"We must convince and empower people to adopt the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity as their guiding principle."

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Source : "Governments sound biodiversity alarm in Nairobi". www.cnn.com. May 22, 2000.

Klaus Topfer

#People Quotes #Empowering Quotes #Principles Quotes

“Technology is one of the key drivers of female economic empowerment, but the fields that women choose to participate in are still decidedly gendered.”
“Excuse me, I have to go. Somewhere there is a crime happening.”
“'Liar' is just as ugly a word as 'thief,' because it implies the presence of just as ugly a sin in one case as in the other. If a man lies under oath or procures the lie of another under oath, if he perjures himself or suborns perjury, he is guilty under the statute law.”
“There are mornings when all men experience with fatigue a flush of tenderness that makes them horny.”

Source : Jean Genet (1994). “Our Lady of the Flowers”, p.38, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“What is a Christian? The richest answer I know is that a Christian is one who has God as Father.”
“have a much harder time writing stories than novels. I need the expansiveness of a novel and the propulsive energy it provides. When I think about scene - and when I teach scene writing - I'm thinking about questions. What questions are raised by a scene? What questions are answered? What questions persist from scene to scene to scene?”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“We see ourselves as first helping to open up markets to competition.”
“The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound. Im caught up in the story writing and I miss a good deal of sleep thinking about it and working out the plot points.”

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