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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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"Control your thoughts to define your life."
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"The quality of your life depends on how you take control of your time."
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"So usually even if you like a sentence or a story or something, it won't come out that way - it'll come out years later, and in a different way, and you don't really control that."
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"You put the thing that does the killing between your teeth, but you never give it the power to kill you."
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"You can control one thing and that is your thoughts."
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"Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn't control you--you should control them."
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"The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection."
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"A man with a victim mentality attracts autocrats into his life who will decide how he should live."
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"All identification is for control and ownership."
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"If you fail to control your thought, your thought will never fail to control you! Master the art of controlling your thought better and your thought will control you better."
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"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 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
"Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged."
Land
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
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