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Culture is the air we breathe all around us. -- Josh Fox
This air we breathe is precious, and the glaciers helped me understand that and stay focused on that. -- James Balog
Do not be afraid that joy will make the pain worse; it is needed like the air we breathe. -- Goran Persson
Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe, so we are no longer conscious of its presence. -- Godfrey Reggio
We need to be more conversant with it because science is in our lives. It's in everything. It's in the food we eat. It's in the air we breathe. It's everywhere. -- Alan Alda
Mozart, Beethoven - how can you not want to share them with everyone and anyone? This stuff is of as great importance as the food we eat and the air we breathe. -- Charles Hazlewood
Under the ominous shadow which the second World War and its attendant circumstances have cast on the world, peace has become as essential to civilized existence as the air we breathe is to life itself. -- Cordell Hull
We rarely think of the air we breathe, yet it is in us and around us all the time. In similar fashion, the presence of God penetrates us, is all around us, is always embracing us. -- Thomas Keating
The air we breathe, the water we drink, and the land we inhabit are not only critical elements in the quality of life we enjoy - they are a reflection of the majesty of our Creator. -- Rick Perry
Fracking has been used for more than 60 years to successfully drill over a million oil and gas wells in the U.S. Nonetheless, the prevailing mythology on the radical left is that the technology is 'poisoning our children' by polluting the water we drink and the air we breathe. -- Bob Beauprez
Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe. -- Langston Hughes
There are times when sympathy is as necessary as the air we breathe. -- Rose Pastor Stokes
Trust is like the air we breathe--when it's present, nobody really notices; when it's absent, everybody notices. -- Warren Buffett
The air we see in the paintings of the old masters is never the air we breathe. -- Edgar Degas
Preach the gospel to all the world! It is [as] free to all mankind as the air we breathe. -- Erastus Snow
When the truth offends no one it should come from our lips as naturally as the air we breathe. -- StanisÅ?aw I LeszczyÅ?ski
No issue is more compelling than the air we breathe, be it hot or cold, be it hawk or human. -- Jack Nicholson
After all, the same steps that reduce carbon pollution also clean the air we breathe, which saves lives and reduces disease. -- Michael Bloomberg
The air we breathe is still free, but for how much time. I believe someone is busy patenting it to start selling it for profit -- Bangambiki Habyarimana
Politics is not just about voting one day every four years. Politics is the air we breathe, the food we eat, and the road we walk on. -- Unita Blackwell
The ever-rising cost of living: Someday soon, the corporate technicians will be locking meters on our noses and charging us a royalty on the air we breathe. -- Edward Abbey
Usefulness, whatever form it may take, is the price we should pay for the air we breathe and the food we eat and the privilege of being alive. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural literacy is the oxygen of social intercourse. -- E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
Women who work at home rearing children and attending to various household tasks are expected to provide something that is absolutely essential yet costs nothing, like the air we breathe. -- Mary Jo Weaver
O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe. -- Langston Hughes
If we don't preserve forest habitat for spotted owls, then soon we won't have trees to refresh the air we breathe. And we're realizing that this applies to social ecology, as well. -- Sam Keen
The belief that words have a meaning of their own account is a relic of primitive word magic, and it is still a part of the air we breathe in nearly every discussion. -- Charles Kay Ogden
Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe. -- Edmund Burke
In the air we breathe, in the water we drink, in the earth we tread on, Life is every where. Nature lives: every pore is bursting with Life ; every death is only a new birth, every grave a cradle. -- George Henry Lewes
Trust is a social good to be protected just as much as the air we breathe or the water we drink. When it is damaged, the community as a whole suffers; and when it is destroyed, societies falter and collapse -- Sissela Bok
The model of the human habitat dictated by zoning is a formless, soul-less, centerless, demoralizing mess. It bankrupts families and townships. It disables whole classes of decent, normal citizens. It ruins the air we breathe. It corrupts and deadens our spirit. -- James Howard Kunstler
The Great Culling of the human race already has begun. It is being done through chemicals added to our drinking water, food, medicines, and the air we breathe - chemicals that have the known effect of reducing fertility and shortening lifespan. -- G. Edward Griffin
People have to realize that the air we breathe and the water we drink come from the ocean and will go back to the ocean one way or another, no matter how far away we may be from it. It's a perpetual cycle. -- Walter Munk
Our elected officials are able to regulate even the most personal aspects of our lives, from the cleanliness of the air we breathe to the identity of the people we marry. Keeping this in mind, casting a ballot is not just essential - it's practical! -- Maria Rubio
The morality of clean blood ought to be one of the first lessons taught us by our pastors and teachers. The physical is the substratum of the spiritual; and this fact ought to give to the food we eat, and the air we breathe, a transcendent significance. -- William Tyndale
The spirit of religious totalitarianism is abroad in the world; it is in the very air we breathe today in this land. Everywhere are those who claim to have a corner on righteousness, on direct access to God ... The bigots of the world are having a heyday. -- Sonia Johnson
The environment is everything that makes up our surroundings and affects our ability to live on the earth - the air we breathe, the water that covers most of the earth's surface, the plants and animals around us, the overall condition of our planet, and much more. -- Yaya Toure
We breathed the air of freedom without knowing the language or any person. -- Nelly Sachs
Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal. -- John F. Kennedy
Wealthy men can't live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance. -- Ayrton Senna
Perjury is the basest and meanest and most cowardly of crimes. What can it do? Perjury can change the common air that we breathe into the axe of an executioner. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Now that we have a democracy and you can go back and the airport air is not laden with evil any more, you can actually breathe oxygen when you land in Johannesburg. -- Janet Suzman
For in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's futures. And we are all mortal. -- John F. Kennedy
Music is a lady that I still love because she gives me the air that I breathe. We need all sorts of nourishment. And music satisfies and nourishes the hunger within ourselves for connection and harmony. -- Cat Stevens
I remember, as a boy of 17 years of age, this was a fascinating thing for me: how we human beings breathe out carbon dioxide into the air, the leaves of plants pick this carbon dioxide up, and the plant gives off oxygen, which we can breathe in and keep our life going. -- Percy Julian
For me, consciousness is the most interesting unsolved problem of science, and, in fact, we may never know what it is about a particular arrangement of neurons that gives rise to consciousness. Our consciousness, like the air we breathe or like the passage of time, is central to our existence as intelligent beings. -- Alan Lightman
I'm going to guess Republicans and Democrats, liberals and conservatives, all want clean air to breathe and clean water to drink. I'm sure most people think women should be paid the same as men if they're doing the same job. I think we all want good schools for our kids. If we made that list, we actually are in agreement on more things. -- Michael Moore
I, Maggie, personally cannot tell you that you're going to save the planet. But what I do know is that we can draw a line to an issue that can conserve what we already have and what's left in a way that we can actually breathe the air, drink the water, actually grow things in soil - that matters in a real, practical way. -- Maggie Q
To breathe, we do not only need air and lungs, but also freedom! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
The air has finally gotten to the place that we can breathe it together. -- Septima Poinsette Clark
He stole my breathe away the moment we first spoke. He's my air." -Sadie White -- Abbi Glines
The bird of truth would not be able to fly if it weren't for the air of lies we breathe. -- Eugene J. Martin
We breathe love as we breathe air; we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us. -- Guy de Maupassant
We all drink from one water We all breathe from one air We rise from one ocean And we live under one sky -- Anwar Fazal
I am convinced that the air we normally breathe is a kind of water, and men and women are a species of fish. -- D. H. Lawrence
We are born on the same soil, breathe the same air, live on the same land, and why should we not be brothers and sisters? -- Nathan Bedford Forrest

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