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"Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time."

"Today and now I hate this words they sound horrible, sound powerful and you just get more older and more older. I just said them when I was 9, now I'm 16 soon I will be 17. And again I use them "now" and "today" you can also say "no" but it's now 18:07 after five blinks with the eyes it just becomes 18:08, I hate today. Everyone uses it, but it's for two different places I also use today, for me is 4.10.2016, but for you this is past, and your today is 4.10.2026..."

"For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible."

"Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them."
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"The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself."

"Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people."

"Time is one ramp putting you in the place going down by bus, but if you decide on this stop to stop and to run backward you will be there, but in different time and day... But this what has happen makes a big scar, look me my father is dead 25 days + 3 = 28 days from his dead, he suicided 27, so yesterday was the 27 day."
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"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."


"We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible."


"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."


"It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees."


"I am working to make sure we don't only protect the environment, we also improve governance."


"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."


"It is important to nurture any new ideas and initiatives which can make a difference for Africa."
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