At independence, Tanzania had 350,000 elephants... in 1987, there were only 55,000 elephants left.

Author: Jakaya Kikwete

Author: Jakaya Kikwete

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She removed the shining black disk from its sleeve, holding it by the edges. After she placed it on

Author: Ken Doyle
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The First Mobile, if one is sent, must be warned that unless he is very self-assured, or senile, his

Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
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Music took her somewhere, and I used to wonder where. I thought it was dumb, the way she lived for a

Author: Megan Lindholm
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It's all about music, because music is basically what's... been my avenue out of maybe being involve

Author: Pitbull
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A waiting person is a patient person. The word patience means the willingness to stay where we are a

Author: Henri J.M. Nouwen
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I'm most dangerous when bored." ~Drahomira, vampire

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Want to know the best part of being a warlord?' came a hoarse whisper.I bit my lip, puzzled by the q

Author: Elizabeth Vaughan
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When your dream doesn't let you sleep even after 22 hours of waking up, it's worth chasing.

Author: Dhaval Gajera
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The future is as bright as the promises of God.

Author: William Carey
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The journey across the landscape of loss to the inner self takes courage and persistence. It is a ri

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If I cannot be useful to my country, I'll try to be useful to my leader and to all the people around

Author: Johni Pangalila
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But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat it; for in the day that thou e

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I can't afford to say yes to all my staff's desires, but one thing is certain – I can't afford the o

Author: John Yokoyama
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Ah, but dreams cannot be captured with promises," he said. "Like water, they elude our grasp. But wa

Author: Mary Balogh
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A rape victim... a rape victim who fights...They've been violated, made helpless and afraid. It brea

Author: Patricia Briggs
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We speak in (rich) monotones. Our poetry is haunted by the music it has left behind. Orpheus shrinks

Author: George Steiner
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Joe’s scientific life is defined by these significant near misses… He was Shackleton many times, alm

Author: Janna Levin
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Therefore, a search for God's will should begin on your knees. He will meet you there. Remember that

Author: James C. Dobson
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Oh, Troy? He’s no one. He wanted something more from me than I could give.”“Friends with benefits?”

Author: Leslea Tash
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The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee. And I pay more for

Author: John D. Rockefeller
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The ultimate altruism is nothing but the sacrifice of one’s self for the benefit of others. Love you

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Everything can turn around in a moment, if you just change your thoughts, and make different decisio

Author: Stacie Hammond
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My life is like a speeding bullet that just hasn't hit the target yet.

Author: Kid Cudi
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I met two or three men who were very kind to me. There was a magistrate who couldn't stand priests,

Author: Pitigrilli
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Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.

Author: Ernest Dimnet
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Our hesitancy to take credit for our accomplishments results in a loss of power, influence, and poli

Author: Bonnie Marcus
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If you fall, rise up, shake off the dust and try again.

Author: Gladys Bejani
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Their engaging manner is grounded in consideration as they seek to get along well with others. Peopl

Author: Susan C. Young
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Imagination is bigger than knowledge. Yet, facts are often bigger than imagination. We didn't imagin

Author: Torin Sarasas
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I've been a fan of 'Rocky Horror'... my mom let me see it at a really early age.

Author: Christina Milian
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Art is a product of the intuitive—the most powerful instrument within us. The intuitive is the most

Author: Louis I. Kahn
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By having good memories on every place you just visit, you are building paradise in your own heart a

Author: Toba Beta
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The general public, formerly profoundly indifferent to everything to do with building, has been shak

Author: Walter Gropius
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(Regarding Marriage) Both people need to care deeply about the other person, to put the other’s need

Author: Alessandra Torre
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Traditional guidelines for manifestation in the three-dimensional world are not enough to ensure man

Author: Elaine Seiler
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When did your flight plan become a holding pattern, always circling happiness, but never allowed to

Author: John Mark Green
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There are no shadows in the Underdark. There is no room for imagination in the Underdark. It is a pl

Author: R.A. Salvatore
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Slowly, the light receded, and she could see a singe sword, hanging in the air, a sword of pure whit

Author: Tyrean Martinson
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Let’s just say Noah and Flynn enjoy the chase, and when they catch their woman, they keep her tied s

Author: Fiona Archer
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I read your diary. I KNOW.

Author: Mary Papas
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Kurogane: For all my life... I've wanted strength. I didn't want those things precious to me to be t

Author: CLAMP
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It wasn't right. Evil should look evil. It should reek like rotten flesh, not smell like pine cleane

Author: Sydney Croft
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At one point in my life you'll have my best but not my whole.

Author: Peter Adejimi
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A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. I have not got one who is a fool.

Author: Oscar Wilde
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I guess it's over now," I said bravely. "Right?""Is that what you want?"My throat clenched. I shook

Author: Lisa Kleypas
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A true friend is not angry when you insult. Instead they think of more insulting words to you.

