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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Stockholders are used to a certain kind of global capitalism. This version is very hard on the environment and very hard on people below a certain fiscal level. It is a calculated, systematic weakening of people. Many labour, a few benefit. Try talking about cleaning up the place with these people. The hostility is incredible.
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I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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When it comes to making love, I may not be the best, but I'm damn gouda.
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A good fighter usually knows, to within a very few seconds, when a three-minute round is going to end.
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I am working to make sure we don't only protect the environment, we also improve governance.
