"When a jumbo jet crashes, we will rush in with assistance, but we forget that each day 30,000 children die unnecessarily from poverty-related preventable causes - equivalent to 100 jumbo jets crashing every day."

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Source : "In Quotes: UN World Summit". news.bbc.co.uk. September 16, 2005.

Benjamin Mkapa

#Children Quotes #Each Day Quotes #Poverty Quotes

“True beauty comes from the inside out. It emerges from proper thinking, as well as proper nutrition and exercise.”
“My grandfather killed himself falling off the dike in Ostend while photographing my two cousins. This can happen so easily when looking through a lens: for a split second nothing else exists outside the frame.”
“... military intelligence is a meaningless phrase because the two words are mutually exclusive ...”

Source : Lucille Kallen (1987). “C.B. Greenfield: A Little Madness”
“The effect of prizes on one's career - if that is what to call it - is considerable, since they give one more clout with publishers and more notoriety among journalists. The effect on one's writing, however, is nil - otherwise, one would be in deep trouble.”
“I think things like food, the food of the south is sort of the common tie that binds us all, Black and White, the sense memories. It's a very particular part of the country.”
“Wisdom never comes to those who believe they have nothing left to learn.”
“What is research but a blind date with knowledge?”
“If we are to put the past on trial, where do we stop?”

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