Top 64 Quotes About Yong

#1. Live as a stranger on the earth.
For this earth of ours is no planet.

Rasu-Yong Tugen

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#2. If I care about poverty, I have to care a lot about investments in the private sector. The private sector creates the vast majority of jobs in the world, and social protection only goes so far.

Jim Yong Kim

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#3. If you look at three diseases, the three major killers, HIV, tuberculosis and malaria, the only disease for which we have really good drugs is HIV. And it's very simple: because there's a market in the United States and Europe.

Jim Yong Kim

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#4. I like to change people's sense of what's possible.

Jim Yong Kim

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#5. There will be water and food fights everywhere.

Jim Yong Kim

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#6. She was beautiful, without comparison, but she exuded and icy and emotionless aura. She was as hard and as cold as ice and it was difficult to tell whether she was pleased or angry.

Jin Yong

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#7. The water issue is critically related to climate change. People say that carbon is the currency of climate change. Water is the teeth.

Jim Yong Kim

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#8. The people your brother killed - well, they all had souls. They weren't Satan. Ryu Yohan wasn't Satan, either. His faith was twisted, that's all. I know now. I know that God is innocent. (2007: 143)

Hwang Sok-yong

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#9. North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.

Barbara Demick

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#10. Why is it that when it comes to our most cherished social goal [health care], we not only tolerate poor execution, sometimes we even celebrate it?

Jim Yong Kim

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#11. For to be yong I wald not, for my wis, Off all this warld to mak me lord and king: The more of age, the nerar hevynnis blis.

Robert Henryson

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#12. I've always been engaged in social protection programmes.

Jim Yong Kim

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#13. Today there are a lot places where people say they're just hopeless. If I can come from a hopeless country, get an education, become a hyphenated American and become president of the World Bank, it's my moral duty to make sure that every single person on the planet has that opportunity.

Jim Yong Kim

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#14. I'm trying to tell people that I am happy the way I am. But why do people have to call my happiness a failure?

Kim Ung-yong

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#15. People hated and killed each other back then. Now even those who survived are dying, leaving this world one by one. Unless we find a way to forgive one another, none of us will ever be able to see each other again. (2007: 88)

Hwang Sok-yong

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#16. Even if you are alive somewhere, the absence of the other person who used to be there beside you obliterates your presence. Everything in the room, even the stars in the sky, can disappear in a second, changing one scene for another, just like in a dream.

Hwang Sok-yong

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#17. You talk too much." "You are a real communicator!" "Stop daydreaming." "You are creative!" "Don't be so bossy." "You are confident!" "Stop wiggling. Sit still." "You were born to move!

Yong Pratt

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#18. What we have found is that because of smartphones and access to media, and because everybody knows how everyone else lives, you have no idea where the next huge social movement is going to erupt.

Jim Yong Kim

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#19. Hope is a moral choice.

Jim Yong Kim

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#20. 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.

Jim Yong Kim

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#21. My father came by himself across the North Korean border when he was seventeen. And hasn't seen his brothers or sisters or parents since then. And he died some time ago, but never saw any of his relatives. My mother was a refugee in war-torn Korea.

Jim Yong Kim

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#22. Institutionalized discrimination is bad for people and for societies. Widespread discrimination is also bad for economies. There is clear evidence that when societies enact laws that prevent productive people from fully participating in the workforce, economies suffer.

Jim Yong Kim

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#23. I've spent my entire life working to invest in human beings and human communities, to help them move down the path of economic development.

Jim Yong Kim

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#24. Look at the problem of drug-resistant TB in the world. Look at HIV in the world. What's going to be required for everybody in the long run is the ability to do complex health interventions in poor settings.

Jim Yong Kim

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#25. Women are walking around on the streets. From her calf and the hem of her skirt to her hip, from her hair to the high heels on her feet, a young woman is freedom. Especially when you look at her from afar.

Hwang Sok-yong

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#26. The relationship between the prefrontal cortex and the amygdala fundamentally changes with meditation.

Jim Yong Kim

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#27. How can this 'I' be said to have any being other than as a pattern of movement in Heaven and Earth's unfolding union.

Douglas J. Penick

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#28. As palaeontologist Andrew Knoll once said, "Animals might be evolution's icing, but bacteria are really the cake.

Ed Yong

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#29. Economic development and poverty alleviation are so complicated that I don't think there's a single background or a single discipline that is sufficient to tackle these great human problems.

