Maurice Strong Quotes

The combination of population growth and the growth in consumption is a danger that we are not prepared for and something we will need global co-operation on.

Maurice Strong

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: businessman
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: April 29, 1929 - November 27, 2015

Topics

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I see the merit in religion, and I see the need for faith and hope and sometimes people who are more snide look at people who are religious, particularly people in rock bands, and they'll say, 'Oh that's dumb, you believe in whatever,' but I think everybody believes in something.

Andy Biersack

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A real pleasure is a pleasure that one enjoys by one's self, without a companion, and without a single argument.

Sholom Aleichem

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I remember Simon O'Donnell being struck with cancer during Australia's 1987 World Cup campaign. I know very well what it is like to have a teammate who has been struck with a potentially fatal disease. He fought through: managed to get himself back to 100% fitness and back to playing again.

Tom Moody

FitnessWorldRememberBackKnow

I was a sitting judge in Manhattan. I was a supervising judge in Manhattan, and they said to me, 'Did you ever think of doing what you do on television?'

Judy Sheindlin

MeThinkJudgeDoingYouTelevision

The primary goal of publishing general fiction and non-fiction was never profit - though profit was essential to stay in the game. Publishing is a vocation in which the work is its own reward, an insufficient goal for today's conglomerates.

Jason Epstein

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Two halves don't make a whole. Two wholes make a whole. In my relationship, I was giving myself away to make the relationship better, but in actuality, wasn't doing better by doing that. I became less of a man.

Jason Mraz

RelationshipMyselfManBetterDoing

A painting lets us know how somebody literally saw things. A piece of music is another language that transmits a whole wealth of emotion and wordless experience. But writing is special in the way at allows us to temporarily enter another person's world, to step outside the boundaries of our own time and space.

Claire Messud

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You shouldn't get too close to the truth, because then maybe you stop being funny.

Bob Newhart

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It is almost possible to predict one or two days in advance, within a rather broad range of probability, what the weather is going to be; it is even thought that it will not be impossible to publish daily forecasts, which would be very useful to soci.

Antoine Lavoisier

DailyWeatherImpossibleThought

Radium could be very dangerous in criminal hands.

Pierre Curie

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I'm always like 'I'm too skinny, I can't gain weight, even when I try.' I'd like to try to not let that get to me.

Shailene Woodley

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Forgiveness is important in families, especially when there are so many secrets that need to be healed - for the most part, every family's got them.

Tyler Perry

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