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Maurice Strong Quotes

We in the industrialized world make a greater difference because our ecological footprint, our impact on the condition of the environment, is 40 to 50 times larger than that of people in the developing world.

Maurice Strong

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

People World Impact Environment Than

I'm not afraid to say I'm competitive.

Andrew Luck

Say Afraid Competitive

How many women have the courage to start properly with a cold, cold bath early in the morning? I jump in, throw the water, cold as ice, and after the first plunge I am happy.

Anna Held

Women Morning Courage Water I Am

Basketball is booming, and it's not just an Under Armour standpoint: it's about the game itself. Kids going out and playing and being inspired by what we do on the court.

Stephen Curry

Basketball Game Out Playing Going

There is no substitute for kindness in the home. This lesson I learned from my father. He always listened to my mother's advice. As a result, he was a better, wiser, and kinder man.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Kindness Father Mother Home Man

Learning can take place in the backyard if there is a human being there who cares about the child. Before learning computers, children should learn to read first. They should sit around the dinner table and hear what their parents have to say and think.

Dixie Carter

Learning Children Child Parents

I've always been very upfront about the way I write, and I've always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration.

David Sedaris

Tools Way Write Always Used Been

The FCC can and indeed should do more to protect the Internet as the free and open environment people have come to expect and depend on - which is why we need to stand up to attacks on the FCC's authority.

Chellie Pingree

People Free Stand Up Stand Internet

I guess I'm attracted and repelled by isolation. It scares me. And it's why I tend to write about older characters, too, because for them the stakes are somewhat higher.

Conor McPherson

Me Isolation Why Write Because

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Respect Eyes Man Think Sin Say

The 'I think' which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the 'I breathe' which actually does accompany them.

William James

Think Said Breathe Must Able Them

Putting Zodiacs in front of whaling vessels doesn't do it anymore. Done that, been there, seen that.

Paul Watson

Done Seen Been Front Putting

It is very difficult to score goals in Italy.

Paulo Dybala

Goals Difficult Score Italy Very