"It takes 1,000 tons of water to produce 1 ton of grain. As water becomes scarce and countries are forced to divert irrigation water to cities and industry, they will import more grain. As they do so, water scarcity will be transmitted across national borders via the grain trade. Aquifer depletion is a largely invisible threat, but that does not make it any less real."

-- Lester R. Brown

#Country Quotes #Real Quotes #Aquifers Quotes

“False modesty is the masterpiece of vanity: showing the vain man in such an illusory light that he appears in the reputation of the virtue quite opposite to the vice which constitutes his real character; it is a deceit.”
“The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.”
“This is my first opportunity to visit this part of North Africa, so I am going to be able to go back home and talk about this beautiful country and encourage Americans to travel here.”
“The order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of things.”
“Make every decisionâ€”even decisions about whether to expand the business, raise money, or promote someoneâ€”according to what's best for your customers.”
“Allah is too big and open for my deen to be small and closed.”

Source : Michael Muhammad Knight (2004). “The Taqwacores”, p.185, Autonomedia
“All invention and progress comes from finding a link between two ideas that have never met.”
“If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.”

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