"We have been quick to assume rights to use water but slow to recognize obligations to preserve and protect it... In short, we need a water ethic-a guide to right conduct in the face of complex decisions about natural systems we do not and cannot fully understand."

-- Sandra Postel

#Rights Quotes #Water Quotes #Decision Quotes

“Philosophy begins in wonder.”
“It accords with the most liberal spirit of philosophy to suppose that not a stone can fall, or a plant rise, without the immediate agency of divine power.”
“Originally this was the most important thing about martial arts - to reach a higher level, to become a strong human being. Strong doesn't mean big arms. It means who can be a more strict human being with himself. That is the ideal of martial arts.”
“A lot of people look at me as a big person. Some people consider me to be obese. Some people consider me fat and sloppy. Everybody knows that I have a big stomach, but I think sometimes that overshadows everything else on my body - from my calves to my back to my shoulders to my biceps. What people go to the gym and work for, I have. The only thing I don't have that they got is six - packs. But I really don't care about six-packs.”
“I would show up at a party for Al Qaeda if you said there's going to be a dinner.”
“The good part of having six kids is, there's always one who wants to hug you and say, 'Daddy, I love you.'”
“I was a very quiet, shy child. I grew up in a small town, Louisville, Kentucky, and there weren't too many Hawaiian-Filipino girls, so I stuck out like a sore thumb. I didn't look like everyone else and didn't feel I belonged... But these things only build character and make you stronger. It taught me to grow into the woman I was to become.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When you put things together, things that other people have thrown out, youâ€™re really bringing them to life â€“ a spiritual life that surpasses the life for which they were originally created.”

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