"I have discovered in a lifetime of traveling in primitive regions, a lifetime of seeing people living in the wilderness and using it, that there is a hard core of wilderness need in everyone, a core that makes its spiritual values a basic human necessity. There is no hiding it....Unless we can preserve places where the endless spiritual needs of man can be fulfilled and nourished, we will destroy our culture and ourselves."

-- Sigurd F. Olson

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“Often, I think, displaced people imagine themselves leading double lives. So a portion of my identity has always been privately siphoned into what would have been if I had stayed in Wisconsin.”
“All I'm telling you to do is to be smart about it. Know that if this man isn't looking for a serious relationship, you're not going to change his mind just because you two are going on dates and being intimate. You could be the most perfect woman on the Lord's green earth-you're capable of interesting conversation, you cook a mean breakfast, you hand out backrubs like sandwiches, you're independent (which means, to him, that you're not going to be in his pockets)-but if he's not ready for a serious relationship, he going to treat you like sports fish.”
“If we are kind and considerate, people will want to be around us, and we benefit from enduring circles of attention and care.”

Source : P. M. Forni (2010). “Choosing Civility: The Twenty-five Rules of Considerate Conduct”, p.30, Macmillan
“If you don't like affirmative action, what is your plan to guarantee a level playing field of opportunity?”
“My fans and people who know of my character want to see me become more successful.”

Source : "Tila Tequila Gives Love a Shot, MTV-Style". Interview with Joseph Hudak, www.tvguide.com. November 27, 2007.
“That's what unions do. They can get money, they can get support, they can get manpower.”

Source : "Live From..." with Miles O'Brien, www.cnn.com. December 10, 2003.
“The World Health Organisation has a lot of its medical experts sitting in Geneva while hospitals in Africa have no drugs and desperate patients are forced to seek medication on the black market.”

Source : "Revisit Pauline Hanson's infamous maiden speech". www.sbs.com.au. July 19, 2016.
“All my economic ideas as developed over twenty-five years can be summed up in the words: agricultural-industrial federation. All my political ideas boil down to a similar formula: political federation or decentralization.”

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