Rwanda really did take very strong steps towards development. I mean, this place is unrecognizable. There's a very good management of economy… — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
Humans build their societies around consumption of fossil water long buried in the earth, and these societies, being based on temporary resources,… — Charles Bowden Copy Share Image
To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The difference between great actors and the rest of us isn't simply that they know how to make more out of less,… — John Burnham Schwartz Copy Share Image
A certain construct of emotions that really define who you are and who you will become and I feel very much that… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Cities and landscapes are illustrations of our spiritual and material worth. They not only express our values but give them a tangible… — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
The easiest period in a crisis situation is actually the battle itself. The most difficult is the period of indecision - whether… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
For Indigenous people, the goal for our land is definitely about protection, but it's also about use. We see ourselves as so… — Rebecca Adamson Copy Share Image
Thirty years ago, if you said the country was living beyond its means, people would have thought about economics. Now, if you… — David Miliband Copy Share Image
Soon after a disaster passes, we tend to turn our eyes away and focus our resources on the day-to-day, rather than on… — Sheri Fink Copy Share Image
Nature does nothing in vain, and in the use of means to her goals she is not prodigal. Her giving to man… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Who was it in Afghanistan who screwed up in Tora Bora and let bin Laden escape? It was the Bush Administration. Who… — Sidney Blumenthal Copy Share Image
You can get a coalition of senators from particular states in America, for example, who want to construct highways or dams or… — James M. Buchanan Copy Share Image
We are not a warlike people. Nor is our history filled with tales of aggressive adventures and imperialism, which might come as… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
At the beginning of World War II the U.S. had a mere 600 or so first-class fighting aircraft. We rapidly overcame this… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
The vision behind our idea is a world where people don't carry hazardous chemicals in their bodies, the environment is free of… — Jeffrey Hollender Copy Share Image
Here's what the right-wing has in, there's no shortage of the natural resources of ignorance, apathy, hate, fear. As long as those… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
Realizing that we can not live unto ourselves alone, we have contributed of our resources and our counsel to the relief of… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the… — John Wesley Powell Copy Share Image
I've directed the full resources of our intelligence and law enforcement communities to find those responsible and bring them to justice. We… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Failure to properly control our borders costs citizens in many ways: schools become overcrowded, medical resources are stretched too thin, other government… — Zach Wamp Copy Share Image
The past is a rich resource on which we can draw in order to make decisions for the future, but it does… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The people of South and Central Texas and the Coastal Bend need jobs, they need health care, they need water infrastructure improvements,… — Ruben Hinojosa Copy Share Image
There are some people who say that theyre concerned only with poverty but not inequality. But I dont think that is a… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
It's been such a group effort. When you're a new band and you have limited resources, you end up getting people that… — Balthazar Getty Copy Share Image
What we are working for is an educational program that has become a resource and rallying point for scores of brave southerners… — Septima Poinsette Clark Copy Share Image
The nonviolent approach does not immediately change the heart of the oppressor. It first does something to the hearts and souls of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Countries don't go out of business…The infrastructure doesn't go away, the productivity of the people doesn't go away, the natural resources don’t… — Walter Wriston Copy Share Image
"Ocean" is more about ... powerlessness and hopelessness. When we're very small we can't actually do anything - we have no say… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The basis of self-ownership is the fact that each person has direct control over the scarce resource of his body and therefore… — Stephan Kinsella Copy Share Image
We're looking to identify funds if we can. We're also looking at other resources to assist the government in making this a… — Thomas G. Glenn Copy Share Image
Previous efforts to eradicate malaria failed for several reasons, including political instability and technical challenges in delivering resources, especially in certain countries… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm not an environmentalist. I'm a cultural repairman. It's all about efficient and restorative use of resources to make the world secure,… — Amory Lovins Copy Share Image
What drives the separation of groups of people into subgroups is the desire to control resources. We begin with a single culture,… — Mark Pagel Copy Share Image
They tried their best to find a place where I was isolated. But all the resources of a superpower cannot isolate the… — Natan Sharansky Copy Share Image
... often analysis seems to be based on the assumption that future economic output is almost entirely determined by inexorable economic forces… — William Vickrey Copy Share Image
Racial profiling punishes innocent individuals for the past actions of those who look and sound like them. It misdirects crucial resources and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The competitive advantage professional journalism enjoys over the free is just that: professional journalists, whose paid positions give them the time and… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
For far too long the world's poorest people have seen no benefit from the vast natural resources in their own backyards. It… — Nick Clegg Copy Share Image
History teaches us these lessons for the interveners: leave your prejudices at home, keep your ambitions low, have enough resources to do… — Paddy Ashdown Copy Share Image
