"From being a dream, dams have become a very cynical corrupt enterprise; a way of letting governments lay their hands on huge sums of money; a way of centralizing resources; a way of snatching rivers away from the poor and giving them to the rich. And so in a sense they've become monuments to corruption."

-- Arundhati Roy

#Letting Go Quotes #Dream Quotes #Government Quotes

“From time to time, like many other players, I glance through my own games of earlier years, and return to positions and variations which have gone out of practice. I attempt to restore them, to find new ideas and plans.”
“To hunt for symbols in a fairy tale is absolutely fatal.”
“Israel has a sizeable nuclear arsenal and could retaliate if it were attacked.”

Source : "A War With Iran: Rhetoric Or A Reality?". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. March 10, 2012.
“With all this talk of Going Green, Buying Green, Living Green, and Green being the new whatever, I've come to realize that, although we had no green, my grandmother was actually the 'greenest' person I've ever known.”

Source : "Waste Not, Want Not". www.elle.com. June 21, 2011.
“Life is not only knowing what you want but what you'll settle for.”
“Who knew there were so many ghosts to be busted in the world?”
“My career, at the moment, is very exciting, but love comes first because it balances me.”
“Instead of lamenting your fate, create your world.”

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