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In the 1960s, I personally lived the resounding impact of President Nasser's vision of constructing Aswan's High Dam as a 'national project' for controlling the Nile irrigation and the production of electricity. -- Ahmed Zewail
This is our history - from the Transcontinental Railroad to the Hoover Dam, to the dredging of our ports and building of our most historic bridges - our American ancestors prioritized growth and investment in our nation's infrastructure. -- Cory Booker
All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly. -- Edward Abbey
I need to use the Dam Bathroom, I need to use the Dam Snack bar, I want a Dam Tee-Shirt. -- Rick Riordan
Free shackled rivers!...The finest fantasy of eco-warriors in the West is the destruction of [Glen Canyon] Dam and the liberation of the Colorado [River]. -- David Foreman
The beaver told the rabbit as they stared at the Hoover Dam: No, I didn't build it myself, but it's based on an idea of mine -- Charles Hard Townes
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. -- Edward Abbey
Nothing so challenges the American spirit as tackling the biggest job on earth....Americans are stimulated by the big job; the Panama Canal, Boulder Dam, Grand Coulee, Lower Colorado River developments, the tallest building in the world, the mightiest battleship. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
The Democrats are going to change the name of the Hoover Dam. That is the silliest thing I ever heard of in politics . . . Lord if they feel that way about it, I don't see why they don't just reverse the two words. -- Will Rogers
Computers shouldn't be unusable. You don't need to know how to work a telephone switch to make a phone call, or how to use the Hoover Dam to take a shower, or how to work a nuclear-power plant to turn on the lights. -- Scott McNealy
Every artist wants his work to be permanent. But what is? The Aswan Dam covered some of the greatest art in the world. Venice is sinking. Great books and pictures were lost in the Florence floods. In the meantime we still enjoy butterflies. -- Romare Bearden
There's no doubt in my mind that we'll have a mania in gold. And because the gold and especially silver markets are so tiny, the rush into them will be like trying to push the contents of Hoover Dam through a garden hose. Our positions will go absolutely ballistic. -- Doug Casey
It doesn't make you bad losing to Rob Van Dam... it just makes you like everybody else. -- Rob Van Dam
Lawyers are like beavers: They get in the mainstream and dam it up. -- John Naisbitt
You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land. -- Billy Sunday
Reduce the number of lawyers. They are like beavers - they get in the middle of the stream and dam it up. -- Donald Rumsfeld
As many will remember, a respected Army Corps economist filed a whistleblower complaint about the Corps' use of faulty data to justify lock and dam expansion. -- Ron Kind
One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man. -- John Muir
We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today. -- Henry Ford
Whether it's 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. -- Sean Patrick Maloney
How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to the clear blue sky. -- E. T. A. Hoffmann
Anyone who has been around Washington politics long enough can't avoid this truism: Election-year money is like a rushing river that invariably finds cracks in any dam the reformers erect. -- Nina Easton
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Some types of environmental restoration projects are well-known; restored wetlands, for instance, or coal mine reclamation projects. Recently though, larger dam removal projects have started, a number of them in Washington state. -- Matt Gonzalez
While I remain troubled by the Corps' inability to fully justify the Model they used for their commercial traffic predictions, America clearly has an aging lock and dam infrastructure on the Mississippi. -- Ron Kind
I was actually telling people that - by harnessing the atom - we could enter a new era of unlimited power that would do away with the need to dam our beautiful streams. -- David R. Brower
We can't put up a protectionist dam on our own against the neo-liberal world market either. However, we can try, together with our European partners, to maintain the social character of Europe as much as possible. -- Johan Huizinga
The summer of 1830 I... blasted the tunnel through the rock to take water from the dam above the falls for the mill... In 1831 we lowered the tunnel four feet, and built a new dam across the creek. -- Ezra Cornell
The Egyptian Nile, though it does have its own particular hazards, is subject to none of what I find in Rhode Island. Since the Aswan High Dam was built in 1973, the Nile has become something of a grand canal. It is wide, flat, slow, and so calm it verges on the geriatric. -- Rosemary Mahoney
