Meister Eckhart
Theologian, Philosopher
"God is a great underground river that no one can dam up and no one can stop."
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Thomas A. Edison
Inventor
"People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project (Muscle Shoals Dam) nor contribute a pound of material, will collect more money from the United States than will the People who supply all the material and do all the work. This is the terrible thing about interest."
Edward Abbey
Author, Environmentalist
"All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly."
Kofi Annan
Diplomat, Politician
"For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right."
Kofi Annan
Diplomat, Politician
"Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope... Especially for girls and women, it is an agent of family health and nutrition."
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"No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good reason, as that Glen Canyon Dam at Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County."
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"Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age."
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"The brief legal emancipation of Jews during the Napoleonic wars released unparalleled economic, professional, and cultural energies. It was though a high dam had suddenly been breached."
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