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“The loss of fortune to a true man is but the trumpet challenge to renewed exertion, not the thunder stroke of destruction.”

Men Challenges Loss Destruction Fortune Strokes Thunder Trumpets Exertion True Man

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“We will build our defenses beyond challenge, lest weakness invite challenge. We will confront weapons of mass destruction, so that a new century is spared new horrors.”

Challenges Century Horror Weapons Mass Weakness Destruction Defense Invites Weapons Of Mass Destruction Mass Destruction

Author:George W. Bush

“Our biggest challenges for the ocean and for the planet are problems of perception. People need to understand that species extinctions, habitat destruction, ocean acidification, and pollution are all chipping away at the resilience of the thin layer of life that sustains us on Spaceship Earth.”

“One of our objectives today is very important for many people, for millions of people on our planet - it is joining efforts in the fight against terrorism and other similar challenges: countering drug trafficking and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, fighting famine, preserving environment and biodiversity, taking efforts to make the world more predictable, more stable.”

“One challenge of our adventure on earth is to rise above dead systems...wars, nations, destructions...to refuse to be a part of them, and express the highest selves we know how to be.”

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Author:Richard Bach

“One of the challenges you will face is finding a job in our depressed economy, ... In fact, the chances of finding a job are about as good as finding weapons of mass destruction in the Iraqi desert -- slim and none, and slim just left the building.”

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Author:Will Ferrell

“We cannot confront the massive challenges of poverty, hunger, disease and environmental destruction unless we address issues of population and reproductive health”

Challenges Poverty Issues Disease Destruction Environmental Hunger Population Addresses Massive Reproductive Health Environmental Destruction

Author:Thoraya Obaid

“Governments have nothing. They can't create anything, they never have. All they can do is steal from one group and give it to another at the destruction of the principles of freedom, and we ought to challenge that concept.”

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Author:Ron Paul

“The destruction of the earth’s environment is the human rights challenge of our time.”

Humans Earth Challenges Environment Rights Destruction Human Rights Our Time

Author:Desmond Tutu

“It's a mistake to think that poor people get the benefit from the welfare system. It's a total fraud. Most welfare go to the rich of this country: the military-industrial complex, the bankers, the foreign dictators, it's totally out of control... This idea that the government has services or goods that they can pass on is a complete farce. Governments have nothing. They can't create anything, they never have. All they can do is steal from one group and give it to another at the destruction of the principles of freedom, and we ought to challenge that concept.”

“Embrace change. Envision what could be, challenge the status quo, and drive creative destruction.”

Challenges Creative Destruction Embrace Status Quo Embrace Change Creative Destruction

Book:The Science of Success: How Market-Based Management Built the World's Largest Private Company

Source: The Science of Success: How Market-Based Management Built the World's Largest Private Company

“Think about this: terrorism, epidemics, poverty, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction-all challenges that know no borders-the reality is that climate change ranks right up there with every single one of them.”

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Author:John F. Kerry