"I think nobody owns the land until their dead are in it."
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"We're working to lower the cost of spaceflight so that many people can afford to go and so that we humans can better continue exploring the solar system. Accomplishing this mission will take time, and we're working on it methodically."
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"Miserable mortals who like leaves at one moment flame with life eating the produce of the land and at another moment weakly perish."
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"We've been in the mountain of war. We've been in the mountain of violence. We've been in the mountain of hatred long enough. It is necessary to move on now, but only by moving out of this mountain can we move to the promised land of justice and brotherhood and the Kingdom of God. It all boils down to the fact that we must never allow ourselves to become satisfied with unattained goals. We must always maintain a kind of divine discontent."
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"Land of lost gods and godlike men."
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"I can't but say it is an awkward sight To see one's native land receding through The growing waters; it unmans one quite, Especially when life is rather new."
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"I will not resolve a land dispute if civil groups or politicians are involved in the land disputes."
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"When a profit-seeking company proposes to take citizens' private land away for its own gain, people should stand up for their rights."
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"Traditionally poetry is written in lines. But the prose poem is the kind of poem that isn't written in lines. It is lyrical prose that uses the tricks of poetry, such as dense imagery. This is a big topic of debate in poetry land. There's no perfect definition."
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"If the clan did not exact punishment for an offense against the great goddess, her wrath was loosed on all the land and not just on the offender. As the elders said, if one finger brought oil it soiled all the others."
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"America remained a land of promise for lovers of freedom. Even Byron, at a moment when he was disgusted with Napoleon for not committing suicide, wrote an eloquent stanza in praise of Washington."
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"The Bible says that as long as we are here on earth, we are strangers in a foreign land. There are enemies to be conquered before we return home. This world is not our home; our citizenship is in heaven."
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"I call upon both Republicans and Democrats to work with us to have a national ID card that is free and accessible. President Lyndon Johnson and Martin Luther King recognized was the greatest step for society was that short step into the voting booth. If we are to be true to their courage and conviction, we must make that short step as easy as possible. Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of every eligible voter."
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"Land [is] the only thing God ain't making no more of."
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"Well I come from a land, from a far away place, where the caravan camels roam. They will cut of your ear if they don't like your face, it's babaric, but hey, it's home."
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"To an American, land is solidity, goodness, and hope. American history is about land."
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"I read Mailer's Ancient Evenings with great interest because I was interested in . . . the seven souls structure, which was very helpful to me in Western Lands. And also in Place of Dead Roads. So that's Mailer."
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"In love the heavens themselves do guide the state; Money buys lands, and wives are sold by fate."
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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."
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"I fell away from you, my God, and I went astray, too far astray from you, the support of my youth, and I became to myself a land of want."
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