Eugene V. Debs Quotes
I do not want you to follow me or anyone else; if you are looking for a Moses to lead you out of this capitalist wilderness, you will stay right where you are. I would not lead you into the promised land if I could, because if I led you in, some one else would lead you out.
Quotes to Explore
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As long as there's land available, single-family homes will be built, and Colorado residents will always go for a single-family over a condo.
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If we can't afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we're in an insurmountable mess.
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I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.
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The settlement of the Land of Israel is the essence of Zionism. Without settlement, we will not fulfill Zionism. It's that simple.
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When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
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The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.
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They're criminals, they brutalized Afghanistan, they killed our people, they destroyed our land.
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Buy land, they're not making it anymore.
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A land may be said to be discovered the first time a European, presumably an Englishman, sets foot on it.
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Green, the color of growth, or surgent life, enwraps the land. New green, still as individual as the plants themselves. Cool green, which will merge as the weeks pass, the Summer comes, into a canopy of shade of busy chlorophyll.
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[On The Waste Land:] Various critics have done me the honor to interpret the poem in terms of criticism of the contemporary world, have considered it, indeed, as an important bit of social criticism. To me it was only the relief of a personal and wholly insignificant grouse against life; it is just a piece of rhythmical grumbling.
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Utopia's quite another land;
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You may fly over a land forever; you may bomb it, atomize it, and wipe it clean of life - but if you desire to defend it, protect it,and keep it for civilization, you must do this on the ground, the way the Roman Legions did - by putting your soldiers in the mud.
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Maybe she was drunk - the woman never could drink. One little sniff of tequila and she was off into some blonde la-la land.
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I can promise you none of these things. No sphere of usefulness; you are not needed there at all. No scope of your talents; only forgiveness for having perverted them. No atmosphere of inquiry, for I will bring you to the land not of questions but of answers, and you shall see the face of God. (pg 40)
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The house was built on the highest part of the narrow tongue of land between the harbor and the open sea. It had lasted through three hurricanes and it was built solid as a ship.
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When the land is cultivated entirely by the spade and no horses are kept, a cow is kept for every three acres of land.
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'Be alive,' the land says, 'listen - this is your time, your world, your pleasure.'
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For now I stand as one upon a rock environed with a wilderness of sea, who marks the waxing tide grow wave by wave, expecting ever when some envious surge will in his brinish bowels swallow him.
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Remember that the Clerget lands very fast, at over forty miles an hour, and with that great engine in the nose the tail was light. Watch it... Lovely.
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I'm not part of the friends-and-family club; I'm not part of the pay-to-play club; I'm not looking to get re-elected. I'm not looking to go to another office and fill my campaign coffers. I don't need any friends in Albany except the people of the state.
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Enjoying it? I don’t reckon he’d come home if Dad didn’t make him. He’s obsessed. Just don’t get him on the subject of his boss. According to Mr. Crouch…as I was saying to Mr. Crouch… Mr. Crouch is of the opinion… Mr. Crouch was telling me… They’ll be announcing their engagement any day now.
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There will always be people who can do it better than you, but that's a good thing! Start to see competition as inspiration — without envy.
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I do not want you to follow me or anyone else; if you are looking for a Moses to lead you out of this capitalist wilderness, you will stay right where you are. I would not lead you into the promised land if I could, because if I led you in, some one else would lead you out.
