"We have three billion people, half the world's population today, living on less than two dollars a day."

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Source : PBS Interview, www.pbs.org. April 23, 2001.

James Wolfensohn

#Two Quotes #People Quotes #Population Quotes

“Fear-bola attacks the part of the brain responsible for rational thinking. It starts with a low-grade concern about the two health care workers diagnosed with Ebola in Dallas and slowly builds into fear of a widespread epidemic in the United States.”

Source : "'Fear-bola' hits epidemic proportions" by Mel Robbins, www.cnn.com. October 15, 2014.
“The longer you wait, the more the jump rope becomes a big steel cable.”
“We`re not here for a long time, we`re here for a good time / Reach For the Sky, 'cause tomorrow may never come.”
“Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any story springs. The threads can always be traced back to some earlier tale, and the tales that preceded that; though as the narrator's voice recedes the connections will seem to grow more tenuous, for each age will want the tale told as if it were of its own making.”

Source : Clive Barker (2001). “Weaveworld”, p.7, Simon and Schuster
“An eminent American is reported to have said to friends who wished to put him forward, 'Gentlemen, let there be no mistake. I should make a good president, but a very bad candidate.”

Source : James Bryce (1920). “The American Commonwealth: Vol. 1: The National Government”, p.43, Jazzybee Verlag
“Once I was gone for a month and I was just miserable, so I flew back from Florida for two hours just to be home and see my cats.”
“I'd worried that letting her get too close would break me. Unfortunately, I'd worried about that a little too late. Because I was broken. The Cage I was before Eva no longer existed. As much as I didn't want to admit it, I'd fallen in love with her. I'd allowed someone in and she hadn't want me. I hadn't been good enough. I never was.”
“I prefer that Argentina wins the World Cup. Messi deserves it for all he has done in football. He's my friend, I wish him the best”

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