Logging is an industry driven solely by greed. It prospers with government support and subsidies, and it is accelerating its rate of destruction, so that Tasmania is now the largest hardwood chip exporter in the world.

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BRIAN FLANAGAN It's a little bit of a gamble starting this early, but from what we've heard everyone is so excited....
BRIAN FLANAGAN It was probably a good thing for me to see that we weren't executing from bench to floor.
DON FLANAGAN We have to be able to play the full game. We have to get over being a one-half team. I was really di...
DON FLANAGAN The good thing about being a basketball team is that you play a lot of games. We have a game against...
DON FLANAGAN That was a tough game for us.
DON FLANAGAN Nobody that I talked to wanted to be part of this program.
DON FLANAGAN They'll go right in there and run something completely different. But they're going to get over that...
DON FLANAGAN That was a great defensive effort, because Wyoming is a very good team. They set so many screens and...
DON FLANAGAN This was a tough game for us. I saw so many things I didn't like. They weren't carrying out some thi...
DON FLANAGAN They believed they were going to be successful and for some reason we didn't believe we were going t...
DON FLANAGAN They are a very well-coached team with a lot of movement on offense. They drive and dish a lot. They...
DON FLANAGAN I've taken him to Chicago for the Cubs.
DENNIS FLANAGAN She's got a really soft touch and is very accurate at getting the ball around the rim, so she gets s...
DON FLANAGAN I think there is going to be a strong sentiment to run from this.
MIKE FLANAGAN In an age of specialization people are proud to be able to do one thing well, but if that is all the...
DENNIS FLANAGAN What we opposed was that federal aid should go to these virtual universities that disguise themselve...
SARAH FLANAGAN I re-traced your footsteps to that miserable little Tibetan monastery. It was hard to get the monks ...
ANNE FLANAGAN It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that a handful of insurance companies with a strangleh...
JERRY FLANAGAN Remember no one expects you to be Halt. He's a legend, after all. Haven't you heard? He's eight feet...
JOHN FLANAGAN These girls have played a lot of basketball, so they knew they could come back and win.
GLEN FLANAGAN It was enough to get it done tonight. I wish we had played better, but we're going (to state) and th...
GLEN FLANAGAN Our pressure got to them in the second quarter.
GLEN FLANAGAN We've been waiting to play like this for a long time. Good time to do it.
GLEN FLANAGAN We played basketball like it is supposed to be played. We moved the ball, we played good defense, we...
GLEN FLANAGAN We'd keep pulling away and they'd reel us back in.
GLEN FLANAGAN It was a physical game. The refs let a lot go, the teams were banging on each other.
GLEN FLANAGAN Someone put a lid on the bucket. We missed all 17 of our 3-pointers. We were 17-of-74 from the field...
GLEN FLANAGAN We were really flat and had no energy in the first quarter. They (the Hawks) jumped on us hard and t...
GLEN FLANAGAN We were balanced; it was a fun game. It was a packed house. Any time we tried to pull away, they wou...
GLEN FLANAGAN That's for another time,
FIONNULA FLANAGAN We had a wild night out with them in Wilmington (North Carolina, where filming took place).
FIONNULA FLANAGAN There are plenty of roles for older women. They just don't happen to be the roles that normally carr...
FIONNULA FLANAGAN Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.
FIONNULA FLANAGAN After more than 30 years ... sometimes the only thing that you have is the remaining teeth or very f...
GARY FLANAGAN You're an apprentice, you're not ready to think yet.
-Ranger's Apprentice
JOHN FLANAGAN What the devil is Chocho?' Will whispered.
Horace's grin broadened. 'You are. It's what the men...
JOHN FLANAGAN The two girls disappeared into the stern cabin once more. Will watched them go, then asked Halt, 'An...
JOHN FLANAGAN Gundar isn't so much a ship's captain as a reformed pirate and a heathen." [Evanlyn] looked apologet...
JOHN FLANAGAN

Logging is an industry driven solely by greed. It prospers with government support and subsidies, and it is accelerating its rate of destruction, so that Tasmania is now the largest hardwood chip exporter in the world.

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Richard Flanagan

Logging is an industry driven solely by greed. It prospers with government support and subsidies, and it is accelerating its rate of destruction, so that Tasmania is now the largest hardwood chip exporter in the world.

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