"With climate change and health crises rightfully receiving international attention, the time has come to focus on hunger as a top priority. WHO regards hunger and malnutrition as the gravest threat to public health, and climate change threatens to further destabilise already fragile food-production systems."

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Source : "The Challenge of Hunger". The Lancet Article, www.thelancet.com. January 17, 2008.

Josette Sheeran

#Focus Quotes #Priorities Quotes #Receiving Quotes

“Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.”
“Let me say here and now that faith has never done me any good, only doubt. So that is what has become my testament.”
“Women spend 80 cents of every dollar in the marketplace. We could be the most powerful force for economic and environmental change in the 21st century if we focused our money where it could make the biggest difference. If a million people did that, it would have a $1 billion impact.”
“I don't use a wallet. My money is just free-flowing in my bag.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Government has within it a tendency to abuse its powers.”
“Religion cannot and should not be replaced by atheism. Religion needs to go away and not be replaced by anything. Atheism is not a religion. It's the absence of religion, and that's a wonderful thing.”
“I'm not working now, so I'm sort of facing the unknown.”
“Sam Walton's values are: treat the customer right, take care of your people, be honest in your dealings, pass savings along to the customer, keep things simple, think small, control costs and continuously improve operations.”

Source : Michael Bergdahl (2004). “What I Learned From Sam Walton: How to Compete and Thrive in a Wal-Mart World”, p.3, John Wiley & Sons

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