"We get so little news about the developing world that we often forget that there are literally millions of people out there struggling to change things to be fairer, freer, more democratic, less corrupt."

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Source : "The route to a sustainable future". TED Talk, www.ted.com. July 2005.

Alex Steffen

#Struggle Quotes #People Quotes #News Quotes

“Be not too rash in the breaking of an inconvenient custom; as it was gotten, so leave it by degrees. Danger attends upon too sudden alterations; he that pulls down a bad building by the great may be ruined by the fall, but he that takes it down brick by brick may live to build a better.”
“I was writing the Paraguay book, a Paragauyan told me that only five thousand people in Paraguay read.”
“We are not defined by our things. ItÂ´s not the clothes that we wear, the cars that we drive, the art we acquire- ItÂ´s not where we live- but how we live that defines us. ItÂ´s our actions that are remembered long after we are gone.”
“Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.”
“I miss smoking (two to four packs a day) but I don't miss the crackle in my lungs when I breathed.”

Source : "The Saturday Rumpus Interview With Eden Robinson". Interview With Helga Schimkat, therumpus.net. September 24, 2016.
“As far as I'm concerned, it is clear that the concept of premium will be increasingly defined through sustainability in the future. BMW, like no other brand, will still stand for vitality and driving pleasure in the future. But it will also represent efficiency and environmental friendliness.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“Culture has become one of the last elements of our identity. We have to act in favor of cultural diversity abroad as well as at home, we need strong cultural diplomacy but we have to create it.”
“I begin to love this creature, and to anticipate her birth as a fresh twist to a knot, which I do not wish to untie.”

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