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Barack Obama Politician
Environment

"We cannot tolerate a nuclear Iran. It would be a game changer. Not only would it threaten Israel, a country that is our stalwart ally, but it would also create an environment in which you could set off an arms race in this Middle East."

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Environment

"Most of the time for me, you're learning what not to do, as opposed to what to do. You never know what to do. I don't, especially in a work environment. You have a little formula yourself. But when I see a director do something I think, whatever he or she just said totally screwed that actor up and now they're worse. I'm never going to do that. I'm going to figure out something else. I want my movie to be good. And that's how it works."

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Elizabeth Gilbert Author, Memoirist
Environment

"Just having walked into a prison environment, sat there for two hours, the effect that it had on me. ... I couldn't imagine the effect it would have on a person 24 hours a day. So then I became more intrigued, and we began a correspondence, and I began visiting [Todd Willingham]."

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Al Gore Politician
Environment

"American democracy is in grave danger from the changes in the environment in which ideas either live and spread or wither and die."

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Christian Scott Musician
Environment

"Creating an environment musically that shows that we all belong together is what I'm interested in doing, and that happened really early on."

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Claude Bernard Physiologist
Environment

"The stability of the internal medium is a primary condition for the freedom and independence of certain living bodies in relation to the environment surrounding them."

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