"The fact that China has about seven percent arable land, means that she’s always going to be looking for places that have more arable lands to finance or to provide food stuffs."

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Source : "The New Maritime Silk Road". Interview with Parag Khanna, bigthink.com.

Dambisa Moyo

#Mean Quotes #Land Quotes #Stuff Quotes

“Villains!' I shrieked. 'Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here, here! It is the beating of his hideous heart!”
“I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try.”
“You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.”

Source : "Incredible Quotations: 230 Thought-Provoking Quotes with Prompts to Spark Students' Writing, Thinking, and Discussion". Book by Jacqueline Sweeney, 1997.
“They wrote that I'd gained 30 pounds over the summer and lost it in a week because I was dating three guys at once!”
“One day, when I was doing well in class and had finished my lessons, I was sitting there trying to analyze the game of tic-tac-toe... The teacher came along and snatched my papers on which I had been doodling... She did not realize that analyzing tic-tac-toe can lead into dozens of non-trivial mathematical questions.”
“I always go by instinct and then wrestle with where by instinct brought me.”
“I wanted to curl up into a fetal position and start sucking my thumb, let my tears and dripping saliva pool under me. Sorry. I tried living, tried being sentient. Can't do it. Can't live in the same universe with that.”
“Travel opens different eyes to different things, shows things we've never seen before, shows the world from entirely different angles. That's the power of drawing and the power of travel. They both make the familiar unfamiliar and vice versa. They show what we all have in common and what we may have missed thanks to preconceptions that may have marred our vision.”

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