"I learn something from criticism because when it comes from sources you respect you always examine it and learn."
-Maurice Strong
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"One of the things that I've always thought I would like to do is to develop an environmental index. Then people can measure their own environmental performance on an index as they do in other ways.“
-Maurice Strong
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