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Bruce Babbitt

"No kidding. That's really true. You're paying your own bills through this. It's not a pleasant experience."

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"No kidding. That's really true. You're paying your own bills through this. It's not a pleasant experience."

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Amber Hurdle

"All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it."

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"No matter how loud the sirens or how numerous the hazard signs, we all touch the flames at least once to prove they're hot."

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"I wear my wrinkles like battle scars, having earned every last one slaying life's dragons. They boast of my victories and some defeats while their beauty is a wealth of wisdom gained."

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"Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young."

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"Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice."

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"Just because a person successfully steers a voyage through hell doesn't mean he ever wants to sail that route again."

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"Experience is by industry achiev'd,And perfected by the swift course of time."

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"What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?"

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"There is more experience on the field of justification than on the camp of training. Sometimes, you got to take actions to learn more."

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"I loved your breaking down that door, repeated Djuna. Through Rango she had breathed some other realm she had never attained before. She had touched through his act some climate of violence she had never known before."

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"What we've proven is that you can protect the environment, use it wisely and grow the economy and that there is no conflict between the two."
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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."
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"We have an obligation to live in harmony with creation, with our capital... with God's creation. And we need to administer and work that very carefully."
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"The Northwest is in better shape than it was eight years ago."
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"I grew up in the West, grew up on the land, was educated as a geologist. And I came here with a vision of what it is we ought to be doing."
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"We've set aside tens of millions of acres of those northwestern forests for perpetuity. The unemployment rate has gone not up, but down. The economy has gone up."
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"I look back on it, yeah, I'm in a much worse financial position than I was eight years ago. I'm going to have to go out at age 62 and kind of readdress some of that."
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"There's a basic kind of tension here. It's between those who say, I'd like to clear cut this forest and reduce it to saw timber because that's an economically productive thing for me to do."
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"I wouldn't miss this opportunity for anything. For the chance to work on these conservation issues, to serve my country, to work for this president, I'd do it all over again, every single minute."
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"They haul you up there for, you know, week after week in this kind of star chamber proceeding. Then at the end of it they say, well, we found nothing, but now it's time for special counsel."
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