"We will never end poverty if we don't tackle climate change."

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Source : "Transcript: Pre-Spring Meetings Bloggers Teleconference with World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim". www.worldbank.org. April 16, 2013.

Jim Yong Kim

#Climate Quotes #Poverty Quotes #Climate Change Quotes

“Art has arrived at the paradox that tradition itself requires the occurrence of radical attacks on tradition.”
“The Western approach to reality is mostly through theory, and theory begins by denying reality -- to talk about reality, to go around reality, to catch anything that attracts our sense-intellect and abstract it away from reality itself. Thus philosophy begins by saying that the outside world is not a basic fact, that its existence can be doubted and that every proposition in which the reality of the outside world is affirmed is not an evident proposition but one that needs to be divided, dissected and analyzed. It is to stand consciously aside and try to square a circle.”
“In general, I find that poets spend a lot of time thinking about themselves, and not a lot of time thinking about other poets, or other poetry. Unless they think about how it affects them, or how it could impact them.”
“If I started at 13, by the time I was 14 I was already good enough to play in front of people. I started off playing drums when I was 5, so playing in front of people didn't matter - not a problem.”
“Well, yeah! Now they're considered golden oldies, which is awesome. I was watching Little Women recently, and I didn't want to get up for fear of missing something. And Heathers is like my own Rocky Horror Picture Show; I recite the lines when it's on. It may seem odd, but I think it's because they're really good movies.”
“I played the game one way. I gave it everything I had. It doesn't take any ability to hustle.”
“Know this: Godâ€™s delays are not necessarily His denials. So keep praying.”
“All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.”

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