Arthur Ruppin Quotes
Palestinian dispossession is inevitable because land is the vital condition for our settlement in Palestine. But since there is hardly any land which is worth cultivating that is not already being cultivated, it is found that whatever we purchase land and settle it, by necessity its present cultivators are turned away . . . In the future it will be much more difficult to purchase land, as sparsely populated land hardly exists. What remains is densely Palestinian Arab populated land.
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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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All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.
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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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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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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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It is very true that D.C. often operates in the land of caricature.
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They're criminals, they brutalized Afghanistan, they killed our people, they destroyed our land.
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The ethnic differences among Filipinos are very real. The paucity of arable land, for instance, explains the industry of the Ilokanos and the Cebuanos.
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If I told you about a land of love, friend, would you follow me and come?
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He seemed to be waiting for a miracle to save him from the depths his life had reached and take him to a land of dreams.
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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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The South is the land of the sustained sibilant. Everywhere, for the appreciative visitor, the letter "s" insinuates itself in the scene: in the sound of sea and sand, in the singing shell, in the heat of sun and sky, in the sultriness of the gentle hours, in the siesta, in the stir of birds and insects.
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The Holy Land... What an experience. I will never forget this day.
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Well, it's a problem in general with the American military. If you are the biggest and the strongest military power in the world, you have this natural reluctance to learn the quirky ways of the natives in faraway lands.
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Florida was invented for Addison Mizner's little brother.
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A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.
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I insist on keeping a level head. I've maintained the same exact home life that I’ve had for 20 years. All I see is more people looking at me than before. But, you know, who cares? You just can't obsess yourself with this fame stuff.
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Palestinian dispossession is inevitable because land is the vital condition for our settlement in Palestine. But since there is hardly any land which is worth cultivating that is not already being cultivated, it is found that whatever we purchase land and settle it, by necessity its present cultivators are turned away . . . In the future it will be much more difficult to purchase land, as sparsely populated land hardly exists. What remains is densely Palestinian Arab populated land.
