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Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
Author:
Frank Wright
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The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.
Author:
Charles Warner
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Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square miles, upon which is spread unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls.
Author:
Jules Verne
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The sea has now changed from it's natural, to river coloured water, the probable consequence of some streams falling into the bay, or into the ocean to the north of it, through the low land.
Author:
George Vancouver
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Buy land, they're not making it anymore.
Author:
Mark Twain
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In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin.
Author:
Desmond Tutu
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The ranch was raw land when I bought it and, for better or worse, I have designed every aspect of it from the corrals, the arena, to the barn, to the house.
Author:
Janine Turner
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This land, this water, this air, this planet - this is our legacy to our young.
Author:
Paul Tsongas
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You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land.
Author:
Billy Sunday
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It is a beneficent incident of the ownership of land that a pioneer who reduces it to use, and helps to lay the foundations of a new State, finds a profit in the increasing value of land as the new State grows up.
Author:
William Sumner
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I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land.
Author:
Jon Stewart
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The next summer, 1794, corn grew dear, and distress began in our land.
Author:
Joanna Southcott
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We feel the value is in the land, not the improvements.
Author:
Mike Simpson
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Holland is a land of intense paradox. It is quite impossible, but it is there.
Author:
M. Sherwood
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Somewhere, over the rainbow, Way up tall, There's a land where they've never heard of cholesterol.
Author:
Allan Sherman
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Here I found those who had set out before me, both by sea and land, except those who have died.
Author:
Junipero Serra
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Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land to install a military base, and he only wanted to plant a Venezuelan flag there?
Author:
Jose Saramago
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It is such a secret place, the land of tears.
Author:
Antoine Saint-Exupery
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I approached Red Square three times, trying to find somewhere to land, before discovering a wide bridge nearby. I landed there and taxied into Red Square.
Author:
Mathias Rust
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Buy land. They ain't making any more of the stuff.
Author:
Will Rogers
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Whenever, then, the usual and ordinary rate of the profits of agricultural stock, and all the outgoings belonging to the cultivation of land, are together equal to the value of the whole produce, there can be no rent.
Author:
David Ricardo
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I stepped on a land mine named Jayson Blair.
Author:
Howell Raines
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Without that sense of security which property gives, the land would still be uncultivated.
Author:
Francois Quesnay
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Down in the south, it's how we find the brownfield sites without taking too much land take to meet the tremendous demand for housing, and that's what I've done.
Author:
John Prescott
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Heinlein never had a best-seller. Even, I think, with Stranger in a Strange Land, I don't think it was actually on the New York Times best seller list.
Author:
Jerry Pournelle
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Pouring concrete on land you don't own is called a calculated risk, if you don't pour you loose millions.
Author:
Eddie Perez
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Apple is in a position they've been in a lot of times before. They're like Moses showing the way to the promised land, but they don't actually go there.
Author:
Tim O'Reilly
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You are the land. The land is you.
Author:
Merlin Olsen
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The holy land was supposed to be spotless, a serious equivalent of Disneyland in which not a single candy wrapper is to stay on the ground for more than a few minutes.
Author:
Marvin Olasky
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Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi.
Author:
Knute Nelson
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The problem is we disagree about the origin. Is this occupied land or not?
Author:
Hassan Nasrallah
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On this land, Muslims, Christians and Jews can coexist together, as they have - as they had for the - for hundreds of years in the framework of a democratic state.
Author:
Hassan Nasrallah
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We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.
Author:
Robert Mugabe
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By these purchases the Indian title, with moderate reservations, has been extinguished to the whole of the land within the limits of the State of Ohio, and to a part of that in the Michigan Territory and of the State of Indiana.
Author:
James Monroe
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A potato can grow quite easily on a very small plot of land. With molecular manufacturing, we'll be able to have distributed manufacturing, which will permit manufacturing at the site using technologies that are low-cost and easily available.
Author:
Ralph Merkle
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Maintaining healthy forests is essential to those who make a living from the land and for those of us who use them for recreational purposes.
Author:
Cathy McMorris
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If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.
Author:
Abraham Maslow
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In Amsterdam the water is the mistress and the land the vassal. throughout the city there are as many canals and drawbridges as bracelets on a Gypsy's bronzed arms.
Author:
Felix Marti-Ibanez
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Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading species.
Author:
Alfred Marshall
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We should embrace our immigrant roots and recognize that newcomers to our land are not part of the problem, they are part of the solution.
Author:
Roger Mahony
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Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another's struggles.
Author:
Lucretius
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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.
Author:
Fran Lebowitz
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When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.
Author:
David Lawrence
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I most often land up taking up the roles that I most detest.
Author:
Christine Lahti
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I will burn your city, your land, your self.
Author:
Hulagu Khan
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There are but few naval powers, but there are many land powers.
Author:
Frank Kellogg
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No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
Author:
Helen Keller
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While waiting for a Moses to lead us into the promised land, we have forgotten how to walk.
Author:
Wendell Johnson
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If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey?
