"In terms of economical aspects, reinforcing those national parks with sophisticated anti-poaching patrols - these poachers are beefed up like the army. In the case of Cameroon, that's a perfect example of the lack of finance. The government could not provide the national park with more guards. Therefore, they lost the majority of the elephant population. I don't want to see that anywhere else."

-- Veronika Varekova

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“Japan's diplomatic efforts could have had a broader international perspective. Relations with the U.S. are, of course, the cornerstone of Japan's diplomacy, but the U.S. acts on its global strategy. For instance, Washington suddenly got closer to China in the early 1970s as part of its strategy against the Soviet Union.”

Source : "Japan should be a peace broker, former UN refugee chief says". Interview with Hiroyuki Akita, asia.nikkei.com. August 19, 2015.
“She knocked and waited, because when the door was opened from within, it had the potential to lead someplace quite different.”
“Who gets the bird, the hunter or the dog.”

Source : Life magazine, October 25, 1954.
“The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.”
“I quite often feel that my greatest task as a father is to raise children who love what is good, true, and beautiful, and who are therefore aliens in this popular culture.”
“If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them.”
“Romance focuses on emotions and on relationships, both of which are fundamentally important to women.”
“I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving.”

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