Ertharin Cousin Quotes

#1. We recognize that the majority of people who are food-insecure or hungry in the world live in rural areas. And most of them are small holder subsistence farmers.

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#2. Our goals and what we hope to achieve by moving to food assistance is even in supporting the crisis needs of the most vulnerable people, we provide them with the capacity to be more resilient to the next shock.

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#3. If we're afraid to stand in our own skin with those we work with, then how do we lead those who have no voice at all?

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#4. Let me just say, I think there's a reasonable criticism to be made of the Obama administration on the way that it left Iraq.

Dexter Filkins

#5. I wrote the first draft of my first novel at Michigan, and then I wrote the first draft of 'Salvage the Bones' at Stanford. So I workshopped the entire thing.

Jesmyn Ward

#6. Judo helps us to understand that worry is a waste of energy.

Kano Jigoro

#7. When you're providing emergency aid, you're fighting hunger; you're filling stomachs.

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#8. This world's a bubble.

Saint Augustine

#9. Unfortunately, the world pays attention when the media shines a light on those in need, which is why it's so important that we maintain the global public will that is necessary to meet the needs of those we serve.

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#10. There's a place inside of you where you can retreat and enjoy perfect stillness.

Doreen Virtue

#11. The people in the United States are some of the most generous people in the world. We saw it in Haiti. We saw it with Katrina. When devastation strikes, American people want to step up.

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#12. When people are hungry, when a mother or father is facing a child that they can't feed, you can't ask that family to lay down their arms.

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#13. If you give people peanuts, you get monkeys. So if you want good people that are highly qualified, make the amount of money available for them to go out and do the job.

Lindsay Fox

#14. Don't ever take a seven-year-old with you to a campaign dinner - they will embarrass you no end.

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#15. I consider myself a persuasive person. With the ability to persuade comes a certain level of power.

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#16. I'm lucky. As soon as I open my mouth, people see I know what I'm talking about, and when I leave the room, I think most say, 'She's OK.'

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#17. The darkness was memory.

Jodi Meadows

#18. One of my strengths is my ability to talk and communicate with people.

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#19. Too often, as a global community of humanitarians, we meet the needs of the same families, the same individuals, the same communities crisis after crisis, when we are focused on meeting crisis needs but not on building resilience.

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