82 Oxygen Quotes for You to Enjoy

Photosynthetic organisms in the sea yield most of the oxygen in the atmosphere, take up and store vast amounts of carbon dioxide, shape planetary chemistry, and hold the planet steady. Sylvia Earle

Chemistry Atmosphere Steady Vast Shape Take Most Up Yield Oxygen Store Hold Planet Planetary Organisms Sea Carbon Carbon Dioxide Amount

You'd think skiing wouldn't be strenuous - all you have to do, after all, is start at the top and let gravity pull you to the dessert bar in the lodge. But at those elevations, you'll find about as much oxygen as you'll find kindness from your children. It's like spending six hours holding your breath. W. Bruce Cameron

Kindness You Holding Breath Think Spending Top Dessert Those Lodge Find About Like Hours Six Oxygen Children After Bar Much Skiing Your Gravity Start Strenuous Pull

Civil society space provides the oxygen for citizens to participate and meaningfully hold their governments and the private sector to account - and ensure that decisions are made in the interest of the majority and not the few. Without it, citizens have limited space to dissent and challenge the elites. Winnie Byanyima

Space Challenge Made Few Society Dissent Ensure Sector Citizens Civil Civil Society Participate Majority Without Limited Private Provides Governments Private Sector Account Oxygen Hold Interest Decisions Meaningfully Elites

I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen. Tom Stoppard

Work Freedom Dictatorship Pure Secretly Slightly Totalitarian Write Envied Put Idea Readers Authorities Intense Jail Artists Autocracy Oxygen Want While Interest Interested Them Younger Working Who Gratification Whom

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