#so

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

#committee #doing #going #humanity #i

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

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

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

#body #quitting #soul #wrinkles

Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

#give #skin #soul #up #wrinkle

Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

#ballad #career #close #duty #fade

Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

#been #behind #blindly #did #evil

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

— James MacArthur

#been #electrician #fortunately #happy #i

I just sold a farm in Missouri, and I own a ski lodge in Colorado with some Honolulu partners. ↗

— James MacArthur

#farm #honolulu #i #just #lodge

It's sometimes unnerving to think of that, and I wish it were possible for all children in the world to have the good fortune I've had in having a giving and loving family. ↗

— James MacArthur

#family #fortune #giving #good #good fortune