NOTABLE QUOTES OF THE WEEK

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This notion that you can...just dump something or drop something in the lake is not something I ever saw or thought I’d ever see.” Jon Groveman of the Vermont Natural Resources Council, on plans to sink the now-retired ferry “Adirondack” in Lake Champlain

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What’s that great line in ‘Animal Farm’? All pigs are equal, but some pigs are more equal than others. It won’t surprise me if some pigs are more equal than others.”

U.S. Rep. Jim Himes, D-conn., on the return of earmarks in Congress

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We welcome you back to planet Earth, and thanks for flying Spacex. For those of you enrolled in our frequent flyer program, you have earned 68 million miles on this voyage.” Michael Heiman, a Spacex mission control official, to astronauts who returned from space Sunday

Quote Quiz: What is the name and residence of what the Nonhuman Rights Project describes as: “the first elephant in the world to be granted a hearing to determine the lawfulness of her imprisonment.”