"We traditionally in this world didn't have enough calories to feed all of us and had huge famines, not just in Africa, but had them across India, across Southeast Asia, and across China. Because of Borlaug's work at Simit and because of this we have huge excess, until very recently, in agricultural produce and the prices went through the floor."

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Source : Source: bigthink.com

Juan Enriquez

#India Quotes #Excess Quotes #World Quotes

“I do not see myself as a footnote to someone else's life.”

Source : "Fictional character: Martha Gellhorn". "Hemingway & Gellhorn", www.imdb.com. 2012.
“There is such pressure on kids these days to be the best at everything.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When someone between twenty and forty says, apropos of a work of art, 'I know what I like,' he is really saying 'I have no taste of my own but accept the taste of my cultural milieu.”
“I've never said, 'I'm squeaky clean.' It's always the people who project that image that are hiding something. No one's squeaky clean.”
“Welfare has destroyed the African-American family by telling young black women that husbands and fathers are unnecessary and obsolete. â€¦ We have incentivized fornication rather than marriage, and it's no wonder we are now awash in the disastrous social consequences of people who rut like rabbits.”

Source : "New reality: You are what you tweet" by Jennifer Martinez, www.politico.com. May 05, 2011.
“If every four years in a presidential election, if you're a New Yorker or a Californian, and you realize that you are so much less important, that nobody is actually kind of targeting your needs because they're laser-focused on what will play in Florida and on what will play in Virginia.”

Source : Source: to.pbs.org
“If my life was a movie, no one would believe it.”
“When I was in university, my dream was to be a coach, like a high school track coach. Not to teach.”

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