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"You have to stand up for some things in this world."
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"We carry a new world here, in our hearts. That world is growing this minute."

"The world is an infinitely fascinating, tragic and humorous place."

"The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One."

"If it's flipping hamburgers at McDonald's, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whatever it is you do you have to master your craft."

"It's the same with visual arts, you have some really cool, wonderful striking images that make you think and then again you have wonderful striking images that just take you away from the existing world for a second. And I like the latter a bit more."

"I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?"
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"To be a friend of the Everglades is not necessarily to spend time wandering around out there."

"Whoever wants me to talk, I'll come over and tell them about the necessity of preserving the Everglades."

"The problem of the environment is the extension of good housekeeping of the thinking woman."

"It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere."

"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."

"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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