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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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"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."
"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."
"They hate you not because of what you have done but because of who you are; you are different from who they are, and you are occupying the ground they want for themselves."
"The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic."
"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 only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad."
"A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections."
"What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more."
"Our differences are the real treasures."
"Be different to make a difference."
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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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve."
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