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Although biodiversity loss continues globally, many countries are significantly slowing the rate of loss by shoring up protected natural areas and the services they provide, and in expanding national park systems with tighter management and more secure funding. ↗

— Helen Clark

#areas #biodiversity #continues #countries #expanding

Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality. ↗

— Helen Clark

#equality #gender #include #more #serious

The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination. ↗

— Sarah Fielding

#attend #being #horrible #imagination #liberty

As New Zealanders, we've been in on the United Nations from the very beginning, played a role in the drafting of the charter - it means a lot to us that those processes are followed. ↗

— Helen Clark

#beginning #charter #drafting #followed #lot

Business can talk itself into a blue funk. ↗

— Helen Clark

#business #funk #into #itself #talk

Fortunately New Zealand doesn't have land borders so we are able to be somewhat more rigorous on who gets in and out of our country than perhaps some people. ↗

— Helen Clark

#borders #country #fortunately #gets #land

I'm generally a very pragmatic person: that which works, works. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#i #person #pragmatic #very #which

Health and education are always issues. ↗

— Helen Clark

#education #health #issues

I don't know that you're ever going to persuade New Zealanders that they're not going to own their own homes and I'm not going to try. ↗

— Helen Clark

#going #homes #i #know #new

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. ↗

— Henry Fielding

#love #scandal #tea