Jim Yong Kim

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#30. We have to find climate-friendly ways of encouraging economic growth. The good news is we think they exist

Jim Yong Kim

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#31. Within 24 hours of moving into a new place we overwrite it with our own microbes, turning it into a reflection of ourselves.

Ed Yong

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#32. When you're working on development issues, optimism is not always based on rational analysis, often it is a moral choice.

Jim Yong Kim

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#33. Haiti's economy cannot be built by and benefit just a privileged few. It must be built by and benefit all Haitians.

Jim Yong Kim

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#34. It is better to beAn old man's derling than a yong man's werling.

John Heywood

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#35. As it turns out, the atrocities we suffered were committed by none other than ourselves, and the inner sense of guilt and fear sparked by this incident helped form the roots of the frantic hatred that thrives to this day. (2007: 9)

Hwang Sok-yong

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

Jim Yong Kim

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#37. Carbon is the currency of how you measure climate change, but water will be the teeth.

Jim Yong Kim

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#38. Maybe what really matters is technology's power to enable students to reach a vast and real audience that they could never dream of in the traditional classroom.

Yong Zhao

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#39. I feel like I'm calmer, I'm kinder, I'm more patient the more I do my own meditation.

Jim Yong Kim

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#40. I want to eradicate poverty. I think that there's a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank.

Jim Yong Kim

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#41. One of the things I had to really work on is, when you're the leader of an organization, people look at the expression on your face. Your mood has a lot to do with how people think the whole organization is doing.

Jim Yong Kim

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#42. We need to have a plan equal to the challenge.

Jim Yong Kim

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#43. The mere presence of a guitar in someone's bedroom doesn't make them Slash.

Ed Yong

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#44. World Bank is a bank that's focused on economic development and poverty alleviation.

Jim Yong Kim

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#45. Water and sanitation has not had the same kind of champion that global health, and even education, have had.

Jim Yong Kim

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#46. We are watching things happen with one degree changes in ocean temperature that we thought wouldn't happen until there were two or three degree changes in ocean temperature. These are facts.

Jim Yong Kim

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#47. Forget Orson Welles, and heed Walt Whitman: "I am large, I contain multitudes."5

Ed Yong

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#48. Their incompatible appearances have actually made them more compatible ... Some people said that when a couple comes together ... they will compliment each others shortcomings

Bae Yong-joon

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#49. Ending poverty and ensuring sustainability are the defining challenges of our time. Energy is central to both of them.

Jim Yong Kim

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#50. They were happy to help someone, to succeed at something, even if they weren't to benefit. We'd been trying to touch the sky from the bottom of the ocean. I realised that if we boosted one another, maybe we'd get a little closer.

Hwang Sok-yong

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#51. A lot of young people don't think they can make a difference. That's really what I am at Dartmouth to do. I'm there to tell the young people, 'Look, a few committed souls can change the world.'

Jim Yong Kim

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#52. Unless you invest in people, you are not going to see growth in the long term, the medium term, and maybe even the short term.

Jim Yong Kim

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#53. One of the lessons of leadership worth emphasizing is that you want to get to know other great leaders and take their advice. At some point in your development, it's only people who've been in the seat of having to be leaders who can help you in a deep way.

Jim Yong Kim

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#54. God too, has sinned, that's what I used to think. He looked down on this blazing hell, and he remained silent. (2007: 142)

Hwang Sok-yong

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#55. I'm truly grateful to all of the family. However I'm very sorry at the same time. I didn't make many appearances in 'Dream High.' I hope to show you all a better side of me next time.

Bae Yong-joon

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#56. A tale where the knight kills the princess and rescues the demon lord.

Kim Yong-Hwan

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#57. If we do not act to curb climate change immediately, we will leave our children and grandchildren an unrecognizable planetIt is the poor, those least responsible for climate change and least able to afford adaptation, who would suffer the most.

Jim Yong Kim

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#58. In my own view, the life expectancy of Native Americans in the United States is one of the really great moral crises that we face.

Jim Yong Kim

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#59. Speaking of palms, your right hand shares just a sixth of its microbial species with your left hand.19

Ed Yong

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#60. Social media has changed the world forever. We're not going to go backwards. People are not going to accept being poor, accept being excluded anymore.

Jim Yong Kim

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#61. Live the life you choose and enjoy the happiness and regret that comes with that life.

~Yong-Kum

Lee Eun

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#62. Many people could benefit from meditation.

Jim Yong Kim

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#63. Pages burnt, memories buried, I wake
or think I'm awake. Or dreaming still?

Yong Shu Hoong

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#64. The great heart of comrade Kim Jong Il has ceased.

Kim Yong-nam

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