The Pacific Northwest depends on inexpensive renewable energy from our dams.
Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. . . Especially for girls and women, it is an agent of family health and nutrition.
Like water leaking through a dam," said Piper. "Yeah," smiled Percy. "We've got a dam hole. " "What?" Piper asked. "Nothing," he said. "Inside joke.
Words, like tranquil waters behind a dam, can become reckless and uncontrollable torrents of destruction when released without caution and wisdom.
I eat meat because meat tastes like murder, and murder tastes pretty dam good!
Dams have harmed our wildlife and made rivers less useful for recreation.
At one level it's clear that the dam has broken. There's an inevitable move to use the Internet as a distribution medium and that's not going to stop.
Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so dam serious.
The Theory of Evolution has more holes in it than a dam made out of Swiss cheese.
Undressing her was an act of recklessness, a kind of vandalism, like releasing a zoo full of animals, or blowing up a dam.
Secrets press inside a person. They press the way water presses at a dam. The secrets and the water, they both want to get out.
It doesn't make you bad losing to Rob Van Dam. . . it just makes you like everybody else.
God is a great underground river that no one can dam up and no one can stop.
The Quaker loves an ample brim, A hat that bows to no salaam; And dear the beaver is to him As if it never made a dam.
The Soviets held to the tradition of colonialism. They raped the country and killed many people. But they also built dams, electrical power plants, streets, and technical schools. They were communists and had the same vision for Afghanistan that Stalin and Lenin had for the Soviet Union: Progress is communism plus electrification. And today? Today Kabul gets its electrical power from Uzbekistan, Herat from Iran and Jalalabad from Pakistan.
We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place for capitalists and their projects. We must reclaim the roads and plowed land, halt dam constructions, tear down existing dams, free shackled rivers and return to wilderness millions of acres of previously settled land.
Whether its veterans disability claims, infrastructure projects, dam safety, or helping our farmers, what I am focused on is being useful for folks in the Hudson Valley.
Evolution is a theory with more holes than a Dutch dam of swiss cheese.
Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away.
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.
