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"We need to promote development that does not destroy our environment."
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"The years nineteen and twenty are a crucial stage in the maturation of character, and if you allow yourself to become warped when you're that age, it will cause you pain when you're older."
"The higher the proportion of adults with low literacy proficiency is, the slower the overall long-term GDP growth rate is."
"I don't know how - it is a question of process."
"Develop your prayer language, increase your prayer coverage."
"Our self- development is all about cultivating the traits that we need to achieve our life purpose, success and to carry out our mission."
"Positive attitude toward time management would accelerate our economic development as we have never seen before."
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"I am working to make sure we don't only protect the environment, we also improve governance."
"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."
"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."
"Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve."
"It is important to nurture any new ideas and initiatives which can make a difference for Africa."
"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."
"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."
"It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees."
"We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible."
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