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"Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land to install a military base, and he only wanted to plant a Venezuelan flag there?"
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"The ranch was raw land when I bought it and, for better or worse, I have designed every aspect of it from the corrals, the arena, to the barn, to the house."
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"Protecting all this land, working with the President to establish all these monuments, to, you know... I think the President has a land protection record that's second to no one in this century, maybe Teddy Roosevelt."

"The next summer, 1794, corn grew dear, and distress began in our land."

"Here I found those who had set out before me, both by sea and land, except those who have died."

"Down in the south, it's how we find the brownfield sites without taking too much land take to meet the tremendous demand for housing, and that's what I've done."
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"A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction."

"There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything."

"The world had already changed before September 11. The world has been going through a process of change over the last 20 or 30 years. A civilization ends, another one begins."

"Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity."

"As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things."

"The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO."

"Without the faintest possibility of finding a job, I decided to devote myself to literature: it was about time to find out what I was worth as a writer."

"In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays."
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