Author: Sphencer Perales
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To be frank, it sometimes seems that the American idea of freedom has more to do with my freedom to

Author: Douglas Adams
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When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done!

Author: Dennis Weaver
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I think: by the time I'm old, nobody will be able to die any more.

Author: Sara Baume
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It was Hell, if hell is where the life we love cannot exist.

Author: Jeanette Winterson
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September 11, 2001: Citizens of the U.S., besieged by terror’s sting,rose up, weeping glory, as if o

Author: Aberjhani
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Why had she imagined he was attractive? He was absolutely the biggest, most complete and utter jacka

Author: Christina Dodd
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Cash flow never comes from making people redundant.

Author: kamil Toume
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Only you can decide what you become.

Author: Seth Adam Smith
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…she did not believe that the world was a vale of tears but rather a joke that God had played and th

Author: Isabel Allende
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One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

Author: Kahlil Gibran
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Gentlemen, be courteous to the old maids, no matter how poor and plain and prim, for the only chival

Author: Louisa May Alcott
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You can curse the darkness, or you can dispel it.

Author: A.D. Posey
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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth and every other man has a right to knock him do

Author: Samuel Johnson
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The most luxurious home is the most peaceful one.

Author: Mahrukh
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You are worth everything that nature can give you.And I pray to whatever I believe in that you find

Author: Philippe Renaud
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Lord of the Muck.

Author: Ottilie Weber
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My competence is my complete confidence in Christ.

Author: Unknown
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I loved him because I knew him. Because I'd seen the man he truly was inside, and it never failed to

Author: Julianna Scott
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Any defensiveness is a sign of failure. You can't move forward if you are defensive.

Author: Bryant McGill
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I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The weather was clear and still, and the countless stars opened above them, seeming like brilliant c

Author: Alison Croggon
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True autonomy is preceded by the experience of being dependent. True liberation can be found only be

Author: Unknown
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The past may not hurt you, but it won't challenge you, either.

Author: Brad Meltzer
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Her was interested in the shadow herself - how her mind worked, what motivated her, her essence, how

Author: Erin Kellison
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It is only with burning anger that we can speak of this attack by counter-revolutionary reactionary

Author: Janos Kadar
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She said: Sheriff how come you to let crime get so out of hand in your county? Sounded like a fair q

Author: Cormac McCarthy
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My favorite animal to hunt is probably elk. There's nothing like the sound of a bugling bull splitti

Author: Chris Pratt
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No true friendship takes account of credit and debt. It gives freely, without thought of compensatio

Author: Una McCormack
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Are you a monster if you kill monsters, especially if those monsters are inside your head?

Author: Deonté Jack
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Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunat

Author: Shunryu Suzuki
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But part of loving is sacrificing our ego's need to be right. Part of loving is realising that all o

Author: Brandan Roberston
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People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.

Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafón
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You write the way you think about the world. My motto in times of trouble - and I'm speaking of life

Author: Elizabeth McCracken
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God would not have brought you to this place to leave you here without the archangel's help.

Author: Eileen Anglin
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I’ve wanted many things in my life until I met you. Then I wanted nothing … except you. My existence

Author: Jewel E. Ann
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A gang of unpredictable ruffians by day who turned to enthralling storytellers after dark. "I would

Author: Russell S. Bonds
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A real love letter is made of insight, understanding, and compassion. Otherwise it's not a love lett

Author: Thich Nhat Hanh
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The friend of time doesn't spend all day saying: 'I haven't got time.' He doesn't fight with time. H

Author: Jean Vanier
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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make

Author: Lord Acton
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The basements of the churches I've loved reveal the foundation of the spiritual life to be not belie

Author: Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew
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There is a dedication to willful incompetence in many corporate government departments.

Author: Steven Magee
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Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

Author: Salvador Dalí
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Even when something is not your fault, toxic blame has no place in your life. Focus on your own empo

Author: Bryant McGill
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I don't smile as much as I should, even though I smile inside a lot.

Author: James Patterson
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I had been asking the universe and God to send me a way for me to help me. Show business has been so

Author: Louie Anderson
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And a human being whose life is nurtured in an advantage which has accrued from the disadvantage of

Author: James Agee
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As Haw prepared to leave, he started to feel more alive, knowing that he was finally able to laugh a

Author: Spencer Johnson
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As hard as I fought to hold on to my anger, to continue to hate my dad, the tugging of the good memo

Author: Mahtob Mahmoody
Quote #107199

Like a flower, be soft, loving, kind, and beautiful, but never lose the courage to bloom.

Author: Debasish Mridha
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Helping others without any expectation and without gain is just as much a gift to yourself as it is

Author: Kat Von D.
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Thus far we have shown that the meaning of life always changes, but that it never ceases to be. Acco

Author: Viktor E. Frankl
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God never gave up on us.We did!

Author: Anthony T. Hincks
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Reality, in fact, is always something you couldn't have guessed. That's one of the reasons I believe

Author: C.S. Lewis