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People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic famines are due to too many people living on land that can't sustain them. David Attenborough

The process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there, so you get glimpses of a non-human world, and that is a transporting thing. David Attenborough

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Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you. David Attenborough

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We keep putting on programmes about famine in Ethiopia; that's what's happening. Too many people there. They can't support themselves - and it's not an inhuman thing to say. It's the case. Until humanity manages to sort itself out and get a coordinated view about the planet it's going to get worse and worse. David Attenborough

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I've been bitten by a python. Not a very big one. I was being silly, saying: 'Oh, it's not poisonous...' Then, wallop! But you have fear around animals. David Attenborough

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If I can make programmes when I'm 95, that would be fine. But I would think I'll have had enough by then. David Attenborough

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The most extraordinary thing about trying to piece together the missing links in the evolutionary story is that when you do find a missing link and put it in the story, you suddenly need all these other missing links to connect to the new discovery. The gaps and questions actually increase - it's extraordinary. David Attenborough

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I believe the Abominable Snowman may be real. I think there may be something in that. David Attenborough

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Being an anchor is not just a matter of sitting in front of a camera and looking pretty. David Brinkley

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Washington, D.C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important. David Brinkley

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This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it. David Brinkley

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And there goes Juantorena down the back straight, opening his legs and showing his class. David Coleman

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He is accelerating all the time. That last lap was run in 64 seconds and the one before in 62. David Coleman

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When confronted with a direct threat to American security, Obama has shown he is willing to act unilaterally - in a targeted, get-in-and-get-out fashion, that avoids, at all costs, the kind of messy ground wars and lengthy occupations that have drained America's treasury and spirit for the past decades. David E. Sanger

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When Japan was on the rise, American governors would come to inspect Toyota City and study 'just in time' manufacturing to increase efficiency; when America was at its peak in the late 1990s, the world beat a path to its venture capitalists. David E. Sanger

Back channels themselves are as old as American diplomacy. Thomas Jefferson was an early enthusiast - he often routed around his secretary of state, once sending a secret letter to the American envoy in France, Robert Livingston, that contained a coded message. David E. Sanger

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When Russia's intelligence agencies obtained some of the National Security Agency's secrets about its own cyberweapons, it appeared to do so by manipulating a virus protection program sold by Kaspersky, a Russian firm. David E. Sanger

There are a lot of columnists who get out and opine. David E. Sanger

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Bloggers are not reporters. David E. Sanger

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