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"It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees."
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"The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious."
"In some ways, we will always be different. In other ways, we will always be the same. There is always room to disagree and blame, just as there is always room to take a new perspective and empathize. Understanding is a choice."
"There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell."
"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair."
"What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more."
"A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections."
"We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion."
"Be different to make a difference."
"It makes no difference how low tuition is if the student has no source of funds to pay that tuition."
"That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation."
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"Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem."
"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."
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