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We copied laws and regulations from western countries, but enforcement remains weak, and environmental litigation is still quite near impossible.
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In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible.
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I have never believed in the impossible.
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I think it is impossible to explain faith. It is like trying to explain air, which one cannot do by dividing it into its component parts and labeling them scientifically. It must be breathed to be understood.
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Nashville is the place where I first realized how impossible it is to look at someone and know what is inside them, what special something they possess.
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It is impossible for human beings not to view something subjectively.
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People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary.
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We must strictly enforce the Environmental Law, closing down the polluters that fail to meet the standards.
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I wish I could fly. Or speak fluent Chinese. Both I think are equally impossible.
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Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
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Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.
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I think legally we have to do 'fun' with a period. I think we agreed because apparently there was another band called 'fun.' We Google-searched, which now makes sense because we're so impossible to Google-search.
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There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.
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By uploading 40 years of 'Ecologist' editions online, we will be creating the world's most extensive ecological archive. 'The Ecologist' will continue to set the environmental and political agenda here and abroad.
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I have younger friends who are in this pinch where they feel they've been counted out before they've had a chance to prove themselves. They've inherited a lot of debt - not just student debt but environmental debt, political debt. They really feel squeezed.
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That's the big mistake the environmental movement made - 'We'll scare the hell out of you, and you'll become an activist'.
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I'm such an advocate for animal rights and environmental rights.
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Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the environment.
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The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality - what a joke. In my district, we caught them lying to us about the results of air quality studies in the Barnett Shale. They are playing with the health and safety of our communities, and we are going to tell them that is not acceptable.
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It is impossible that any people of government should ever prosper, where men render not unto God, that which is God's, as well as to Caesar, that which is Caesar's.
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You know when you have a good relationship with someone when you are just perfectly happy to be quiet and just hang out and do nothing.
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I remember, when I was at school, we would have a 10-minute storytelling session where we'd all sit on the floor cross-legged, and the teacher would read. It became something we all really looked forward to. That was part of the reason I grew to love stories.
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Pakistan is a free country, so according to me, in a free country, it's every right of the citizen to live the way they wish.
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Who are my influences? Everybody.
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We copied laws and regulations from western countries, but enforcement remains weak, and environmental litigation is still quite near impossible.
