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The eagle may soar; beavers build dams.
Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away.
All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly.
I feel the dams of emotions open up more easily when one is acting.
One of these days the dam of Gods mercy will give way to his justice.
The bigger the dam of patience, the worse the flood when the dam breaks.
Dams have harmed our wildlife and made rivers less useful for recreation.
Don't talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules.
God is a great underground river that no one can dam up and no one can stop.
The Pacific Northwest depends on inexpensive renewable energy from our dams.
We have an extensive system of highways, ports, locks and dams, and airports.
I eat meat because meat tastes like murder, and murder tastes pretty dam good!
It doesn't make you bad losing to Rob Van Dam... it just makes you like everybody else.
For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right.
Environmental groups are not completely against dams. We approve of appropriate development.
Regret, already sogging me down, burst its dam. It seeped into my legs, it pooled in my heart.
Reduce the number of lawyers. They are like beavers - they get in the middle of the stream and dam it up.
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.
Why dictator Musharraf, raising the slogan of 'Pakistan First,' did not think about construction of Dasu and Basha dams?
Undressing her was an act of recklessness, a kind of vandalism, like releasing a zoo full of animals, or blowing up a dam.
Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope... Especially for girls and women, it is an agent of family health and nutrition.
The sound of water escaping from mill dams, etc., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork, I love such things.
Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.
Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so dam serious.
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.
New schools, hospitals, clinics, factories, bridges, dams, and airports tell the story of a South Africa that has indeed moved forward.
We have over 30 dams in Puerto Rico, and I think only one works. We're here in the rain forest, and we have plenty of water. It's insane.
Investing in long overdue infrastructure projects like the Montgomery Locks and Dams system is critical to the health of our region's economy.
Most of the locks and dams on the upper Mississippi River system are over 60 years old and many are in serious need of repair and rehabilitation.
Words, like tranquil waters behind a dam, can become reckless and uncontrollable torrents of destruction when released without caution and wisdom.
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.
For the good of our environment, the good of the economy, and the good of the Nation, I strongly urge support of the upper Mississippi locks and dams project.
I want to work in water resources, as I think creating a string of check dams and utilizing water better is far more cost-effective than large stand-alone dams.
We depend on our rivers and dams for energy, transportation, irrigation and recreation and I will continue this year to fight for what's best for the Pacific Northwest.
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.
Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.
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.
Renewables require the use of vastly more land, longer and less-utilized transmission lines, and large amounts of storage whether from lithium batteries, new dams, compressed air caverns.
Though dams and artificial lakes can have significant negative environmental impacts, when carefully considered, mitigated, and managed, the benefits of hydropower often outweigh these costs.
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.
The Nehru years were rather very peaceful years. A lot happened in those years: dams were built, five-year plans were made, Chandigarh was built in front of my eyes. Those were the years I grew up in.
In California, there are huge problems because of dams. I'm against big dams, per se, because I think that they are economically unfeasible. They're ecologically unsustainable. And they're hugely undemocratic.
In 1975, the collapse of a cascade of Chinese dams during a flood killed a hundred and seventy-one thousand people, but the event is rarely discussed, and the names of the victims are largely unrecorded today.
If I can get that DAM trio back together again - "get the band back together" - and put on a concert of David Bowie's electronic music, that's the way I want to remember David, moving forward into the future of music.
The good thing about Dennis [ Mathis] is, even though he's a white, he respected that I was doing something quirky with my English. He loved it when I would mix up the Americanisms and say, "That's water over the dam."
The great monuments are raised up like dams, pitting the logic of majesty and authority against all the shady elements: it is in the form of cathedrals and palaces that Church and State speak and impose silence on the multitudes.
Human civilization has been changing the Earth's environment for millennia, often to our detriment. Dams, deforestation and urbanization can alter water cycles and wind patterns, occasionally triggering droughts or even creating deserts.
There are no dams in Achankovil, Manimala, and Chaliyar rivers. Water in Achankovil flooded Pandalam, Manimala flooded Thiruvalla, and Chaliyar flooded Nilambur. So, based on what logic is someone saying that the reason for the floods is the opening of reservoirs?
Nuclear is the only energy source that has proven capable of fully replacing fossil fuels at low-cost in wealthy nations. While hydro-electric dams can sometimes play that role, they are limited to nations with powerful rivers, many of which have already been dammed.
As beavers build dams and bees build hives, human beings have spears. Or take the high intelligence of human beings, the ability to make plans, to transmit information - that was also there before, but that, together with the tools, was not enough to make man special.