civil-servants

"My husband is already suffering because of the fate that befell him. We are asking for no special treatment from the government; we are just pleading for some humanity, for some respects for the human right to seek the best treatment to cure his ailment."

"And even if some may have already recovered after the floodwaters have receded, they may still find it difficult to return to work if their companies or employers’ businesses have also been hit by floods."

"I have served the people well. I gave my all and I am proud to say that my integrity remains intact and I have never wanted to lose sight of the people I have sworn to serve with full fidelity and courage."

"The 13th-month pay is a core labor standard and the Department of Labor and Employment will not compromise on its payment by the employers to their workers."

"Yung pambabatikos nga na tuwing may national event, inaakusahan kaming itinatago namin ang mga bata. Pero kapag ginagawa naman namin ito na walang national event, hindi kami kinikibo. Ibig sabihin ko, ang akin na lang pagtingin, makikinig ako kung totoong meron kaming maling ginawa aking wawastuhin. ‘Yung mga kritikong para maging nega lamang, pinapasa-Diyos ko na lang ‘yun.” (We are criticized every time there is a national event, we are being accused of hiding the street children. But when we do this even if there is no national event, we are not noticed. In my point of view, I would listen [to the criticisms] and if we really do have shortcomings, I would correct them. The critics who just spread negativity, I just leave [their fate] up to the Lord.)"

"I want to take care of the teacher so that the teacher in turn will take care of our children, so in turn our children will take care of the future of the country."

"As much as possible, let us encourage women to stay in the country. Filipino men should strive to be productive so that their wives would not be forced to work abroad."

"I wish that the voice of reform will be heard in its proper context and not be drowned in malice."

"Да чего ты у меня просить хочешь. Если только, мой батюшка, не денег, то я всем ссудить тебя могу. Ты знаешь, каковы ныне деньги: ими никто даром не ссужает, а для них ни в чем не отказывают."

"I graduated from the University of Nairobi in 1974, with a Bachelor of Science, Honors degree, in Electrical Engineering; emerging as the first woman to attain an engineering degree in Uganda. My employment was mainly within Government, where I had the opportunity to train, acquire skills and gain experience in management and leadership. I am Registered Engineer and member of the Uganda Institution of Professional Engineers (UIPE) and served as a member of UIPE Executive Council for two years."

"Наука в развращённом человеке есть лютое оружие делать зло. Просвещение возвышает одну добродетельную душу."

"Не хочу учиться, хочу жениться."

"Вот злонравия достойные плоды!"

"Волшебный край! там в стары годы, Сатиры смелый властелин, Блистал Фонвизин, друг свободы."

"Начинаются чины — перестаёт искренность."

"It’s about everybody having an opportunity, everybody having the access and ability to follow their dreams."

"find your passion—the thing that makes you excited to wake up in the morning and bring your best self to work. Once you find that, it doesn’t feel like work."

"I was always passionate about learning, curiosity, and science, but once I realized I could contribute to space exploration, I knew it was a perfect fit."

"The most explicit mentioning of the Afghans appears in Al- Baruni’s Tarikh Al-Hind (eleventh century AD). Here it is said that various tribes of Afghans lived in the mountains in the west of India. Al Baruni adds that they were savage people and he describes them as Hindus."

"The... glimpses we have...of Hindus slain for disputing with Muhammadans , of general prohibitions against processions, worship and ablutions and of other intolerant measures, of idols mutilated, of temples razed, of forcible conversions and marriages, of proscriptions and confiscations, of murders and massacres, and of the sensibility and drunkenness of the tyrants who enjoined them, show us that this picture is not overcharged."

"I have never heard of a union celebrating and honoring a public official because it’s challenging to satisfy everyone, so I thank all of you."

"It is not inherent in our ability to tell things to come but we can learn from the past and the present to prepare for the future, therefore education is the key to unlocking the capability and socio-economic transformation of African nations."

"You know these sporting activities, you don’t have to take them for granted because if we are not healthy, we can’t give the country the best that we have."

"Any accounting officer of a local government who does not submit names of teachers and staff should be investigated and disciplined."

"Any teacher who is uncomfortable with the salary should instead leave the profession and do something else."

"Some teachers are deployed to schools that are fully established as excess yet there are schools that are in hard-to-reach areas which do not have enough teachers."

