"Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books."

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"Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books."

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"The mistake that was made was, of course, leaving Saddam in charge of affairs over there."

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"I can support going in after Saddam Hussein, but I want to make sure I don't go alone."

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