#population

The rise to prominence of the Saudi novel in Arabic is the great man-bites-dog of recent world literature. Saudi Arabia is a country without a free press, where European styles and forms are distrusted and where the female half of the population became literate only in this generation. ↗

— James Buchan

#arabic #became #country #distrusted #european

Well I actually do have a country house in Connecticut with a population of 3,000. Like, how small is that? I spend a lot of time there - I write up there. So I kind of have the best of both worlds and I love going up there. ↗

— Candace Bushnell

#best #both #connecticut #country #going

Like most of the world's population I'm into coffee, but in a properly big and important way. My perfect weekend would start with a pint of coffee. ↗

— Jimmy Carr

#coffee #i #important #important way #into

It's a wonderful thing to see a segment of our population that is open and eager to learn more about Chinese culture. It has filtered into the mainstream. You see credit-card ads on TV with white couples and Chinese babies. ↗

— Iris Chang

#ads #babies #chinese #chinese culture #couples

The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#divorce #divorces #duties #each #help

We've shown the world that New York can never be defeated, because of its dynamic and diverse population and because it embodies the spirit of enterprise and the love of liberty. And because no matter who you are, if you believe in yourself and your dream, New York will always be the place for you. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#because #believe #believe in yourself #defeated #diverse

Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

#fact #food #granted #half #hungry

Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the population and what they think. ↗

— Pierre Bourdieu

#facto #goes #heads #into #monopoly

Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed. ↗

— William Jennings Bryan

#completed #compute #entirely #manifestations #population

There is a hugely underserved population out there... those who are the least capable of paying pay the highest. ↗

— James Cameron

#highest #hugely #least #out #pay