Before you rip off three feet of toilet paper, consider that each year 500,000 acres of virgin boreal forest in northern Alberta and Ontario are being clear-cut to make the stuff. These forests are home to some 500 First Nation communities, as well as caribou and bears, moose and wolves, and, in the summertime, billions of songbirds.
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impossible. PAUL DICKSON Algren's Precepts: Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never
play cards with a man named Doc. And... PAUL DICKSON Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum
tolerable well being. PAUL DICKSON Ade's Law: Anybody can win--unless there happens to be a second
entry. PAUL DICKSON Acting, First Rule of: Whatever happens, look as if you intended
it to happen. PAUL DICKSON Acheson's Rule of Bureaucracy: A memorandum is written not to
inform the reader but to protect the ... PAUL DICKSON Accuracy, Rule of, Corollary: Provided, of course, that you know
there is a problem. PAUL DICKSON A clean tie attracts the soup of the day. PAUL DICKSON Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a
mistake when you make it again. PAUL DICKSON About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the
ends. PAUL DICKSON Acton's Law: Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts
absolutely. PAUL DICKSON Accuracy, Rule of: When working toward the solution of a
problem, it always helps if you know the ... PAUL DICKSON Rowe's Rule: the odds are five to six that the light at the end
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first word that stuck in his head. MICHAEL BLAKE A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until
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entitled to know. (2) If you don't like ... PAUL DICKSON A real person has two reasons for doing anything . . . a good
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ALEX PENELAS to assist the federal government in any way, shape or form to inappropriately repatriate Elian Gonza... ALEX PENELAS Across the globe, Andrew Cunanan is ... a marked man. The world is on notice, ALEX PENELAS An impenetrable type of industry can in fact be penetrated, if you have good legal arguments. I thin... ALEX PENELAS We all want to make it very clear this afternoon that if the Justice Department's handling of this m... ALEX PENELAS We all believe that the particular actions of the Coast Guard at that time were unnecessary and unwa... ALEX PENELAS However, I would like to take this opportunity to stress that our strategy remains unchanged - to cr... ALEX PARSONS I never thought it would work (this way) with me. I just wanted the opportunity to play. This heavil... ALEX PARSONS After the Nike camp, I got offered by Kentucky and then Utah and Arizona came by (during spring prac... ALEX PARSONS That Nike camp, that's where everybody looks at you. They sell you to everybody out there. You do al... ALEX PARSONS I could tell he was following me around. But it was definitely fun. ALEX PARSONS When he hit me that first time it made me realize what I was actually out there doing. ALEX PADILLA He was a man of the people, a true populist. ALEX PADILLA But we haven't come up with any measures to deal with the matter. The wage hike is impractical becau... ALEX PADILLA We are aware that how critical the problem is, ALEX PADILLA We want great schools for our kids, safe neighborhoods and the very best in emergency services, ... ... ALEX PADILLA The governor personally came here, assigned a dozen staff members to work the hall like it was a pol... ALEX PADILLA If I was the governor, I wouldn't be jumping up and down for joy here, ALEX PADILLA [But Alex Padilla, incoming league president and prominent Los Angeles Democrat, said] the governor ... ALEX PADILLA We will welcome any manufacturer of the vaccine to manufacture here, ALEX PADILLA This will not be known as the Times Square of the West, ... Times Square will be known as the l.a. l... ALEX PADILLA I don't look at history. I enjoy my hockey career here in Washington. ... I'm glad I score lots of g... ALEX OVECHKIN There was two second left in game. I don't know why he do it. He was disappointed we beat Toronto, I... ALEX OVECHKIN We lost [in the] second period. We play very well in first period but we can't score. First period, ... ALEX OVECHKIN