For an economy built to last we must invest in what will fuel us for generations to come. This is our history - from the Transcontinental Railroad to the Hoover Dam, to the dredging of our ports and building of our most historic bridges - our American ancestors prioritized growth and investment in our nation's infrastructure. -- Cory Booker
Where's the dam water fountain I'm thirsty? -- Rick Riordan
It is so dam difficult to be simple. -- Valquiria Oliveira
Life is a tragedy. so, walk through it with a dam SMILE -- chefPrayas
I eat meat because meat tastes like murder, and murder tastes pretty dam good! -- Denis Leary
Evolution is a theory with more holes than a Dutch dam of swiss cheese. -- Eoin Colfer
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One of these days the dam of Gods mercy will give way to his justice. -- Adrian Rogers
The Theory of Evolution has more holes in it than a dam made out of Swiss cheese. -- Eoin Colfer
God is a great underground river that no one can dam up and no one can stop. -- Meister Eckhart
But I never get attracted to fans cause the eager beaver could be the collapse of a dam -- Drake
Tragedy can break the heart but not the dam of the tearducts while schmaltz can dissolve the most hardened sophisticate. -- Cornelia Otis Skinner
If you want to see Chris Jericho drink a beer with Stone Cold Steve Austin, give me a doo-a dee-dee-dam, dee-dee-doo. -- Chris Jericho
Words, like tranquil waters behind a dam, can become reckless and uncontrollable torrents of destruction when released without caution and wisdom. -- William Arthur Ward
Home is my Bethlehem, my succoring shelter, my mental hospital, my wife, my dam, my husband, my sir, my womb, my skull. -- Anne Sexton
Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so dam serious. -- Jacques Maritain
Undressing her was an act of recklessness, a kind of vandalism, like releasing a zoo full of animals, or blowing up a dam. -- Michael Chabon
Grace is alive, living waters. If I dam up the grace, hold the blessings tight, joy within dies... waters that have no life. -- Ann Voskamp
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. -- Rick Riordan
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. -- Franny Billingsley
New formalism is writing with language as flow, like the flow from a dam, running through a desert that has had no rain for decades. -- Shirley Geok-lin Lim
A direful death indeed they had That would put any parent mad But she was more than usual calm She did not give a singel dam. -- Marjorie Fleming
Queegqueg no care what god made him shark ... wedder Fejee god or Nantucket god; but de god what made him shark must be one dam Ingin. -- Herman Melville
As many will remember, a respected Army Corps economist filed a whistleblower complaint about the Corps' use of faulty data to justify lock and dam expansion." -- Ron Kind
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. -- Amos Elon
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. -- Sean Patrick Maloney
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. -- Thomas Hood
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. -- Paul Otellini
You can't argue with a river, it isgoing to flow.You can dam it up?put it to useful purposes?deflect it, but you can't argue with it. -- Dean Acheson
They can stop a river by building a dam, but I will be damned if they can stop my river of blood flowing through my veins and heart. -- Anthony Liccione
And I think that's important, to know how the water's gone over the dam before you start to describe it. It helps to have been over the dam yourself. -- Annie Proulx
Go around asking a lot of dam fool questions and taking chances. Only through curiosity can we discover opportunities, and only by gambling can we take advantage of them. -- Clarence Birdseye
Every morning when I awake I ask myself whether I should write or blow up a dam. I tell myself I should keep writing, though I'm not sure that's right -- Derrick Jensen
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Now the good gods forbid That our renowned Rome, whose gratitude Towards her deserved children is enrolled In Jove's own book, like an unnatural dam Should now eat up her own! -- William Shakespeare
Skateboarders are envied by people because they just glide so free. Any time something moves like water, they'll make a dam. Every time something moves in nature, they want to stop it. -- Mark Gonzales
Some types of environmental restoration projects are well-known restored wetlands, for instance, or coal mine reclamation projects. Recently though, larger dam removal projects have started, a number of them in Washington state. -- Matt Gonzalez

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