Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes
Most of the world's major waterways have been diverted or dammed or otherwise manipulated - in the United States, only two per cent of rivers run unimpeded - and people now use half the world's readily accessible freshwater runoff.Elizabeth Kolbert
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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.
Barack Obama -
Although China and United States are competitors, China and the United States are indeed partners in trade.
Zhu Rongji -
I immigrated to the United States in 2001 for college.
Karan Mahajan -
It devolves upon the United States to help to motorize the world.
Walter Chrysler -
I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.
Harold Bloom -
The United States' gasoline industry, as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita demonstrated, is remarkably fragile. And the process of how oil is pumped from the ground, turned into gasoline and distributed to consumers is complicated.
Gary Miller Bad Brains
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Seven million ship cargo containers come into the United States every year. Five to seven percent only are inspected - five to seven percent.
Irwin Redlener -
I have not broken the laws of the United States or the laws of the Dominican Republic.
Sammy Sosa -
I'm interested in seeking projects no matter where, no matter if it is in the United States, whether in Chile, whether in Venezuela.
Kate del Castillo -
We're having the first computer-generated comic strip in the United States.
Majel Barrett -
In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster.
Randall Jarrell -
The United States should not frame its policy options in terms of doing nothing or unilaterally sending in the Marines.
Samantha Power
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We have a lot of Brazilians in the United States. It doesn't mean we're traitors to our country.
Rafael dos Anjos -
We can see our liberties vanishing here in the United States... A little bit here and a little piece there... We can see it, we can feel it, and we can hear it.
G. Edward Griffin -
I can get a firestorm going anywhere in the United States by saying 'O.J.'
F. Lee Bailey -
The U.S. has become a dumping ground for everybody else's problems.
Donald Trump -
People in the Middle East may consider the U.S. an evil hegemony that has tainted their culture, but when I look at the growth of racial and ethnic tolerance and understanding in my generation in the U.S., and see those sentiments make it around the world, it makes me feel proud.
Aloe Blacc -
I spoke last night with many of my counterparts and without exception there was overwhelming support for this action by the military coalition consisting of the United States and the United Kingdom.
Jack Straw
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Rivers are highways that move on and bear us whither we wish to go.
Blaise Pascal -
War is wrong. Conscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely the right to believe but to act on the degree of truth that one receives, to follow a vocation which is God-inspired and God-directed.
Bayard Rustin -
The real story of Detroit [...] can be summed up in seven words. Private enterprise built it, government destroyed it.
Peter Schiff -
Ah, what a warning for a thoughtless man, Could field or grove, could any spot of earth, Show to his eye an image of the pangs Which it hath witnessed,-render back an echo Of the sad steps by which it hath been trod!
William Wordsworth -
Most of the world's major waterways have been diverted or dammed or otherwise manipulated - in the United States, only two per cent of rivers run unimpeded - and people now use half the world's readily accessible freshwater runoff.
Elizabeth Kolbert