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"He (Cato) used to say that in all his life he never repented but of three things. The first was that he had trusted a woman with a secret; the second that he had gone by sea when he might have gone by land; and the third, that had passed one day without having a will by him."
"The world is too little aware of the waste of life, limb and land which anti-personnel landmines are causing among some of the poorest people on earth."
"Words are heavy in Turkey, and every writer, every poet and every journalist knows that, because of a word, because of a sentence, because of a tweet or even a retweet, you can be sued, you can be demonized by the media and you can even land in prison."
"In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man will probably end up dating the best looking blind chick."
"I was watching Batman, the TV show, on TV Land, on the cable. And Robin said to Batman, Golly, Batman! Why is the Joker so evil!? And Batman said, Careful, Robin. The criminal mind sees the world through a prism the solid citizen dare not peer through. Batman has a more nuanced worldview than the president."
"There is scarce a king in a hundred who would not, if he could, follow the example of Pharoah - get first all the people's money, then all their lands, and then make them and their children servants forever."
"To a wise man, the whole earth is open; for the native land of a good soul is the whole earth."
"Anaxagoras said to a man who was grieving because he was dying in a foreign land, "The descent to Hades is the same from every place."
"The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it."
"My parents screened 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory' for my 6th birthday, and I became fascinated by the idea of living in a candy land with chocolate rivers and lollipop trees."
"Agriculture is the greatest and fundamentally the most important of our industries. The cities are but the branches of the tree of national life, the roots of which go deeply into the land. We all flourish or decline with the farmer."
"Knaves starve not in the land of fools."
"In one bold stroke, forgiveness obliterates the past and permits us to enter the land of new beginnings."
"Couldn't help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land where justice is a game."
"Well, it's hard to stumble And land in some muddy lagoon When it's nine below zero And three o'clock in the afternoon."
"All of the younger actors keep coming up to me and asking me where all of the land mines are because they know I've stepped on them all."
"Perhaps some deep-rooted atavism urges the wanderer back to lands which his ancestors left in the dim beginnings of history. Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs. Here is the home he sought, and he will settle amid scenes that he has never seen before, among men he has never known, as though they were familiar to him from his birth. Here at last he finds rest."
"Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people."
"I had this thought a while ago, "My darling cannot understand What I have done, or what would do In this blind bitter land." And I grew weary of the sun"
"I was thinking about New Mexico, and I rounded the corner in New York, and there was a New Mexico license plate: "New Mexico, land of enchantment.""
