Wangari Maathai Quotes
I am working to make sure we don't only protect the environment, we also improve governance.
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The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans. Many other Americans have Muslims in their families or have lived in a Muslim-majority country - I know, because I am one of them.
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I am not a slim person, so I regularly exercise to be healthy mentally and physically.
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I am in agreement with income-tax protesters that the tax, as commonly applied, is unconstitutional, unfair, and immoral.
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We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background.
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I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I am not religious.
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I am as passionate about the England team as anyone.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.
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One of the things that's really, really present in 'Between the World and Me' is, I am in some ways outside of the African-American tradition.
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Probably Romania and China and Russia. I think they're all working really hard to beat us right now.
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I love my body. And, I'm always working out. I'm an exercise freak, be it cardio, weights, t'ai chi or yoga.
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Strauss' water activities, which highlight both its social responsibility and commitment to the environment, meet a genuine need of people around the world today.
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The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
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When you take on something like your footprint on the environment, you have to say, 'Where am I going to draw the circle around my level of responsibility and then where do I assume that others will take responsibility?'
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I am shocked that Republicans can't explain why our technological and economic advantages are the result of sound monetary and economic policy.
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In working with those who are dying, I offer another human being a spacious environment with my mind in which they can die as they need to die. I have no right to define how another person should die. I'm just there to help them transition, however they need to do it.
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I am a record executive and I shall be right there in your face with my records.
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I grew up kind of self-supported, that kind of environment, because my parents both worked for airlines.
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We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
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The minister should preach as if he felt that although the congregation own the church, and have bought the pews, they have not bought him. His soul is worth no more than any other man's, but it is all he has, and he cannot be expected to sell it for a salary. The terms are by no means equal. If a parishioner does not like the preaching, he can go elsewhere and get another pew, but the preacher cannot get another soul.
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Female Viagra has been around for years...it's called money.
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God our Father, Jesus, our Elder Brother and our Redeemer, and the Holy Ghost, the Testator, are perfect. They know us best and love us most and will not leave one thing undone for our eternal welfare. Should we not love them for it and honor them first?
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I am working to make sure we don't only protect the environment, we also improve governance.