"Teachers should stop using the excuse of poor pay to abscond or report to work late."

"Between 1980 and 1983,I served as the principal personnel officer in the public service commission and as the chief public personnel officer in the public service commission till 1990.In 1990 I served as the deputy secretary in the public services review commission.later that year I was appointed commissioner for personnel management till 1996"

"It seems as if Nature had curiously plann'd That men's names with their trades should agree; There's Twining the Tea-man, who lives in the Strand, Would be whining, if robb'd of his T."

"Two Miltons in separate ages were born: The cleverer Milton 'tis clear we have got, Though the other had talents the world to adorn, This lives by his mews, which the other could not!"

"Cease your humming; The case is "on"; Defendant's Cumming, Plaintiff's—gone!"

"The African women conceived the idea of the Womens Peace Train from Kampala to Johannesburg during the Second Preparatory Committee of the United Nations World Summit for Sustainable Development (WSSD). The objective of the Womens Peace Train (WPT) was to pass on a strong message to the continent leaders, war mongers, armies, guerrillas, arms traders, and dealers in the African continent that women wanted peace and stability for their children. In its ten-day journey across seven countries, the Peace Train called upon the ringleaders and perpetrators of wars in Africa to end them forthwith. Arguing that women in Africa bear the brunt of the war burden, African women saw the WSSD as a good opportunity to campaign for the end of these wars and used the peace train to pass on the peace message."

"An arch wag has declar'd, that he truly can say Why the Prince did not lay the first stone t'other day: The Restrictions prevented — the reason is clear; The Regent can't meddle in making a pier."

"Shelley styles his new poem "Prometheus Unbound," And 'tis like to remain so while time circles round; For surely an age would be spent in the finding A reader so weak as to pay for the binding!"

"Aid Evaporation is a new Nortion. It is based on an academic study that comprehensively examined how ODA is governed from the source to the destination. Key ODA parameters emerged from the existing ODA governance frameworks namely; mechanism, ideology, development approach and processes. By unpacking elements contributing to aid ineffectiveness through these parameters, exploring the existence of the aid evaporation and examining the key enablers of ODA Evaporatoon, the study discovered supply side factors contributed significantly to Aid ineffectiveness. It exposed different AID Evaporation enablers which play different hidden functions such as ODA Door Openers, Appetixers, Softeners, Sponges, Convertors, Controllers, Distorters as well as Carrot and Stick among others. Key findings revealed that the prevailing perception that aid ineffectiveness was a demand side problem was only part of the story because supply side challenges were probably more responsible for billions of ODA that could not be accounted for. It has recommended the re-writing of the narrative that ODA ineffectiveness is predominantly premised on demand side by incorporating supply side factors. Findings demonstrated that while there were indeed demand side challenges such as bad governance, corruption and lack of strong institutions, there were also supply (donor) side challenges such as over-reliance of donor's own inefficient ODA governance frameworks as well as ODA delivery mechanisms, the entrenchment of bilateral interest in ODA processess and geo- political interests among other factors. In this regard, the study confirmed that the 62% of the ODA that could not be accounted for according to existing literature was either held up in the pipeline or evaporates mostly from the supply side. This finding brought clarity on the weak impact of ODA and corroborated with existing literature on the mystery of unaccounted ODA. While the notion of aid evaporation emerged as an attribution and part of a reflection on the problem of ODA dissipation at the preliminary stage of the literature review, it became the central issue of focus throughout the research investigation which involved substantive field work to bring clarity on the problem. The study has made theoretical and practical contributions to the existing concepts on ODA governance and proposed a new concept, namely the “Supply Baggage Concept”. The new concept should inform the Post Paris era in achieving Aid effectiveness by weding out Evaporation, using the Aid Evaporation Detection Framework proposed in this book"

"Cease, ye Etonians! and no more With rival wits contend: Feathers, we know, will float in air, And bubbles will ascend."

"This pair in matrimony Go most unequal snacks: He gets all the Honey, And she gets all the whacks."

"When Anacreon would fight, as the poets have said, A reverse he display'd in his vapour, For while all his poems were loaded with lead, His pistols were loaded with paper. For excuses, Anacreon old custom may thank, Such a salvo he should not abuse, For the cartridge, by rule, is always made blank, That is fired away at Reviews."

