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“I'm interested in giving business an opportunity by improving the tax environment to invest and grow with Pennsylvania, to expand and put more money in capital investment and creating jobs.”

Giving Jobs Opportunity Grows Environment Taxes Creating Investment More Money Improving Pennsylvania Creating Jobs Capital Investment

Author:Ed Rendell

“... reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.”

Ifs Men Giving Environment Reform Behave

Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“I keep the shutters closed because I like to work in a hermetic environment. I like mirrors. When you look out of the window, all you see is ugliness, but when you look in the mirror all you see is beauty.”

Looks Environment Window Mirrors Ugliness Shutters

Author:Sebastian Horsley

“Choosing is a creative process, one through which we construct our environment, our lives, ourselves.”

Process Creative Environment Our Lives Creative Process Constructs Our Environment

Author:Sheena Iyengar

“If we each take responsibility in shifting our own behavior, we can trigger the type of change that is necessary to achieve sustainability for our race or this planet. We change our planet, our environment, our humanity every day, every year, every decade, and every millennia.”

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Author:Yehuda Berg

“Typically, historical black colleges and universities like Delaware State, attracted students who were raised in an environment where going to college wasn't the next natural step after high school.”

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Author:Michael N. Castle

“The movement for the environment really only started in the mid 1970's.”

Environment Movement

Author:Anita Roddick

“At a moment when distortions of Islam are what feed most Americans, Ibrahim Abdul-Matin has done something both practical and inspiring. He persuades us that the imperiled environment is both common struggle and common ground for people who share, it turns out, more than simply God.”

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Author:John Hockenberry

“Setting is a major aspect in writing all of my books, both in terms of natural and cultural environments.”

Writing Book Term Natural Environment Majors Aspect Setting Settings

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“We consume everything like potato chips. In this environment, I suspect the cartoonist's connection with readers is likely to be superficial and fleeting, unless he taps into some fervent special interest niche. And that audience, almost by definition, will be tiny.”

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Author:Bill Watterson

“Inside each of us is a unique person resulting from millennia of environment and heredity combined in a way that could never happen again and could never have happened before. We aren't blank slates, but we are also communal creatures who are born before our brains are fully developed, so we're very sensitive to our environment. The question is: How to find the support and the circumstances that allow you to express what's inside you?”

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Author:Gloria Steinem

“What we need to do together is to put in place the kind of - foster the kind of environment where businesses of all sizes - small, medium or large - want to invest, want to do the innovative things that our businesses here in America are known for doing, want to grow our economy and want to create the kind of jobs that will bring - reduce that unemployment rate.”

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Author:Valerie Jarrett

“Each of our cells is a living entity, and the main thing that influences them is our blood. If I open my eyes in the morning and my beautiful partner is in front of me, my perception causes a release of oxytocin, dopamine, growth hormones - all of which encourage the growth and health of my cells. But if I see a saber tooth tiger, I'm going to release stress hormones which change the cells to a protection mode. People need to realize that their thoughts are more primary than their genes, because the environment, which is influenced by our thoughts, controls the genes.”

“Usually, I fly in the day before a concert so your voice can acclimate to the new environment.”

Voice Environment Concerts New Environment

Author:Betty Buckley

“I feel happy about the songs I've written. I'm a great lover of the craft of songwriting, and I sure admire it in other people when I see it - past and present. I feel comfortable with what I have accomplished. I feel happy to be able to work in that environment, and that I have a lot of songs left to be written, somewhere.”

People Feels Able Past Song Left Environment Written Lovers Comfortable Admire Crafts Accomplished Songwriting Great Love Past And Present Great Lovers

Author:John Fogerty

“If you paint a building shocking pink, that has no scale, it is just a huge mistake, but it's not in the scale of the city to have things like that. You know. So, not only because it's not appropriate, not only because it's offensive to the environment, I mean but among them also because that quantity of that color in the urban scale, is out of scale.”

Ifs Knows Mean Cities Mistake Environment Building Color Huge Paint Scales Appropriate Quantity Offensive Urban Shocking

Author:Massimo Vignelli

“I think anybody, not just children, is a product of a great environment. If you put them in a better environment from a sad situation, nine times out of 10, they'll go in the right direction.”

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Author:Usher

“I always suggest to women to take time away from the norm. And that takes a lot of courage. Most people can't do that, they can't loose and run, and say, 'Look, I'm going to just have an entirely new environment, devoid of all the habitual concerns of the day.'”

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Author:Maya Tiwari

“New Yorkers have this special spot in Central Park, where they do this 5K run, the minute the clock strikes twelve. I ran once, and I'll never do that again, either. But, it's awesome to watch those people run. It's such a great environment and place to be.”

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Author:Hilary Swank

“Sometimes when I talk to little children I remind them of the fact that when I was growing up myself, I used to play with frog eggs and tadpoles and I used to walk in the field, I used to literally copy whatever my mother was doing on the land. And that may be the reason why I eventually developed the passion for green and for the Earth. So it is extremely important for adults and especially those who are in charge of cities to make sure that we do not lose touch with the land and with the environment. And especially our children.”

“An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment...”

“There was a time in my acting career, where I was trying to figure out if acting was the thing to do. You know? I was always on this journey of trying to learn more about humanity and people - using the characters and situations as guideposts. I could switch up and do another job as long as I'm continuing that same search and that same journey of revealing my connection to humanity and the universe. And directing gives me the opportunity to explore ALL these different lives and their connection to their environments and the people. And I get to connect to the wires of the universe.”

“If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.”

