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"You have to stand up for some things in this world."
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"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."
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"The world is like a brute beast, you teach it how it should behave towards you."
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"The world is but a perpetual see-saw."
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"I am not the world's greatest Negro violinist. I am the greatest violinist in the world!"
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"The world has just got more dangerous because the things we use have got more dangerous."
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"It's a strange world. Let's keep it that way."
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"You look at the world around you, and you take it apart into all its components. Then you take some of those components, throw them away, and plug in different ones, start it up and see what happens."
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"The toughest part was doing it in front of the world and recognizing that you had gotten to a point where if you didn't do something you were going to die."
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"It is a dark, dark world. If you're going to be in a dark world, I can't think of any better one to be in. I still think I'm very lucky to be in it."
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"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."
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"No one is satisfied with their life's work."
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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 feel greatly at fault in not having made a loud public protest about Belle Glade before this."
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"To be a friend of the Everglades is not necessarily to spend time wandering around out there."
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"The problem of the environment is the extension of good housekeeping of the thinking woman."
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"I take advantage of every thing I can - age, hair, disability - because my cause is just."
Age


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


"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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"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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"They are unique in the simplicity, the diversity, the related harmony of the forms of life that they enclose."
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