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After all, sustainability means running the global environment – Earth Inc. – like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital. – Maurice Strong

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I am President of the UN created University for Peace, which has a strong commitment to the relationship between peace, security and the environment. I meet with young people around the world and I always come away enthused and encouraged. – Maurice Strong

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Peace
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Ted Turner is still a leader. And he sets a great example. His ability financially has been reduced, but his influence and his example still is an important asset to the whole environmental movement. – Maurice Strong

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environmental
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I learn something from criticism because when it comes from sources you respect you always examine it and learn. – Maurice Strong

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respect
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Other Quotes from
environmental
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But reducing harmful emissions, abating our dependence on foreign oil and developing alternative renewable energy sources have benefits that go beyond environmental health, they improve personal health, enhance national security and encourage our nations economic viability. – Jim Clyburn

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environmental

Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved? – Jeff Goodell

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environmental

Moreover, environmental health at the local level has become narrowly focused, very much defined around regulations and the attendant regulatory debates. – Samuel Wilson

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environmental

If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now. – James Lovelock

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environmental

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Men often think submission indicates weakness, that letting someone else take charge betrays a character deficit. But we all submit to strangers who drill into our teeth as long as we can see the parchment on their wall which reads “Dentist.” – Edmond Manning, King Perry

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The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling – that youd take on vacation and rather than going out, youd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully thats what readers are responding to. – Harlan Coben

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