"Water is the ink that writes the poetry of life."

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Source : "Alexandra Cousteau Tells Katie Couric, 'The Thing Every Human Has in Common Is Our Need for Water'". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. June 28, 2010.

Alexandra Cousteau

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“In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.”

Source : Margaret Laurence (2014). “A Bird in the House: Stories”, p.90, University of Chicago Press
“In agriculture, people have taken wild plants that can't be eaten by people - and turned them into wonderful food sources. And that's because genomes can change, and people working with plants have picked mutations. Mutations are nothing more than genetic changes.”
“How many things would be different in everyoneâ€™s surroundings if we hadnâ€™t lived? How a good word many have encouraged some fellow and did something to him that he did it differently and better than he would otherwise. And through him somebody else was saved. How much we contribute to each other, how powerful we each are-and donâ€™t know it.”
“I was a huge Sub-Zero guy, but the fact that you can download Freddy Krueger is the coolest thing I've heard of in a very long time.”
“As long as I'm still able to have a hit on the radio and sell a few albums and some tickets, I don't see that it would be worth retiring.”
“When we learn to expect more success than failure in life, we soon will develop an attitude of success.”
“Selfishness keeps man blind through life.”
“There's a great book about John Kennedy and his relationship to civil rights called 'The Bystander.' The title alone suggests that he did as little as possible, any minimal critical effort, to really facilitate civil rights in the White House.”

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