless free lunch.
— P.Sainath
School education will grant you a job. Development in life will grant you wise brain.
— Sameh Elsayed
It's not all that important that you be able to originate brilliant ideas... The more important talent is to be able to recognize good ideas from other people.
— Eric S. Raymond
The crisis is a period in which a diseased social, economic, and political body or system cannot live on as before and is obliged, on pain of death, to undergo transformations that will give it a new lease on life. Therefore, this period of crisis is a historical moment of danger and suspense during which the crucial decisions and transformations are made, which will determine the future development of the system if any and its new social, economic, and political basis.
— André Gunder Frank
The formal operational thinker has the ability to consider many different solutions to a problem before acting. This greatly increases efficiency, because the individual can avoid potentially unsuccessful attempts at solving a problem. The formal operational person considers past experiences, present demands, and future consequences in attempting to maximize the success of his or her adaptation to the world.
— Neil J. Salkind, Theories of Human Development
A city is not an accident but the result of coherent visions and aims.
— Leon Krier, The Architecture of Community
I believe that even 'returning-to-nature' and anti pollution activities, no matter how commendable, are not moving toward a genuine solution if they are carried out solely in reaction to the over development of the present age.
— Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution
Gen. Matthew Ridgeway "intended not to impose his will on his men, but to allow the men under him to find something in themselves that would make them more confident, more purposeful fighting men. It was their confidence in themselves that would make them fight well, he believed, not so much their belief in him. His job was to keep them to find that quality in themselves.
— David Halberstam, The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
One should continue (of course with dignity) to develop, however old one may be. She had nothing against developing, against further ripeness, because as long as one was alive one was not dead -obviously, decided Mrs. Fisher, and development, change, ripening, were life.
— Elizabeth von Arnim, The Enchanted April
Women have a role to play in global development.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Piaget-....A stage then, we may say, is an integrated set of operational structures that constitute the thought processes of a person at a given time. Development involves the transformation of such " structures of the whole" in the direction of greater internal differentiation, complexity, flexibility and stability. A stage represents a kind of balanced relationship between a knowing subject and his or her environment. In this balanced or equilibrated position the person assimilates what is to be "known" in the environment into her or his existing structures of thought. When a novelty or challenge emerges that cannot be assimilated into the present structures of knowing then, if possible, the person accommmodates, that is , generates new structures of knowing. A stage transition has occured when enough accommodation has been undertaken to require ( and make possible) a transformation in the operational pattern of the structural whole of intellectual operations.
— James W. Fowler, Stages of Faith: The Psychology of Human Development and the Quest for Meaning
It is in the nature of helping and counselling to be a process moving towards something rather than arriving at a state of completion.
— Pete Sanders, First Steps In Counselling: A Student's Companion for Basic Introductory Courses
Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged
— Jalaluddin Rumi
The highest result of education is tolerance
— Helen Keller
Love thy enemies, it says in the scriptures. My foster mother always added, "At the very least, you will be polite to them.
— Patricia Briggs, Moon Called
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
— Dalai Lama XIV
Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on "I am not too sure.
— H.L. Mencken
In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair...the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing, and remains alive because there is nothing for which it will die.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
Never judge someone By the way he looks Or a book by the way it's covered; For inside those tattered pages, There's a lot to be discovered
— Stephen Cosgrove
I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits.
— Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
The efficiency of the cleaning solution in liquefying wizards suggested the operation of an antithetical principal,which-" "Did you have to get him started?" Cimorene asked reproachfully.
— Patricia C. Wrede, Calling on Dragons
Discord is the great ill of mankind
—  and tolerance is the only remedy for it.
Do not deride someone's faith simply because you do not share it, Lord Cladent," Sazed said quietly.
— Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension
These days, it feels to me like you make a devil's pact when you walk into this country. You hand over your passport at the check-in, you get stamped, you want to make a little money, get yourself started... but you mean to go back! Who would want to stay? Cold, wet, miserable; terrible food, dreadful newspapers - who would want to stay? In a place where you are never welcomed, only tolerated. Just tolerated. Like you are an animal finally house-trained.
— Zadie Smith, White Teeth
The liberal idea of tolerance is more and more a kind of intolerance. What it means is 'Leave me alone
—  don't harass me
The Potter books in general are a prolonged argument for tolerance, a prolonged plea for an end to bigotry. And I think it's one of the reasons that some people don't like the books, but I think that's it's a very healthy message to pass on to younger people that you should question authority and you should not assume that the establishment or the press tells you all of the truth.