"Am a mother and every mother has to deal with difficult situation so definitely in terms of stress, terms or whatever it takes I will be okay."

"What they presented to us was that they were looking for somebody who is incorruptible, who has competence, and who is interested in job creation, quality education, quality health, somebody who has proven him or herself and somebody who can stand firm for what is right."

"It’s very nice and encouraging that you are chosen from a process that you are not even aware off and that is all structured and it’s based on criteria, and that I wasn’t selected because I happen to be a woman."

"But the insults must stop, if they don't stop it won't stop me, I will go ahead, I have a team with me and I think that I have Ghana with me. Because all want to develop Ghana so if people will throw mud that won't be a big deal."

"We had a lot of women’s associations from legal, security, education and from human rights. They were all there and they were all supportive and actually spoke and said they were very happy that the PPP has kept its promise."

"Daddy, that's what we all call him. We come from the Ahmed's Family of the Aguchimeachi Family... as an Ahmed was an Ahmed. Ahmed Family of the Aguchimeachi Family. I grew in and out of his house, Mummy was the eldest I was the youngest. So it's kind of a fair place that I moved in with her when she was into her business. And honestly and sincerely, daddy has always being a true brother to me. He supports that we were never ever discriminate against. He was there for us at all times..."

"In the earlier part of his memoir, Sir Bartle Frere had compared our mode of treating uncivilized races to that of the Romans. He heartily wished that the resemblance held in certain essential points. Our military hold was as firm, our tolerance of local customs was as great, our dealings were as just, and more just than theirs. But we did not amalgamate with them as the Romans did, we did not intermarry; by means of our missionaries we pressed upon them a form of religion which was not the most congenial. Our civilization was stiff. This, and much more, was pointed out in a very able and most pathetic memoir by Mr. Blyden, the present Minister of Liberia to England, who is a full-blooded negro. The article appeared in ``Frazer’s Magazine some years ago, and it showed the repressive effect of White civilization upon the Negroes, as contrasted with that of the Mohammedans. It was a shame to us as an Imperial nation, that representatives of the many people whom we governed, did not find themselves more at home among us. They seldom appeared in such meetings as the present one; they did not come to England. We did not see them in the streets. It was very different in ancient Rome, where the presence of foreigners from all parts of the then known world was a characteristic feature of every crowd. He did not now suggest any action, but merely wished to lay stress on this serious drawback to our national character as rulers of a great Empire. He thought they were greatly indebted to Sir Bartle Frere for introducing to public notice so important a subject as the best form of conduct of civilized races towards their less civilized neighbours, and he trusted that it would meet with that full and many-sided discussion which so important a question deserved."

"The Bhagavad Gita is one of the noblest scriptures of India, one of the deepest scriptures of the world ... a symbolic scripture, with many meanings, containing many truths .... [that] forms the living heart of the Eastern wisdom."

"What we generally fall to realize is that in talking today to the IndIans we are face to face with the direct descendants, as often as not, of people who were contemporaries of Ancient Egypt, and whose present culture, in most of its mam essentials, is nearly the same as It was then, and is in any event directly descended from that age, and even possibly before it."

"The writers of the Indian philosophies will survive, when the British dominion in IndIa shall long have ceased to exist, and when the sources which it yielded of wealth and power are lost to remembrances."

"I hesitate not to pronounce the Gita a performance of great origmality, of sublimity of conception, reasoning and diction almost unequalled; and a single exception, amongst all the known religions of mankind."

"[Hastings] recognizes that in public he is taken to be Christian but then, he admits, in "hipocricy [sic], . . . prudence or rather necessity imposed silence." But, "I am unable not unwilling to receive and understand. What my inability is founded on I cannot to a certainty determine." To me, though, it is very clear. He cannot see anything that distinguishes Christianity from the other religions about which he knows. "Is the incarnation of Christ more intelligible than . . . those of Bishen?" Europeans prevail over non-Europeans not because of the superiority of Christianity but for secular reasons: "a free government, cold climate and printing and navigation." Christianity does not make people "better." "Let those who know the lower uneducated class in England . . . say how much more rarely crimes are committed in England than in India.""