#promote

When resources are degraded, we start competing for them, whether it is at the local level in Kenya, where we had tribal clashes over land and water, or at the global level, where we are fighting over water, oil, and minerals. So one way to promote peace is to promote sustainable management and equitable distribution of resources. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#competing #degraded #distribution #equitable #fighting

Despite the encouraging and wonderful gains and the changes for women which have occurred in my lifetime, there is still room to advance and to promote correction of the remaining deficiencies and imbalances. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#changes #correction #deficiencies #despite #encouraging

We can make a commitment to promote vegetables and fruits and whole grains on every part of every menu. We can make portion sizes smaller and emphasize quality over quantity. And we can help create a culture - imagine this - where our kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them. ↗

— Michelle Obama

#ask #commitment #create #culture #emphasize

I want art to make me think. In order to do that, it may piss me off, or make me uncomfortable. That promotes awareness and change, or at least some discussion. ↗

— Pink

#awareness #change #discussion #i #least

I dropped out of school in the 11th grade because there was no purpose in it for me. I'm not proud of this, and I'm not trying to promote it. ↗

— Lisa Marie Presley

#dropped #grade #i #me #out

The government would also be wise to press on with its further measures to promote growth, as it will want to outperform the low figures in this outlook. This will mean delivering measures to ease money and credit and to stimulate demand. ↗

— John Redwood

#credit #delivering #demand #ease #figures

Your performance gets you promoted. It doesn't matter if you're brown, back or white. ↗

— Geraldo Rivera

#brown #gets #matter #performance #promoted

Between Scott on the earlier side and Dickens and Thackeray on the other, there was an immense production of novels, illustrated by not a few names which should rank high in the second class, while some would promote more than one of them to the first. ↗

— George Saintsbury

#class #dickens #earlier #few #first

They've gone to great length to disguise the fact that I'm not in the band, even sending out a photo to promoters with my picture in it which then winds up in some of the ads on the flyers. ↗

— Jello Biafra

#band #disguise #even #fact #flyers

Because I was the blonde, I was promoted as the video vixen. ↗

— Nina Blackwood

#blonde #i #promoted #video