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Forty percent of the United States drains into the Mississippi. It's agriculture. It's golf courses. It's domestic runoff from our lawns and roads. Ultimately, where does it go? Downstream into the gulf. -- Sylvia Earle
Downstream is always someone else's up. -- Barbara Kingsolver
Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream. -- W. C. Fields
Law is downstream from culture. By the time you make a law about something, you're reacting, not acting. I'd rather shape the culture. -- Rick Warren
When you pollute a river, it's a supreme injustice to those who are downstream and those who live in the river who are not human beings. -- Paul Hawken
All communities have a right to clean water. The taxpayers of Pueblo should not have to carry the burden of the clean up cost simply because they live downstream. -- John Salazar
We are considering various ways of making use of our oil and gas downstream industries. This is to be complemented with the import of oil and gas from other sources as raw materials. -- Hassanal Bolkiah
I needed to explain that Louisiana's coast accepts the drainage from two-thirds of the United States and, while the necessary levees constructed upstream have prevented floods, they have also contributed to problems downstream. -- John Breaux
The Internet is emblematic of an era in which what happens in Southeast Asia or southern Africa - from democratic advances to deforestation to the fight against aids - can affect Americans. As has been observed about water pollution, we all live downstream now. -- Shashi Tharoor
So much of the downstream revenue is linked to that initial excitement, to how much revenue is produced in the domestic box office. For example, what we pay for a film three years later is highly correlated to how well it did in the box office. -- Reed Hastings
There is a preliminary belief that Tuolumne River water could be captured by other reservoirs that are downstream from Hetch Hetchy, the Cherry and Don Pedro reservoirs for instance. Furthermore, any shortfalls could be supplied via greater conservation efforts, newly discovered groundwater supplies, and water purchases when necessary. -- Matt Gonzalez
The irony is that it was tougher to rent a car from Cerberus when it owned Alamo than to buy a semi-automatic. To rent a car, one had to provide ID, a drivers' license, and get insurance coverage. To buy a gun? Cash and carry, from the back of a station wagon at a gun show. No concerns about downstream liability or risk. -- Eliot Spitzer
We all live downstream -- David Suzuki
Politics is downstream from culture. -- Andrew Breitbart
In planetary terms, we're all downstream. -- William McDonough
Turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream. -- John Lennon
Let go of the oars... Everything you want is downstream. -- Esther Hicks
Whenever in doubt, turn off your mind, relax, float downstream. -- Timothy Leary
...Drifting downstream in a row boat doesn't count against your life span. -- James Patterson
Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you. -- Wendell Berry
That's what life is, a continual state of journey. You are a river passing downstream. -- Jon Foreman
Why kick the man downstream who can't put the parts together because the parts really weren't designed properly? -- Philip Caldwell
Songs are like fish. You just gotta have your line in the water. And it's a bad idea to fish downstream from Bob Dylan. -- Arlo Guthrie
The downstream effects are unknown. Do your best and hope for the best. If you're improving the world-however you define that-consider your job well done. -- Tim Ferriss
A story should be like a river, flowing and never stopping, your readers passengers on a boat, whirling downstream through constantly refreshing and changing scemery. -- Ray Bradbury
If life is a river, then pursuing Christ requires swimming upstream. When we stop swimming, or actively following Him, we automatically begin to be swept downstream. -- Francis Chan
Songwriting is like fishing in a stream; you put in your line and hope to catch something. And I don't think anyone downstream from Bob Dylan ever caught anything. -- Arlo Guthrie
Everything that we want is downstream... And you don't have even have to turn the boat and paddle downstream, just let go of the oars, the current will carry you. -- Esther Hicks
Everybody is talking about the behavior. Behaviors float downstream to us. We need to paddle upstream. The problems that are causing the behaviors, that's what's waiting for us. It's a crucial paradigm shift. -- Ross W. Greene
Government support is not only investing in upstream areas like basic research, but also in downstream areas like applied research and early-stage financing for the companies themselves. This means there are great risks. -- Mariana Mazzucato

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