"The problem of the food price is structural. The growth of demand cannot be checked in that it is coming from middle income countries demanding more quality and more quantity of food. High demand is here to stay."

-- Sri Mulyani Indrawati

#Country Quotes #Growth Quotes #Quality Quotes

“I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I love to play.”
“Well they're very, very genuine concerns at present as to the status of the 800 people who are to be sent by Australia to Malaysia. There's concern about the status of asylum seekers in Malaysia generally, but there's concern about the status of the 800 to be sent.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.”
“One third, more or less, of all the sorrow that the person I think I am must endure is unavoidable. It is the sorrow inherent in the human condition, the price we must pay for being sentient and self-conscious organisms, aspirants to liberation, but subject to the laws of nature and under orders to keep on marching, through irreversible time, through a world wholly indifferent to our well-being, toward decrepitude and the certainty of death. The remaining two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary.”
“I like to sit in the window and watch the cute boys walk by.”
“The American experiment has come and gone. Whatever freedoms the people still might have as their own, are monitored and registered and taxed at virtually every turn.”
“Great cities are not static, they constantly change and take the world along with them.”

Source : Edward Glaeser (2011). “Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier”, p.136, Pan Macmillan
“I am a sucker for jackets!”

Source : "Scrapbook: Stylemakers' Memories". Interview with Genevieve Bahrenburg, www.elle.com. September 10, 2010.

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