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Marjory Stoneman Douglas

"Child welfare ought really to cover all sorts of topics, such as better water and sanitation and good roads, and clean streets and public parks and playgrounds."

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"Child welfare ought really to cover all sorts of topics, such as better water and sanitation and good roads, and clean streets and public parks and playgrounds."

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"I realized that public affairs were also my affairs."

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"Or in other works I have also projected the sound in a cube of loudspeakers. The sound can move vertically and diagonally at all speeds around the public."

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"I give everything I have to give on the screen. I feel I don't owe the public anything else."

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"We didn't have a phone when I was a kid, and I was too shy to smash any public phones, and our town didn't have a pool hall either, so I had to hang out at the public library - and anyway, I told myself stories."

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"The European public has always been great to me."

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Amber Hurdle

"The public is never wrong."

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"Rather than lose the public because television is here, wouldn't it be smart to adopt television as our instrument?"

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"The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it."

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"I really did try to write it so that an educated public that cares about issues like this doesn't have to be a lawyer and can read it and understand it."

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"I think I will serve as secretary of state as my last public position."

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"The wealth of south Florida, but even more important, the meaning and significance of south Florida lies in the black muck of the Everglades and the inevitable development of this country to be the great tropic agricultural center of the world."
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"I feel greatly at fault in not having made a loud public protest about Belle Glade before this."
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"All we need, really, is a change from a near frigid to a tropical attitude of mind."
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"Whoever wants me to talk, I'll come over and tell them about the necessity of preserving the Everglades."
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"I wanted to go to a good college, and my mind was set on Wellesley."
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"There are no other Everglades in the world. They are, they have always been, one of the unique regions of the earth; remote, never wholly known. Nothing anywhere else is like them."
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"You have to stand up for some things in this world."
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"I'm just a tough old woman."
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"The miracle of light pours over the green and brown expanse of saw grass and of water, shining and slowly moving, the grass and water that is the meaning and the central fact of the Everglades. It is a river of grass."
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"Conservation is now a dead word."
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