Ifs Persons Understanding Chance Compassion Kindness Environment Seeds Exposed Loving Kindness Loving Person

Author:Nhat Hanh

“Purify your heart. Cleanse it. Make it a wake-up routine. Your environment may be harsh, difficult and tumultuous but if you work on your heart, you can be calm amidst all those challenges.”

Ifs Heart May Difficult Challenges Emotion Environment Wake Up Calm Routine Harsh Our Environment

Author:Rita Zahara

“To be sure, we have inherited abilities, but our development we owe to thousands of influences coming from the world around us from which we appropriate what we can and what is suitable to us.”

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Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.”

“Only in the problem play is there any real drama, because drama is no mere setting up of the camera to nature: it is the presentation in parable of the conflict between Man's will and his environment: in a word, of problem.”

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Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants.”

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Author:David Attenborough

“Natural selection is a theory of local adaptation to changing environments. It proposes no perfecting principles, no guarantee of general improvement”

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Book:Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History

Source: Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History

“Earth would soon Be uninhabitable as the moon. What for that matter had it ever been? Who advised man to come and live therein?”

Men Matter Earth Environment Moon

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“Celebrity chefs are the leaders in the field of food, and we are the led. Why should the leaders of chemical businesses be held responsible for polluting the marine environment with a few grams of effluent, which is sublethal to marine species, while celebrity chefs are turning out endangered fish at several dozen tables a night without enduring a syllable of criticism?”

Source: The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World and what We Eat

“The laws of thermodynamics restrict all technologies, man's as well as nature's, and apply to all economic systems whether capitalist, communist, socialist, or fascist. We do not create or destroy (produce or consume) anything in a physical sense- we merely transform or rearrange. And the inevitable cost of arranging greater order in one part of the system (the human economy) is creating a more than offsetting amount of disorder elsewhere (the natural environment).”

“Now comes the second machine age. Computers and other digital advances are doing for mental power - the ability to use our brains to understand and shape our environments-what the steam engine and its descendants did for muscle power.”

Use Age Ability Brain Environment Shapes Computer Machines Muscles Digital Engines Our Environment Steam Descendants Mental Power Steam Engines

Author:Erik Brynjolfsson

“Retailing has gone from an information-scarce to an information-rich environment.”

Gone Rich Environment Information Scarce Retailing

Author:Erik Brynjolfsson

“White males are the most responsible for the destruction of human life and environment on the planet today.”

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Book:Going Too Far: The Personal Chronicle of a Feminist

Source: Going Too Far: The Personal Chronicle of a Feminist

“The trains carrying coal to power plants are death trains. Coal-fired power plants are factories of death.”

Energy Environment Train Plant Climate Change Factories Coal Power Plants

Author:James Hansen

“Habit is a compromise effected between an individual and his environment.”

Individual Environment Habit Compromise

Author:Samuel Beckett

“Another potentiality of our irrepressible juvenility is a capacity to maintain until the onset of senility an active creative interaction with our environment. We persist in exploring, investigating, inventing, discovering. In these respects humans of all eras, in all societies, all ages of life, are more like baby chimps and not at all like the sedate and rigidly conforming adult chimpanzee, who hasn't changed much since she was five or six years old.”

Source: Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood

“I always try to say, 'If you want to help the environment, try to do just two things. One, use less of your car. Second, separate your garbage.'”

Ifs Want Trying Two Helping Use Environment Car Two Things Garbage

Author:Jaime Lerner

“Under weak government, in a wide, thinly populated country, in the struggle against the raw natural environment and with the freeplay of economic forces, unified social groups become the transmitters of culture.”

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Author:Johan Huizinga

“That series of inventions by which man from age to age has remade his environment is a different kind of evolution -- not biological, but cultural evolution . . . "The Ascent of Man.”

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Author:Jacob Bronowski

“Maturity involves being honest and true to oneself, making decisions based on a conscious internal process, assuming responsibility for one's decisions, having healthy relationships with others and developing one's own true gifts. It involves thinking about one's environment and deciding what one will and won't accept.”

“The free conversation of a friend is what I would prefer to any environment.”

Friendship Environment Conversation

Author:David Hume

“The only way in which one can make endurable man's inhumanity to man, and man's destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man's humanity to man and man's reverence for the place in which he lives.”

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Book:Knocking on the Door

Source: Knocking on the Door

“You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for.”

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Author:David Attenborough

“Conservation must become before recreation.”

Environment Conservation Recreation

Author:Prince Charles

“When envy lies within a woman's heart it cuts into her soul & gives her a toxic spirit. It is truly something to be disgusted by. I have experienced it so much in my own life that I can sense the energy of envy without any communication from the other person. It lingers in the air to pollute your environment. Envy is a brutal force of bad vibes sucking the love right out of your heart.”

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Author:Bindu

“Autonomy means women defining themselves and the values by which they will live, and beginning to think of institutional arrangements which will order their environment in line with their needs.... Autonomy means moving out from a world in which one is born to marginality, to a past without meaning, and a future determined by others--into a world in which one acts and chooses, aware of a meaningful past and free to shape one's future.”

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Author:Gerda Lerner

“For boys, the family was the place from which one sprang and to which one returned for comfort and support, but the field of action was the larger world of wilderness, adventure, industry, labor, and politics. For girls, the family was to be the world, their field of action the domestic circle. He was to express himself in his work and, through it and social action, was to help transform his environment; her individual growth and choices were restricted to lead her to express herself through love, wifehood, and motherhood--through the support and nurture of others, who would act for her.”

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Author:Gerda Lerner

“I have never worked for fame or praise, and shall not feel their loss as I otherwise would. I have never for a moment lost sight of the humble life I was born to, its small environments, and the consequently little right I had to expect much of myself, and shall have the less to censure, or upbraid myself with for the failures I must see myself make.”

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Author:Clara Barton