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Quotes About Papua New Guinea

In fact, the US is the only country besides Papua New Guinea that doesn't mandate paid leave. The United States. The country of family values.
~ Aimee Molloy
merely bringing up facts that were well known in the scientific community, but perhaps best not discussed in public. A Papua New Guinea language has a term for this, Mokita. It means 'truth that we all know, but agree not to talk about.
~ Richard J. Herrnstein
In India, just so you know, May 3 is National Broken Hearts Day. And in Papua New Guinea, there exists a tribe whose men write mournful love songs called namai, which tell the tragic stories of marriages which never came to pass but should have.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
I've played in some spectacularly scenic grounds in Cape Town and Johannesburg, but Papua New Guinea in the Seventies was the most remote place I'd been for my cricketing career.
~ Viv Richards
When they were in Papua New Guinea, God just totally grabbed a hold of Will's heart and totally changed him. And within three months he was saved and he's never looked back since.
~ Michael Scott
I think the Dutch certainly get British comedy. And let's face it; a lot of it is pretty low-hanging fruit for the whole world now. There are probably tribes in the heart of the Papua New Guinean rainforest that know all the words to the Dead Parrot sketch.
~ Rhianna Pratchett
It should be a national embarrassment that there are only four countries that offer no paid parental leave to anyone," says Kimmel. "And they are Lesotho, Swaziland, Papua New Guinea—and the United States.
~ Jancee Dunn
In effect, the Kutubu oil field functions as by far the largest and most rigorously controlled national park in Papua New Guinea.
~ Jared Diamond
The two populations with the next two lowest salt intakes, Brazil's Xingu Indians and Papua New Guinea Highlanders of the Asaro Valley, had the next two lowest blood pressures (100 over 62, and 108 over 63).
~ Jared Diamond