— J.K. Rowling
One race,Many cultures,One place.
— Geoffrey M. Gluckman, Deadly Exchange
As you walk, hop, hobble, or wheelMeeting people of different kinds, Remember that being handicappedIs only a state of mind
— Stephen Cosgrove, Fanny
A man must have a good deal of vanity who believes, and a good deal of boldness who affirms, that all the doctrines he holds are true, and all he rejects are false.
— Benjamin Franklin, A Benjamin Franklin Reader: The Essential Writings of a Colonial Sage
The days of me being "tolerant" are long gone. The days of me being "intolerant" have just begun.
— James D. Sass, Essays in Satanism
...what a surprise (we all know how tolerant the tolerant are)-...
— Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
If you are looking for a hate book you have come to the wrong place here. This book may be full of fact and discussion and even argument but it is out of concern, a concern that is not subject to some group partisan issues. It has opinion as well and this is most certainly what many critics will call many things in this book to the point that there will be whole essays of review that are just diatribes of psychological issues on both sides.
— Leviak B. Kelly, Religion: The Ultimate STD: Living a Spiritual Life without Dogmatics or Cultural Destruction
God has given us many faiths but only one world in which to co-exist. May your work help all of us to cherish our commonalities and feel enlarged by our differences.
— Jonathan Sacks
True openness is the accompaniment of the desire to know, hence of the awareness of ignorance. To deny the possibility of knowing good and bad is to suppress true openness.
— Allan Bloom
Our tolerance is part of what makes Britain Britain. So conform to it, or don't come here.
— Tony Blair
Giving freaks a pass is the oldest tradition in Montana.
— Thomas McGuane
No one has the right to force his or her way of life on anyone else.
— Frank Sonnenberg, Follow Your Conscience: Make a Difference in Your Life & in the Lives of Others
A tense account of the perils facing those who sought freedom in the lead-up to the Civil War.
— Publisher’s Weekly
Endurance makes the person strong and it's only give by God.
— Noor-us-Sahar
I will conclude this work with stating in what light religion appears to me.If we suppose a large family of children, who, on any particular day, or particular circumstance, made it a custom to present to their parents some token of their affection and gratitude, each of them would make a different offering, and most probably in a different manner. Some would pay their congratulations in themes of verse and prose, by some little devices, as their genius dictated, or according to what they thought would please; and, perhaps, the least of all, not able to do any of those things, would ramble into the garden, or the field, and gather what it thought the prettiest flower it could find, though, perhaps, it might be but a simple weed. The parent would be more gratified by such a variety, than if the whole of them had acted on a concerted plan, and each had made exactly the same offering. This would have the cold appearance of contrivance, or the harsh one of control. But of all unwelcome things, nothing could more afflict the parent than to know, that the whole of them had afterwards gotten together by the ears, boys and girls, fighting, scratching, reviling, and abusing each other about which was the best or the worst present.Why may we not suppose, that the great Father of all is pleased with variety of devotion; and that the greatest offence we can act, is that by which we seek to torment and render each other miserable? For my own part, I am fully satisfied that what I am now doing, with an endeavour to conciliate mankind, to render their condition happy, to unite nations that have hitherto been enemies, and to extirpate the horrid practice of war, and break the chains of slavery and oppression is acceptable in his sight, and being the best service I can perform, I act it cheerfully.I do not believe that any two men, on what are called doctrinal points, think alike who think at all. It is only those who have not thought that appear to agree…As to what are called national religions, we may, with as much propriety, talk of national Gods. It is either political craft or the remains of the Pagan system, when every nation had its separate and particular deity…
— Thomas Paine, Rights of Man
I believe what you believe and you believe what you believe and we'll agree to disagree. It's liberal tolerance meets dark ages denialism. It's very hip right now.
— Nathan Hill
If differences can be hidden, perhaps there aren't differences at all
— Mohsin Hamid, Moth Smoke
We can’t expect others to abandon their values any more than we would forsake our own.
