Land Quotes
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[About the diaspora] Canaan is too small for God's children. The Land of Israel will spread through all lands!
I. L. Peretz
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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.
Ernest Hemingway
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Russia is tough. The history, the land, the people - brutal.
Henry Rollins
Black Flag
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Conquer land like Napoleon, military bomb fest
Lamont Jody Hawkins
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I watched the land for as long as I could, until it disappeared behind its shawl of mist, and until I had it fixed in my mind - unchanged, mysterious and beautiful.
Aimee Friedman
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Yiddish, the language which will ever bear witness to the violence and murder inflicted on us, bear the marks of our expulsions from land to land, the language which absorbed the wails of the fathers, the laments of the generations, the poison and bitterness of history, the language whose precious jewels are the undried, uncongealed Jewish tears.
I. L. Peretz
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The sea is flowing ever, The land retains it never.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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When in the Land of Property think like a propertarian. Dress like one, eat like one, act like one, be one.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Columbus's doom-burdened caravels
J. C. Squire
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As there is not in human observation proper means for measuring the waste of land upon the globe, it is hence inferred, that we cannot estimate the duration of what we see at present, nor calculate the period at which it had begun; so that, with respect to human observation, this world has neither a beginning nor an end.
James Hutton
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Land, in England, is valuable, because we have highly-paid artisans to consume the produce on the spot.
Joseph Hume
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We are already engaged in World War III. It is a war against nature, and it is simply no contest. As a result, the threat from the skies is no longer missiles but ozone-layer depletion and global warming. Leaders who assert they will not concede one square meter of national territory to an invader should think of the hundreds of square kilometers of topsoil eroded from their countries each year.
Norman Myers
