"Funding from rich countries to help the poor and vulnerable adapt to climate change is not even one percent of what is needed. This glaring injustice must be addressed at Copenhagen in December ."

-- Barbara Stocking

#Country Quotes #Climate Quotes #Helping Quotes

“Your Village may be different from other people's Villages, but we are all prisoners.”

Source : Interview with Warner Troyer in Toronto for the Ontario Educational Communications Authority, March 1977.
“Rough Johnson, the great moralist.”
“Above all, translators must be native speakers. It's not because they speak the language better -- I understand that sometimes a foreigner can learn a language better than native speakers. It has more to do with having an intimate knowledge of the society for which the book is being translated.”
“I never kick my ball in the rough or improve my lie in a sand trap. For that I have a caddie.”
“I heard this expression once: Each time someone dies, a library burns. Â I'm watching it burn right to the ground.”
“I always think if you have to cook once, it should feed you twice. If you're going to make a big chicken and vegetable soup for lunch on Monday, you stick it in the refrigerator and it's also for Wednesday's dinner.”
“To keep myself anonimys in the press is that I felt was the right thing to do, in terms of making music. It's just about letting people hear it and then deciding for themselves whether they want to find out more and discover it for themselves. Everything stems from that.”
“Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.”

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