— Frank Sonnenberg, Follow Your Conscience: Make a Difference in Your Life & in the Lives of Others
Foulmouthed individuals seem to have their neuron systems replaced by colon structures, given that their terminology profusely consists of "sh*t and f*ck". ("Tolerance zero")
— Erik Pevernagie
Intolerance is the natural concomitant of strong faith
—  tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty
I'm not issuing some naïve plea for civility or bipartisanship here, or pretending that the opposing sides in this fight are intellectually equal. We have irreconcilable visions of the kind of country we want this to be: some of us would just like to live in Canada with better weather; others want something more like Iran with Jesus. My cruelest hope for the Tea Party is that one of their candidates wins the nomination for the presidency and they implode of their hubristic stupidity. But at least when I hear about them now, instead of reflexively picturing some braying ignoramus like Michele Bachmann, I try to remember that Matt [a friend of the Author's, ed] is out in that crowd somewhere, too. God agreed to spare Sodom if ten good men could be found within its walls (Abraham had to haggle him down from fifty). He ended up napalming those perverts anyway but the basic principle of sparing the sinner for the sake of the righteous, or the shithead for the sake of the basically okay, remains sound.
— Tim Kreider, We Learn Nothing
What a most unreasonably stubborn man," he said. "One must be more open to opposing views in this world.""You don't say.""Oh, indeed! As our late father often said, 'Toleration is good for all or it is good for none.
— Daniel Stashower
Let’s talk about ‘Coexist’ bumper stickers for a second. You’ve definitely seen them around. They’re those blue strips with white lettering that assemble a collection of religious icons and mystical symbols (e.g., an Islamic crescent, a Star of David, a Christian cross, a peace sign, a yin-yang) to spell out a simple message of inclusion and tolerance. Perhaps you instinctively roll your eyes at these advertisements of moral correctness. Perhaps you find the sentiment worthwhile, but you’re not a wear-your-politics-on-your-fender type of person. Or perhaps you actually have ‘Coexist’ bumper stickers affixed to both your Prius and your Beamer. Whatever floats your boat, man; far be it from us to cast stones. But we bring up these particular morality minibillboards to illustrate a bothersome dichotomy. If we were to draw a Venn diagram of (a) the people who flaunt their socially responsible “coexist” values for fellow motorists, and (b) the people who believe that, say, an evangelical Christian who owns a local flower shop ought to be sued and shamed for politely declining to provide floral arrangements for a same-sex wedding, the resulting circles would more or less overlap.The coexist message: You people (i.e., conservatives) need to get on board and start coexisting with groups that might make you uncomfortable. It says so right here on my highly enlightened bumper sticker. But don’t you dare ask me to tolerate the ‘intolerance’ of people with whom I disagree. Because that’s different.
— Mary Katharine Ham
Contrary to popular definitions, true tolerance means 'putting up with error' - not 'accepting all views'. We don't tolerate what we enjoy or endorse - say, chocolate, or roses, or Mozart's music. By definition, we tolerate what we don't approve of or what we believe to be false.
— Paul Copan, True for You, But Not for Me: Deflating the Slogans that Leave Christians Speechless
No, forget love, the best we can hope to mould, given the poor Play-Doh of humankind, is a capacity for tolerance. This is achievable since tolerance is little more than indifference with a Dulux coat of manners. Surely we can manage that? Call me a dreamer but I can see a world where people of all races, creeds and colour will live together in harmony because they don't give a toss about each other.
— Ian Pattison
Thomas Henri Huxley often preached tolerance, but in practice he could not wait to go after religion and religious people in the most scornful of terms.[Curb your enthusiasm,2016]
— Michael Ruse
Toleration is good for all or it is good for none.
— Daniel Stashower, The Dime Museum Murders
What a most unreasonably stubborn man," he said. "One must be more open to opposing views in this world.""You don't say.""Oh, indeed! As our late father often said, 'Toleration is good for all or it is good for non.
— Daniel Stashower
Tolerance is not a synonym of Weakness
— Satyendra Singh 'Shyamal', Voice of Heart
One of the most wonderful things about Pride and Prejudice is the variety of voices it embodies. There are so many different forms of dialogue: between several people, between two people, internal dialogue and dialogue through letters. All tensions are created and resolved through dialogue. Austen's ability to create such multivocality, such diverse voices and intonations in relation and in confrontation within a cohesive structure, is one of the best examples of the democratic aspect of the novel. In Austen's novels, there are spaces for oppositions that do not need to eliminate each other in order to exist. There is also space - not just space but a necessity - for self-reflection and self-criticism. Such reflection is the cause of change. We needed no message, no outright call for plurality, to prove our point. All we needed was to reach and appreciate the cacophony of voices to understand its democratic imperative. There was where Austen's danger lay.
— Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran