Air We Breathe Quotes
39 Air We Breathe quotes by 34 unique authors
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I have never believed we had to choose between either a clean and safe environment or a growing economy. Protecting the health and safety of…
— William J. Clinton
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We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural literacy is the…
— E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
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Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a…
— Edmund Burke
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No issue is more compelling than the air we breathe, be it hot or cold, be it hawk or human.
— Jack Nicholson
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Do not be afraid that joy will make the pain worse; it is needed like the air we breathe.
— Goran Persson
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It's very important that we expand our use of clean energy and make a long-term commitment to it. Biodiesel and ethanol are better for the…
— Julia Roberts
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The belief that words have a meaning of their own account is a relic of primitive word magic, and it is still a part of…
— Unknown Author
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The ever-rising cost of living: Someday soon, the corporate technicians will be locking meters on our noses and charging us a royalty on the air…
— Edward Abbey
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Market forces have no intrinsically moral direction, which is why, before he wrote The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith wrote The Theory of Moral Sentiments.…
— Arianna Huffington
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Our tissues change as we live: the food we eat and the air we breathe become flesh of our flesh and bone of our bone,…
— Norbert Wiener
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Under the ominous shadow which the second World War and its attendant circumstances have cast on the world, peace has become as essential to civilized…
— Cordell Hull
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The morality of clean blood ought to be one of the first lessons taught us by our pastors and teachers. The physical is the substratum…
— William Tyndale
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Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe, so we are no longer conscious of its presence.
— Godfrey Reggio
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What I’m trying to show is that the main event today is not seen by those of us that are living it… So it’s not…
— Godfrey Reggio
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Trust is a social good to be protected just as much as the air we breathe or the water we drink. When it is damaged,…
— Sissela Bok
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Our elected officials are able to regulate even the most personal aspects of our lives, from the cleanliness of the air we breathe to the…
— Unknown Author
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The Great Culling of the human race already has begun. It is being done through chemicals added to our drinking water, food, medicines, and the…
— G. Edward Griffin
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There must be progress, certainly. But we must ask ourselves what kind of progress we want, and what price we want to pay for it.…
— Marjory Stoneman Douglas
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The air we breathe is necessary to keep us alive, but we must continually breathe it out so we can breathe fresh air back into…
— John Templeton
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The destiny of our land, the air we breathe, the water we drink is not in the mystical hands of an uncontrollable agent, it is…
— Richard M. Nixon
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Trust is like the air we breathe--when it's present, nobody really notices; when it's absent, everybody notices.
— Warren Buffett
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The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he must make others see. Only when he no longer knows what he is doing…
— Edgar Degas
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We rarely think of the air we breathe, yet it is in us and around us all the time. In similar fashion, the presence of…
— Thomas Keating
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When we have found how the nucleus of atoms is built up we shall have found the greatest secret of all — except life. We…
— Ernest Rutherford
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For me, consciousness is the most interesting unsolved problem of science, and, in fact, we may never know what it is about a particular arrangement…
— Alan Lightman
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