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"Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged."
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"Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise."
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"If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey?"
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"When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere."
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"The guys today are just too strong and back then they would take many hard punches to land one."
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"Prayer for many is like a foreign land. When we go there, we go as tourists. Like most tourists, we feel uncomfortable and out of place. Like most tourists, we therefore move on before too long and go somewhere else."
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"Louisiana loses 30 miles a year off our coast. We lost 100 miles last year off our coast thanks to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. We have lost a size of land equivalent to the entire state of Rhode Island."
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"Maintaining healthy forests is essential to those who make a living from the land and for those of us who use them for recreational purposes."
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"They say that it were great reproof to the king to take again what he has given, so that they will not suffer him to have his own good, nor land, nor forfeiture, nor any other good but they ask it from him, or else they take bribes of others to get it for him."
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"In Amsterdam the water is the mistress and the land the vassal. throughout the city there are as many canals and drawbridges as bracelets on a Gypsy's bronzed arms."
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"Protecting all this land, working with the President to establish all these monuments, to, you know... I think the President has a land protection record that's second to no one in this century, maybe Teddy Roosevelt."
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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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"You're talking serious money already in the bank, and millions of dollars coming in every year."
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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
"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
"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
"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."
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