J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

Tall ships and tall kings Three times three, What brought they from the foundered land Over the flowing sea? Seven stars and seven stones And one white tree.

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Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.
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Anglo-Saxon kings often used to favour their sister's son to their own - for at least you could guarantee there was your own blood in your sister's son!
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All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.
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In general in New York, we all eat like kings. Insane quality, mind-blowing variety, at all price ranges.
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The Land of Israel goes with the Torah of Israel under the sovereignty of the State of Israel.
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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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To put it rather bluntly, I am not the type who wants to go back to the land; I am the type who wants to go back to the hotel.
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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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There's a lot of bands that get to a certain level, and it just stops. They scrap it. Compare this to, say, The Rolling Stones or The Who, where they just continued on forever and are still playing, or they quit after 20 years.
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When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
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If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known.
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The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.
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I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're stones that don't matter. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good.
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Buy land, they're not making it anymore.
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I appreciate that something I've done has found a safe place to land.
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I am much more my own man than I was when I was with the Stones.
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Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
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Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships.
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Attaining consciousness is connected with the gradual liberation from mechanicalness, for man is fully and completely under mechanical laws.
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Remember that I will be here', he said resolutely. 'For an eternity (...). I would wait for you for an eternity.
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People are very harsh critics of animated humans.
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Tall ships and tall kings Three times three, What brought they from the foundered land Over the flowing sea? Seven stars and seven stones And one white tree.