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Expert Inspirational Quotes (22)

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Pervasive depletion and overuse of water supplies, the high capital cost of new large water projects, rising pumping costs and worsening ecological damage call for a shift in the way water is valued, used and managed.
Sandra Postel
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Every day we wake up, we have an opportunity to do some good, but there's so much bad that you have to navigate to get to the good.
Chesley Sullenberger
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Water is finite and we have not done a great job of managing it in the past.
Sandra Postel
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People really are our most important resource, and people who don't realize that and choose not to live that way, choose not to lead that way, are paying a price for that in many of our companies, many of our organizations.
Chesley Sullenberger
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Good taste is synonymous with success in all fields of life. It's not a question of money, but of a trained eye.
Letitia Baldrige
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We have been quick to assume rights to use water but slow to recognize obligations to preserve and protect it... In short, we need a water ethic-a guide to right conduct in the face of complex decisions about natural systems we do not and cannot fully understand.
Sandra Postel
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I've missed half or two-thirds of my children's lives.
Chesley Sullenberger
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One of the things I teach my children is that I have always invested in myself, and I have never stopped learning, never stopped growing.
Chesley Sullenberger
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There's simply no substitute for experience in terms of aviation safety.
Chesley Sullenberger
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That's what we're trained to do.
Chesley Sullenberger
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Water is the basis of life and the blue arteries of the earth! Everything in the non-marine environment depends on freshwater to survive.
Sandra Postel
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The environment is not as 'cheap as chips', it's priceless and we all have a part to play in protecting it
David Dickinson
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There is no substitute for the riches gained on a lifetime basis by the young American who studies or works abroad.
Letitia Baldrige
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Each generation of pilots hopes that they will leave their profession better off than they found it.
Chesley Sullenberger
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Women have to be a lot smarter and brighter and have to work a lot harder to prepare themselves. They have to watch what they do and how they behave. It's not a free world yet.
Letitia Baldrige
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My mother was a first-grade teacher, so I credit her with this lifelong intellectual curiosity I have, and love of reading and learning.
Chesley Sullenberger
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there are two types of the male species of Homo sapiens: men, and Italian men.
Letitia Baldrige
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In Rome people seem to love with more zest, murder with more imagination, submit to creative urges more often, and lose the sense of logic more easily than in any other place.
Letitia Baldrige
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It's amazing what you can learn to get used to.
Chesley Sullenberger
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the person talking to you never looks directly at you, but rather around the room, searching for the answer to the universal cocktail party question, 'Who's here tonight?
Letitia Baldrige
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Finally ... You have accomplished your mission in going there tonight - you were 'seen,' and you furnished your host and hostess with the sincerest proof of your great love and friendship for them - you endured their cocktail party.
Letitia Baldrige
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We have made flying so cheap, I'm afraid we are going to make it cheap at any cost.
Chesley Sullenberger