Abraham Lincoln Quotes, Work Quotes, Land Quotes

The prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land, for himself; then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him. This, say its advocates, is free labor-the just and generous, and prosperous system, which opens the way for all-gives hope to all, and energy, and progress, and improvement of condition to all.

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Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.

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Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Men Quotes , Land Quotes

Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Land Quotes , Foundation Quotes

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

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Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Death Quotes , Land Quotes

Germany has solemnly recognized and guaranteed France her frontiers as determined after the Saar plebiscite... We thereby finally renounced all claims to Alsace-Lorraine, a land for which we have fought two great wars.

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Tags : Adolf Hitler Quotes , War Quotes , Land Quotes

There is a place. Like no place on Earth. A land full of wonder, mystery, and danger! Some say to survive it: You need to be as mad as a hatter. Which luckily I am.

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Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Land Quotes , Mad Quotes

It's hard not to be excited when you're going to find a way to land on the moon.

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Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Fear Quotes , Land Quotes

These days there seems to be nowhere left to explore, at least on the land area of the Earth. Victims of their very success, the explorers now pretty much stay home.

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Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Home Quotes , Land Quotes

History casts its shadow far into the land of song.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Song Quotes , Land Quotes

A literal interpretation of the Gita lands one in a sea of contradictions.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Sea Quotes , Land Quotes

One generation passeth away and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever.

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Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit; All with me's meet that I can fashion fit.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Fashion Quotes , Land Quotes

Of all the questions which can come before this nation, short of the actual preservation of its existence in a great war, there is none which compares in importance with the great central task of leaving this land even a better land for our descendants than it is for us.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , War Quotes , Land Quotes

What do you plan to do in the land of the sleepers? You have been floating in a sea of solitude, and the sea has borne you up. At long last, are you ready for dry land? Are you ready to drag yourself ashore?

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Sea Quotes , Land Quotes

I will remark in the way of general information, that in California, that land of felicitous nomenclature, the literary name of this sort of stuff is "hogwash"

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Land Quotes , Names Quotes

All the territorial possessions of all the political establishments in the earth--including America, of course-- consist of pilferings from other people's wash. No tribe, howsoever insignificant, and no nation, howsoever mighty occupies a foot of land that was not stolen.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Land Quotes , Feet Quotes

How strange! You seek guidance, yet you do not tread its path, surely a boat does not sail on land.

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Tags : Al-Shafi‘i Quotes , Islamic Quotes , Land Quotes

That's where peace begins - not just in the plans of leaders, but in the hearts of people. Not just in some carefully designed process, but in the daily connections - that sense of empathy that takes place among those who live together in this land and in this sacred city of Jerusalem.

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Heart Quotes , Land Quotes

Love to throw yourself on the earth and kiss it. Kiss the earth and love it with an unceasing, consuming love.

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Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Kissing Quotes , Land Quotes