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When you think of all the conflicts we have - whether those conflicts are local, whether they are regional or global - these conflicts are often over the management, the distribution of resources. If these resources are very valuable, if these resources are scarce, if these resources are degraded, there is going to be competition. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

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

— Wangari Maathai

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I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

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You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people the knowledge, the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#adequately #africa #blame #cannot #economy

I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

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Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

#continuous #cry #emergency #fear #fervor

Who knows what kind of life I might have had had I not been fortunate enough to have the parents I've had. ↗

— James MacArthur

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Fortunately, I've also been an electrician, and that's a happy memory for me. ↗

— James MacArthur

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And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom I won't name, a good poet, and he reads in such a dry, boring way, your eyes start drooping. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#because #better #boring #drooping #dry

I don't care whether a book is a first edition or not. I'm not a bibliophile in that word's natural sense. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

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