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"I remember saying to the chairman after serving the first year, "Why are we doing this? Why don't the Hawaiians have control?" "Well, we have no mechanism to do it," I was told."
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"Through all life changes , God is in control."
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"A salary is, to a man's employer, what his wife's vagina is to his wife: a tool used to (1) reward; and (2) control him."
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"We cannot act according to the promptings of our flesh."
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"Stay calm and exercise restrain during your most desperate moment or you shall desperately say what when your desperation is over, you shall come to a later realization of what you shouldn't have say and notice how silence could have been the best option to mere words!"
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"You may not have the power to control whatever happens to you, but you have the power to stop it from affecting your sense of style."
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"It is sad, people what to control others. But they have not learned to know their soul."
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"You can't control anything in this world except your perception and emotion."
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"Now, he realized, he simply had to take what he wanted. He had to control the winds, not the other way around (p. 434)."
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"When parameters are not set for man, there is always an unknown abuse."
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"Joblessness gives you control over the product of your life."
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"Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged."
Land
"There was a queen that was overthrown here. So I was affected by all of that and felt profoundly grateful for the opportunity to live in Hawaii, and I set out at once to try to fit in."
Opportunity
"You're talking serious money already in the bank, and millions of dollars coming in every year."
Money
"When there wasn't any money involved, for all intents and purposes, nobody gave a damn. But now the land, supposedly worthless, is seen for what it really is: an incredibly valuable asset."
Money
"Land began to be seen as something to be owned privately and exploited for private interests, and never was entirely reconciled with the old ideas that land should be utilized in common for the good of all."
Creativity
"A good portion of the airport is on ceded lands, and lease money was paid for that. So the state's collecting lease money because all of a sudden "worthless" land now has an airport on it."
Money
"So there's always been this clash between what is the public good - that which belongs to all of us in common - and what can be exploited for a private interest."
Interest
"So as soon as the land was worth something and there was money in the bank, all of a sudden everybody got interested in non-discrimination, in who's really going to administer this stuff."
Money
"Land in Hawaii is money. What I'm talking about here is ceded land - land that belonged to the kingdom and was ceded to the republic and then to the state when we achieved statehood."
Money
"I remember saying to the chairman after serving the first year, "Why are we doing this? Why don't the Hawaiians have control?" "Well, we have no mechanism to do it," I was told."
Control
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