"Water must be free for sustenance needs. Since nature gives water to us free of cost, buying and selling it for profit violates our inherent right to nature's gift and denies the poor of their human rights."

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Source : Vandana Shiva (2002). “Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution and Profit”, p.35, South End Press

Vandana Shiva

#Rights Quotes #Giving Quotes #Water Quotes

“Those who are apparently absent can feel more present than the people right in front of you.”
“Everything that we do has a spiritual essence. There is a spiritual dimension in everything. All of life has meaning and everything that you do in life is in preparation for your great meeting. This great meeting is your meeting with your Lord, which is absolutely inevitable.”
“I think 2-D animation disappeared from Disney because they made so many uninteresting films. They became very conservative in the way they created them. It's too bad. I thought 2-D and 3-D could coexist happily.”
“...who proved that you don't have to do what your parents want, or what your boyfriend wants, for you to be happy. You just have to be yourself, for there is no love greater than self love”

Source : Jack Gantos (2011). “Dead End in Norvelt”, p.310, Macmillan
“Investors don't like uncertainty.”
“With Attachments, my goal was to write a really good romantic comedy. I wanted the reader to be smiling throughout.”
“The free flow of people across borders is not to be confused with the free flow of goods across borders. Free trade is a positive-sum game. Contrary to illegal immigration, it is always invited, consensual and hence mutually beneficial to the parties involved.”

Source : "We are the World". www.wnd.com. March 31, 2006.
“We thread our way through a moving forest of ice-cream cones and crimson thighs.”

Source : Jean-Dominique Bauby (2008). “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”, p.86, Knopf Group E-Books

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