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"We need to promote development that does not destroy our environment."
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"We cannot always build a future for our youth, but we can always build our youth for the future."
"It wasn't science and technology that cause a slow progress, but collective knowledge of the society and market demands."
"Your future is still before you. Your land is a vast storehouse of mineral and agricultural wealth awaiting further development for the benefit of mankind. It potentialities are magnificent."
"It seems like we are moving towards something, some kind of point and it is probably going to be an important point in our development or dissolution. That is what everybody seems to be thinking."
"The great hinderance to the development of this continent has lain in the lack of capital."
"Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development."
"We have new developing ties with Japan whom always supports our democratic process and economic development."
"The current administration has made the decision to cut dollars going for community development block grants, for various incentives to bring cities back."
"But sequence comparisons simply can't account for the development of complex biochemical systems any more than Darwin's comparison of simple and complex eyes told him how vision worked."
"I have been a part of this development, so I am very proud of it."
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"It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees."
"There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting."
"It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem."
"Some say that AIDS came from the monkeys, and I doubt that because we have been living with monkeys from time immemorial, others say it was a curse from God, but I say it cannot be that."
"Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve."
"We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible."
"It is important to nurture any new ideas and initiatives which can make a difference for Africa."
"I am working to make sure we don't only protect the environment, we also improve governance."
"In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace."
"African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence."
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