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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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"When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere."
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"This land, this water, this air, this planet - this is our legacy to our young."
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"And finally Winter, with its bitin', whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow."
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"The next summer, 1794, corn grew dear, and distress began in our land."
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"They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea."
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"A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne."
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"The ranch was raw land when I bought it and, for better or worse, I have designed every aspect of it from the corrals, the arena, to the barn, to the house."
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"By these purchases the Indian title, with moderate reservations, has been extinguished to the whole of the land within the limits of the State of Ohio, and to a part of that in the Michigan Territory and of the State of Indiana."
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"While waiting for a Moses to lead us into the promised land, we have forgotten how to walk."
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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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"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."
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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."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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
"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."
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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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