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As Our Cities And Suburbs Relentlessly Expand, Those Priceless Open Spaces Needed For Recreation Areas Accessible To Their People Are Swallowed Up-often Forever. Unless We Preserve These Spaces While They Are Still Available, We Will Have None To Preserve.

-Richard M. Nixon

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As Our Cities And Suburbs Relentlessly Expand, Those Priceless Open Spaces Needed For Recreation Areas Accessible To Their People Are Swallowed Up-often Forever. Unless We Preserve These Spaces While They Are Still Available, We Will Have None To Preserve.

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I Like The Job I Have, But If I Had To Live My Life Over Again, I Would Like To Have Ended Up A Sports Writer.

We Must Recognize That The Goal Of A Cleaner Environment Will Not Be Achieved By Rhetoric Or Moral Dedication Alone. It Will Not Be Cheap Or Easy And The Costs Will Have To Be Borne By Each Citizen, Consumer And Taxpayer. How Clean Is Clean Enough Can Only Be Answered In Terms Of How Much We Are Willing To Pay And How Soon We Seek Success... It Is Simplistic To Seek Ecological Perfection At The Cost Of Bankrupting The Very Tax-paying Enterprises Which Must Pay For The Social Advances We Seek.

It Has Been Said That Canada Is Bounded 'on The North By Gold, On The West By The East, On The East By History - And On The South By Friends'.* We Hope That Will Always Be The Case And We Hope It Will Be The Case Not Only With Respect To The United States, Your Immediate Neighbor To The South, But With Respect To All Your Southern Neighbors - And Ours - Who Are Bound By The Great Forces Of Geography And History Which Are Distinctive To The New World.

Geography And History

The Ability To Be Cool, Confident, And Decisive In Crisis Is Not An Inherited Characteristic But Is The Direct Result Of How Well The Individual Has Prepared Himself For The Battle.

The Greatest Honor History Can Bestow Is The Title Of Peacemaker.

Baseball Is Great Because Anything Can Happen Through The Ninth Inning.

Anything Can Happen

You Find Out Who Your True Friends Are Not When You Are On Top Of The World, But When The World Is On Top Of You.

Top Of The World

They Say, "gee, You Look Great." That Means They Thought You Looked Like Hell Before.

The Only Time In The History Of The World That We Have Had Any Extended Periods Of Peace Is When There Has Been A Balance Of Power. It Is When One Nation Becomes Infinitely More Powerful In Relation To Its Potential Competitors That The Danger Of War Arises.

Violence Or The Threat Of Violence [must] Never Be Permitted To Influence The Actions Or Judgments Of The University Community. Once It Does, The Community, Almost By Definition, Ceases To Be A University. It Is For This Reason That From Time Immemorial Expulsion Has Been The Primary Instrument Of University Discipline.

The Ultimate Test Of A Nation's Character Is Not How It Responds To Adversity In War But How It Meets The Challenge Of Peace.

A Politician Knows That His Friends Are Not Always His Allies, And That His Adversaries Are Not Always His Enemies.

The Student Who Invades An Administration Building, Roughs Up A Dean, Rifles The Files And Issues 'non-negotiable Demands' May Have Some Of His Demands Met By A Permissive University Administration. But The Greater His 'victory' The More He Will Have Undermined The Security Of His Own Rights.

Our Souls Speak From Across The Miles, Intertwined, You And I.

Never Let Your Head Hang Down. Never Give Up And Sit Down And Grieve. Find Another Way. And Don't Pray When It Rains If You Don't Pray When The Sun Shines.

There Are Times When An Abortion Is Necessary. I Know That. When You Have A Black And A White.

Any Change Is Resisted Because Bureaucrats Have A Vested Interest In The Chaos In Which They Exist.

Communism Starts With The Proposition That There Are No Universal Truths Or General Truths Of Human Nature.

You Want A Wife Who Is Intelligent, But Not Too Intelligent.

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