Dams Quotes

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Development is not about factories, dams and roads. Development is about people. The goal is material, cultural and spiritual fulfilment for the people. The human… — Rajiv Gandhi
It is absurd for a man to kill an elephant. It is not brutal, it is not heroic, and certainly it is not easy; it… — Beryl Markham
The majority of the people of the world today are unsane, not insane, unsane meaning having been exposed to methods of evaluation that have long… — Jacque Fresco
How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to… — E T A Hoffmann
The Quaker loves an ample brim, A hat that bows to no salaam; And dear the beaver is to him As if it never made… — Thomas Hood
There are hidden contradictions in the minds of people who "love Nature" while deploring the "artificialities" with which "Man has spoiled Nature.'" The obvious contradiction… — Robert A. Heinlein
When the sun shouts and people abound One thinks there were the ages of stone and the age of bronze And the iron age; iron… — Robinson Jeffers
There are many stages to a man's life. In the first stage, he is young and eager, like a beaver. In the second stage, he… — Jack Handey
One of these days the dam of Gods mercy will give way to his justice. — Adrian Rogers
The summer of 1830 I... blasted the tunnel through the rock to take water from the dam above the falls for the mill... In 1831… — Ezra Cornell
When dams were erected on the Columbia, salmon battered themselves against the concrete, trying to return home. I expect no less from us. We too… — Derrick Jensen
Every morning when I awake I ask myself whether I should write or blow up a dam. I tell myself I should keep writing, though… — Derrick Jensen
Men may dam it and say that they have made a lake, but it will still be a river. It will keep its nature and… — Wendell Berry
An unspoiled river is a very rare thing in this Nation today. Their flow and vitality have been harnessed by dams and too often they… — Lyndon B. Johnson
A direful death indeed they had That would put any parent mad But she was more than usual calm She did not give a singel… — Marjorie Fleming
There is a lake that one day refused to flow away and threw up a dam at the place where it had before flowed out… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty, and… — Kofi Annan
Most of the locks and dams on the upper Mississippi River system are over 60 years old and many are in serious need of repair… — Ron Kind
People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project (Muscle Shoals Dam) nor contribute a pound of material, will collect more… — Thomas A. Edison
He wondered what kind of blueprint beavers had for creating such a structure-or did they simply start aimlessly weaving stuff together until they had a… — Patrick F. McManus

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