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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 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."
"There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read."
"Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference."
"All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers."
"You don't see a lot of difference between the Gin Blossoms and the Byrds."
"We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion."
"The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language."
"We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty."
"I mean, one shot you treat like you have forty little matches instead of one forty shot match. It makes all the difference in the world. It's easier to just forget about a not so good shot."
"Our differences are the real treasures."
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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."
"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's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem."
"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."
"I am working to make sure we don't only protect the environment, we also improve governance."
"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."
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