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We need to build roads, bridges, airports, locks, dams, and rail that work for this century - not the last one. And let's not forget about updating our energy grid, repairing and replacing our water infrastructure and sewers, and making sure all Americans have access to broadband.

~Amy Klobuchar

Topics: About Access Airport All Americans American Bridges Broadband Build Century Dams Energy Forget Grid Infrastructure Last Locks Making Need Our Rail Replacing Roads Sure Water Work

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Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away.

~Arthur Golden

Topics: Away Dams Even Give Never Never Give Up Rivers Someday Up Wash

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In California, there are huge problems because of dams. I'm against big dams, per se, because I think that they are economically unfeasible. They're ecologically unsustainable. And they're hugely undemocratic.

~Arundhati Roy

Topics: Against Because Big California Dams Economically Huge Hugely Per Problems Think Unsustainable I Think

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Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.

~Bertrand Russell

Topics: Admiration Age Dams Ideology Like Machine Part Power Proletariat Stations

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We depend on our rivers and dams for energy, transportation, irrigation and recreation and I will continue this year to fight for what's best for the Pacific Northwest.

~Cathy Mcmorris Rodgers

Topics: Best Continue Dams Depend Energy Fight Irrigation Northwest Our Pacific Recreation Rivers Transportation Will Year

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The Pacific Northwest depends on inexpensive renewable energy from our dams.

~Cathy Mcmorris Rodgers

Topics: Dams Depends Energy Inexpensive Northwest Our Pacific Renewable Renewable Energy

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New schools, hospitals, clinics, factories, bridges, dams, and airports tell the story of a South Africa that has indeed moved forward.

~Cyril Ramaphosa

Topics: Africa Airport Bridges Clinics Dams Factories Forward Hospitals Indeed Moved New Schools South South Africa Story Tell

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We have over 30 dams in Puerto Rico, and I think only one works. We're here in the rain forest, and we have plenty of water. It's insane.

~Eduardo Bhatia

Topics: Dams Forest Here Insane Only Over Plenty Puerto Puerto Rico Rain Rico Think Water Works I Think

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In 1975, the collapse of a cascade of Chinese dams during a flood killed a hundred and seventy-one thousand people, but the event is rarely discussed, and the names of the victims are largely unrecorded today.

~Evan Osnos

Topics: Chinese Collapse Dams Discussed Event Flood Hundred Largely Names People Rarely Thousand Today Victims

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