"What happens when corn and wheat prices rise is that we see real increases in malnutrition and under-nutrition. And when children are malnourished, their brain development actually slows down and is affected. So this is not just a short-term impact."

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Source : "World Bank Issues Alarming Climate Report". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. December 7, 2012.

Jim Yong Kim

#Children Quotes #Real Quotes #Impact Quotes

“Life only makes any sense if we can see time how God does. Past, present, and future all at once.”
“I don't care how I got here. In the books, when you look at it 10 or 20 years from now, it's not going say how he got here, it's going to say he's here and he represented the team.”
“For official purposes, these children do not exist.”

Source : "Lone Wolf". Book by Robert Muchamore, August 1, 2014.
“Living was no longer the grief behind him, but the anxiety ahead.”
“A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.”

Source : GILBERT HIGHET (1950). “THE ART OF TEACHING”
“Looking at the huge number of transgender women of color who have been murdered since the beginning of the year - that we know of - the number has reached seven or eight at this point, maybe even nine, since the start of 2015. The number of those women involved in sex work is not a piece that gets lifted up in news reports. Sometimes people want to bury that, because they don't want to say anything that might make it seem as though those women were asking for it. We're still living with the idea that sex work somehow marks people as acceptable targets for violence.”
“How joyful to be together, alone as when we first were joined in our little house by the river long ago, except that now we know each other, as we did not then; and now instead of two stories fumbling to meet, we belong to one story that the two, joining, made. And now we touch each other with the tenderness of mortals, who know themselves”
“I wanted to work in either Miami or L.A. After Canada, I wanted warm weather”

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