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"The number of people displaced by dams is estimated at between 40 million and 80 million, most of them in China and India. The costs of dams were on average 50% above their original estimate. Some designed to reduce flooding made it worse, and there were many unexpected environmental disadvantages, including the extinction of fish and bird species. Half the world's wetlands had been lost because of dams."
"The trouble with happiness is people don't practice it."
"In sum: banking theory and practice, as immobilizing and fixating forces, fail to acknowledge men and women as historical beings; problem-posing theory and practice take the people's historicity as their starting point."
"Don't listen to the malicious comments of those friends who, never taking any risks themselves, can only see other people's failures."
"American people simply will not countenance being lied to by their own President."
"To be honest dinner conversations was the worst bit about being a child and listening to the boring people around me."
"It’s a pleasure to be in a country that isn’t ruled by its people."
"I am and always will be an HRH. But out of personal choice I like to be called William because that is my name and I want people to call me William - for now."
"After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world."
"I love Vermont because of her hills and valleys, her scenery and invigorating climate, but most of all because of her indomitable people. They are a race of pioneers who have almost beggared themselves to serve others. If the spirit of liberty should vanish in other parts of the union and support of our institutions should languish, it could all be replenished from the generous store held by the people of this brave little state of Vermont."
"Did you know that five out of three people have trouble with fractions."
"The high desert has an effect on people. The place has a way of swallowing you up."
"The arc of history is longer than human vision. It bends. We abolished slavery, we granted universal suffrage. We have done hard things before. And every time it took a terrible fight between people who could not imagine changing the rules, and those who said, 'We already did. We have made the world new.' The hardest part will be to convince yourself of the possibilities, and hang on."
"I really think that the planet is growing a new nervous system. I mean, when you think of Facebook as the third largest nation in the world, that's so unprecedented, so amazing. Think of how many people are texting and twittering. The planet has created a nervous system for massive, rapid connectivity."
"A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory is the only part which is of certain durability."
"The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate."
"I remember those faces of people who were good I saw that. I saw a father who gave his bread to his son and his son gave back the bread to his father. That, to me, was such a defeat of the enemies, will of the enemies, theories of the enemies, aspirations, here [in Auschwitz]."
"When people say, 'She's got everything', I've got one answer - I haven't had tomorrow."
"People love gossip. It's the biggest thing that keeps the entertainment industry going."
"When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, 'Nah, what's wrong with a horse?' That was a huge bet he made, and it worked."
