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There are limits to how much sound a cello can make. That's part of the framing of acoustical instruments. Finding what those limits might be, and then trying to suggest perhaps even the illusion of going beyond is part of that kind of effort. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

#cello #effort #even #finding #framing

I know there is pain when sawmills close and people lose jobs, but we have to make a choice. We need water and we need these forests. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#close #forests #i #jobs #know

It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#difference #little #little thing #little things #make

I am working to make sure we don't only protect the environment, we also improve governance. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#am #environment #governance #i #i am

There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#because #country #culture #cut #cutting

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

#be strong #brave #build #defeat #enough

You are remembered for the rules you break. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

#remembered #rules #you

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

#luck #make #you #yourself

Frankly - and believe me, I say this without any pretense - when I see the road I've taken, I have to say that thanks to good luck, because without good luck one can do nothing, I've come out pretty well. ↗

— James MacArthur

#because #believe #come #frankly #good

And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#been #everybody #great #great passions #happens