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The name Peace River itself is the monument of a successful effort on the part of the Company to bring about a better understanding between the Crees and the Beavers. -- Ernest Thompson Seton
I'm not big on the Beavers right now, I know David Pollack is big on the Beavers, he's sipping that Beaver juice. -- Desmond Howard
Canada was built on dead beavers. -- Margaret Atwood
They might in the future more than ever before engage in hunting beavers. -- Samuel de Champlain
Reduce the number of lawyers. They are like beavers - they get in the middle of the stream and dam it up. -- Donald Rumsfeld
The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach. -- Lee Iacocca
Save a tree, eat a beaver. -- Zac Hanson
The eagle may soar; beavers build dams. -- Bill Vaughan
Beaver do better work than the Corps of Engineers. -- Mike Todd
Lawyers are like beavers: They get in the mainstream and damn it up. -- John Naisbitt
A beaver is about like the ninjas the suckers only work at night and they're hard to find. -- Si Robertson
Canada, as you know, is a major important nation boasting a sophisticated, cosmopolitan culture that was tragically destroyed last week by beavers. -- Dave Barry
Pines a thousand years old. Every year they must go farther for them: they recede, like beavers and Indians, before the white man. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beavers bred in captivity, inhabiting a concrete pool, will, if given the timber, fatuously go through all the motions of damming an ancestral stream. -- Evelyn Waugh
The beaver told the rabbit as they stared at the Hoover Dam: No, I didn't build it myself, but it's based on an idea of mine -- Charles Hard Townes
I was born in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, in 1917, May the 28th. So you can figure that out; that's a long ways off. Oh, I've been around a long time. -- Papa John Creach
Our major universities are now stuck with an army of pedestrian, toadying careerists, Fifties types who wave around Sixties banners to conceal their record of ruthless, beaver-like tunneling to the top. -- Camille Paglia
To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and gave away prized beaver coats, quilled tobacco bags and buffalo hides. -- Dennis Banks
Body hair. You know when you're swimming as a kid and you want to crawl on your dad? None of us went anywhere near him. 'My god, a beaver! Everyone out of the pool! -- Jon Stewart
There's right and there's wrong. You got to do one or the other. You do the one and you're living. You do the other and you may be walking around, but you're dead as a beaver hat. -- John Wayne
The beaver, which has come to represent Canada as the eagle does the United States and the lion Britain, is a flat-tailed, slow-witted, toothy rodent known to bite off it's own testicles or to stand under its own falling trees. -- June Callwood
I have to tell you that June Cleaver had a job in 'The New Leave It to Beaver.' She did. Sure, she was a council woman. She went to work. She wasn't a sit-at-home grandma. She went out, got a job. -- Barbara Billingsley
Don't think your dreams don't come true, because they do. You'd better be careful what you wish for. And I truly and honestly - one day I am doing the 'Beaver' show and I said, 'This is the show I have always wanted to do.' -- Barbara Billingsley
A child's hope is that your father comes riding in on that white stallion and saves them. You can't make somebody love you the way you want them to love you, it's not a Leave it to Beaver type world. This isn't television. Life's a lot more cruel than that. -- Jake Roberts
The 'stream' we call science always flows forward; sometimes reactionary beavers block its flow, but the stream is never defeated by this; it accumulates, gathers strength; its waters get over the barrage and continue on their course. The advancement of science is the advancement of God, for science is nothing but human intelligence, and human intelligence is the most valuable treasure God has bequeathed us. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Lawyers are like beavers: They get in the mainstream and dam it up. -- John Naisbitt
The raccoons, foxes, beavers, chinchillas, minks, rabbits, and yes, sometimes even dogs and cats that are killed for fur are not very different from your beloved dog or cat. They all have eyes, ears and hearts. They all experience pain when they are physically maimed. They shake with fear when they experience terror. -- Jane Velez-Mitchell
I used to swim with these beavers in a beaver pond when I was 10. I went back when I was 11 and found there were no more beavers. I found that trappers had taken them all, so I became quite angry, and that winter I began to walk the trap lines and free animals from the traps and destroy the traps. -- Paul Watson
Manchester City are defending like beavers -- Chris Kamara
Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others. -- Douglas William Jerrold
Any business or industry that pays equal rewards to its goof-off and its eager beavers sooner or later will find itself with more goof-offs than eager beavers. -- Mick Delaney
He looked around when he heard a window-rattling roar. "Earthquake? Volcano? Nuclear war?" "Beaver," Peter told him. "I don't care if it is Alaska, you don't have beavers big enough to sound like that. -- Nora Roberts
Fishing is a quest for knowledge and wonder as much as a pursuit of fish; it is as much an acquaintance with beavers, dippers, and other fishermen as it is the challenge of catching trout. -- Paul Schullery

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