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Maurice Strong

"I believe we are going to move into a situation where the more effective conferences will be smaller, more specialized, more focused, with occasional large gatherings to get the attention of the larger world."

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"I believe we are going to move into a situation where the more effective conferences will be smaller, more specialized, more focused, with occasional large gatherings to get the attention of the larger world."

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A.E. Samaan

"I need attention?No...I need victim....!"

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A.E. Samaan

"Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere... You don't have to dress up, for instance, and you can't hear them boo you right away."

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A.E. Samaan

"N order to capture someone's attention, you must allow them to have the mental and emotional space to let you in."

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A.E. Samaan

"Better ignore it than halfheartedly listen!"

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A.E. Samaan

"Make It Fun. Have you ever been publicly acknowledged or called upon in a room filled with people? Depending on your personality type, it can be either exhilarating or mortifying. It certainly does grab your attention, as well as everyone else's!"

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A.E. Samaan

"If you feel obsessed to prove something to the world, then you'd need world attention to be able to prove it."

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A.E. Samaan

"The turning point for me was when the Supreme Court installed Bush in 2000, even though he got half a million votes less nationally than Gore. It was nothing more than a bloodless coup and that's when I really started paying attention."

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A.E. Samaan

"As a scientist, my attention became totally focused on global warming some 15 years ago by the elegant and powerful measurements of carbon dioxide trapped in ice cores taken as much as 2 miles deep from the great East Antarctica ice sheet."

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A.E. Samaan

"You've had some terrific print information that gets everybody's attention in this town."

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"The interparliamentary conference should, in my opinion, direct its particular attention to the preparation of the next Hague Conference, the diplomatic conference, the conference of governments."

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Maurice Strong
"The Prime Minister of India, at a meeting that I co-chaired a few months ago, stated that any development that is not sustainable is not development."

Development

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Maurice Strong
"Licences to have babies incidentally is something that I got in trouble for some years ago for suggesting even in Canada that this might be necessary at some point, at least some restriction on the right to have a child."

Population

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Maurice Strong
"We must, from here on in, all go down the same path... There may not be another chance."

Chance

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Maurice Strong
"If you want to maintain a sustainable supply of fish you have to farm the fish, rather than mine them. So putting your money into fishing fleets that are going to exacerbate the problem by over-fishing is not the way to preserve the underlying asset."

Money

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Maurice Strong
"I am on the board of corporations who contribute both to environmental problems and their solutions. And I am on the NGO side: the Earth Council and other organizations."

Environment

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Maurice Strong
"Toyota was the first to put a commercial fuel cell powered car on the road, and I have no doubt that Toyota will continue to be in the front lines in the development of competitive fuel cell vehicles."

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Maurice Strong
"Also, it is interesting that developing countries, with China and India perhaps in the lead, where the future of the global environment will be decided are now on board with the case for sustainable development."

Development

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Maurice Strong
"After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital."

Earth

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Maurice Strong
"A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns."

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Maurice Strong
"Well they do have a use, but we should never believe that any international conference is going to suddenly solve problems like the condition of the global environment."

Environment

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