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41 " Hoover Dam," Thalia said. " It's huge." We stood at the river's edge, looking up at a curve of concrete that loomed between the cliffs. People were walking along the top of the dam. They were so tiny they looked like fleas.The naiads had left with a lot of grumbling—not in words I could understand, but it was obvious they hated this dam blocking up their nice river. Our canoes floated back downstream, swirling in the wake from the dam's discharge vents." Seven hundred feet tall," I said. " Built in the 1930s." " Five million cubic acres of water," Thalia said.Graver sighed. " Largest construction project in the United States." Zoe stared at us. " How do you know all that?" " Annabeth," I said. " She liked architecture." " She was nuts about monuments," Thalia said." Spouted facts all the time." Grover sniffled. " So annoying." " I wish she were here," I said. "
42 " Where's the dam water fountain I'm thirsty? "
― Rick Riordan , The Titan's Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #3)
43 " Fighting a losing battle is as good as tucking in stones in your pockets, jumping in a dam and hoping to float. "
― Nomthandazo Tsembeni
44 " There was too much opinion in this country, too many sob stories. Nobody wanted to put a lid on anything; everyone wanted to say it all, about everything. If you as much as said hello to someone on a train or a plane, you were in for the unexpurgated memoirs. Nehru in 1947 had declared us a nation finding utterance - but in fifty years the utterance had become a mad clamour, a crazed babble, an unending howl. We were a nation of Scheherzades, afraid we'd die if, for a moment, we shut up. For myself, I'd mastered a face of steel, and an inscrutable nod. It did not always shut everyone up, but it did to some extent dam the ghastly flow. "
― Tarun J. Tejpal , The Story of My Assassins
45 " It all started when Dam went missing. "
― Andrew J. Peters , The Seventh Pleiade
46 " And I think that's important to know how the water's gone over the dam before you start to describe it. It helps to have been over the dam yourself. "
47 " With him for a sire and her for a dam What should I be but just what I am? "
48 " If you dam a river it stagnates. Running water is beautiful water. "
49 " We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today. "
50 " I was actually telling people that - by harnessing the atom - we could enter a new era of unlimited power that would do away with the need to dam our beautiful streams. "
51 " When the government undertakes or approves a major project such as a dam or highway project, it must make sure the project's impacts, environmental and otherwise, are considered. In many cases, NEPA gives the public its only opportunity to be heard about the project's impact on their community. "
52 " Some types of environmental restoration projects are well-known; restored wetlands, for instance, or coal mine reclamation projects. Recently though, larger dam removal projects have started, a number of them in Washington state. "
