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Salvage Quotes by L. Ron Hubbard, Henry Ford, Grace Gealey, Jesmyn Ward, Josephine Humphreys, Kelly Link and many others.

Now if we can get white population, immigrants and big companies and so on moving into Africa and if we can get with that Scientology well established in Southern Africa, why we can then look forward to a salvage operation base, in case the northern hemisphere’s lights go out.
L. Ron Hubbard
Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage. The easiest of all wastes and the hardest to correct is the waste of time, because wasted time does not litter the floor like wasted material.
Henry Ford
When I look around at this world, we women need each other so badly, it breaks my heart. Sisterhood is dissipating, and we aren’t doing nearly enough to salvage it. Eliminate the crazies in your life, yes. But also look again at those around you.
Grace Gealey
I wrote the first draft of my first novel at Michigan, and then I wrote the first draft of ‘Salvage the Bones’ at Stanford. So I workshopped the entire thing.
Jesmyn Ward
You know a relationship has deteriorated past the point of salvage when one person detests another’s gestures.
Josephine Humphreys
That larger story in ‘Salvage the Bones’ is just about survival, and I think that, in the end, there are things about this novel and about these characters’ experiences that make their stories universal stories.
Jesmyn Ward
You have to salvage what you can, even if you’re the one who buried it in the first place.
Kelly Link
Look at Obama – he is now [2015] trying to help us environmentally but he should have done it eight years ago. He’s trying to salvage his legacy and trying to do something good but we needed for him to show leadership from day one.
Patti Smith
The people of Hiroshima went to work at once to restore human society in the aftermath of the great atomic flood. They were concerned to salvage their own lives, but in the process they also salvaged the souls of the people who have brought the atomic bomb.
Kenzaburo Oe
When historians look at the Obama presidency, they’re likely to credit him especially for doing the politically unpopular things that were needed in 2009 to salvage the financial wreckage.
David Ignatius
God undertook the most dramatic rescue operation in cosmic history. He determined to save the human race from self-destruction, and He sent His Son Jesus Christ to salvage and redeem them. The work of man’s redemption was accomplished at the cross.
Billy Graham
Often if a picture is in trouble one way or another, there are ways to salvage it, through reshoots or whatever.
John Knoll
A pig has a plow on the end of its nose because it does meaningful work with it. It is built to dig and create soil disturbance, something it can’t do in a concentrated feeding environment. The omnivore has historically been a salvage operation for food scraps around the homestead.
Joel Salatin
The refusal of the British and Russian peoples to accept what appeared to be inevitable defeat was the great factor in the salvage of our civilization.
George C. Marshall
As a privileged survivor of the First World War, I hope I may be allowed to interject here a deeply felt tribute to those who were not fortunate enough to succeed, but who shared the signal honor of trying to the last to salvage peace.
Rene Cassin
Some of the critics viewed Vietnam as a morality play in which the wicked must be punished before the final curtain and where any attempt to salvage self-respect from the outcome compounded the wrong. I viewed it as a genuine tragedy. No one had a monopoly on anguish.
Henry A. Kissinger
Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.
George Orwell
During normal cell metabolism, RNA is constantly being made and broken down. The purine and pyrimidine residues are reused by several salvage pathways to make more genetic material. Purine is salvaged in the form of the corresponding nucleotide, whereas pyrimidine is salvaged as the nucleoside.
Richard J. Roberts
It’s as if women are in a totally rigged race. A lot of men are driving souped-up, low-slung racing cars and we’re running as fast as we can in tennis shoes we managed to salvage from a local garage sale.
Naomi Weisstein
She would grab whatever she could -a look , a whisper , a moan – to salvage from perishing , to perserve. But time is most unforgivving of fires , and she couldn’t , in the end , save it all .
Khaled Hosseini
For people who are displaced, you can reconstruct the story of your life from the objects you have access to, but if you don’t have the objects then there are holes in your life. This is why people in Bosnia – if anyone was running back into a burning house, it was to salvage photos.
Aleksandar Hemon
The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters… and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.
Jacques Yves Cousteau