Author:
Oliver John
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Louisiana loses 30 miles a year off our coast. We lost 100 miles last year off our coast thanks to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. We have lost a size of land equivalent to the entire state of Rhode Island.
Author:
Bobby Jindal
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Fences would be a hindrance to terrorists should they decide to come across a land border between the U.S. and Mexico and to California.
Author:
Duncan Hunter
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Buckwheat may be planted later than any similar crop, and often does well on old meadows or waste land that can be broken after the more exacting crops are planted.
Author:
David Houston
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The guys today are just too strong and back then they would take many hard punches to land one.
Author:
Larry Holmes
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Without the shepherd's dog, the whole of the open mountainous land in Scotland would not be worth a sixpence.
Author:
James Hogg
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It is true that we aspire to our ancient land. But what we want in that ancient land is a new blossoming of the Jewish spirit.
Author:
Theodor Herzl
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Atreyu comes from a land called Fantasia. It's an imaginary land.
Author:
Noah Hathaway
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All I had to do was go out and perform. One of the hardest things was doing those back flips, where you had to jump up and land on the top rope. It's precision movement.
Author:
Owen Hart
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This land is your land, this land is my land, From California to the New York Island. From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and me.
Author:
Woody Guthrie
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If you know how many acres you have sown of each kind of corn, inquire how much the acre the soil of that land takes for sowing, and count the number of quarters of seed, and you shall know the return of seed, and what ought to be over.
Author:
Robert Grosseteste
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This morning's scene is good and fine, Long rain has not harmed the land.
Author:
Du Fu
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When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.
Author:
Samuel Foote
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In the land of the skunks he who has half a nose is king.
Author:
Chris Farley
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Our settlement of land is without regard to the best use of land.
Author:
Arthur Erickson
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The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.
Author:
Henry Ellis
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Eurasia ended up with the most domesticated animal species in part because it's the world's largest land mass and offered the most wild species to begin with.
Author:
Jared Diamond
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The 6th of August in the morning we saw an opening in the land and we ran into it, and anchored in 7 and a half fathom water, 2 miles from the shore, clean sand.
Author:
William Dampier
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The lowest and most level land areas show us, especially when we dig there to very great depths, nothing but horizontal layers of material more or less varied, which almost all contain innumerable products of the sea.
Author:
George Cuvier
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Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise.
Author:
Herbert Croly
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No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea. And no dolphin who inhabits one of those aquariums or one of those marine lands can be considered normal.
Author:
Jacques Cousteau
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The city is as large as Seville or Cordova; its streets, I speak of the principal ones, are very wide and straight; some of these, and all the inferior ones, are half land and half water, and are navigated by canoes.
Author:
Hernando Cortes
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Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the neighborhood.
Author:
Christopher Columbus
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They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it.
Author:
Red Cloud
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A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne.
Author:
Georges Clemenceau
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When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.
Author:
Kalpana Chawla
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Worm or beetle - drought or tempest - on a farmer's land may fall, Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a mortgage beats 'em all.
Author:
Will Carleton
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And for myself, I think for the present He is calling me to another land; but how long shall be my abode, or what employment He has for me there, I know not, for I cannot think He is taking me there to live and lurk only.
Author:
Donald Cargill
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You can never reach the promised land. You can march towards it.
Author:
James Callaghan
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They say that it were great reproof to the king to take again what he has given, so that they will not suffer him to have his own good, nor land, nor forfeiture, nor any other good but they ask it from him, or else they take bribes of others to get it for him.
Author:
Jack Cade
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And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay.
Author:
George Cable
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Prayer for many is like a foreign land. When we go there, we go as tourists. Like most tourists, we feel uncomfortable and out of place. Like most tourists, we therefore move on before too long and go somewhere else.
Author:
Robert Brown
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Some otherwise sane scientists have seriously proposed that we tuck this deadly garbage under the edges of drifting continents but how can they be sure the moving land masses will climb over the waste and not just push it forward?
Author:
David Brower
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To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
Author:
W. Bois
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I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
Author:
Alan Bennett
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And finally Winter, with its bitin', whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow.
Author:
Roy Bean
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It's hard not to be excited when you're going to find a way to land on the moon.
Author:
Alan Bean
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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.
Author:
Gary Bauer
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There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude.
Author:
Robert Ballard
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Land bridges were everywhere during the extinction, many species were spreading, and there were many diseases.
Author:
Robert Bakker
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I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll from the sea. I am entranced by the mystery of them, and absorbed by their variety and kinds. Everywhere they are visible yet everywhere occult.
Author:
Liberty Bailey
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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
Author:
Francis Bacon
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Protecting all this land, working with the President to establish all these monuments, to, you know... I think the President has a land protection record that's second to no one in this century, maybe Teddy Roosevelt.
Author:
Bruce Babbitt
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In a land of immigrants, one was not an alien but simply the latest arrival.
Author:
Rudolf Arnheim
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But the issue has to do with land, which is our land.
Author:
Bashar al-Assad
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Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged.
Author:
Neil Abercrombie
