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"Earlier, 100,000 elephants lived in Kenya and we didn't have any noteworthy problem with it. The problem that we have is not that there are now more elephants."
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"We have our own reasons for what's motivating us right now."

"Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail."

"If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative."
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"The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing."

"I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theater, or the play-but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem."

"Ask yourself: was there anything I could have done to prevent the situation? If the answer is yes, do something now and become a better person for it."
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"The slapdash way producers used to assemble a show seems a little unbelievable when we talk about them now."
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"To investigate the history of man's development, the most important finds are, of course, hominid fossils."

"The problem is that during the 1980s, a decade of heavy poaching, the elephants retreated to safer areas. And now people have moved into the corridors once used by the elephants."

"For fossils to thrive, certain favorable circumstances are required. First of all, of course, remnants of life have to be there. These then need to be washed over with water as soon as possible, so that the bones are covered with a layer of sediment."

"Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance."

"It is virtually impossible to control Northern Kenya, which is populated chiefly by migrant nomads."

"Primates need good nutrition, to begin with. Not only fruits and plants, but insects as well."

"The land is not in the least bit fertile and yet the cattle herds grow larger and larger. A cow represents capital investment here."

"We hope to find more pieces of the puzzle which will shed light on the connection between this upright, walking ape, our early ancestor, and modern man."

"We are concerned that, in a few years time, this place of discovery, with its wealth of human fossils, the like of which can be found nowhere else in the world, could be completely destroyed."
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