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Gordon Campbell Politician
Land

"The B.C. spirit bear symbolizes the essence of the spirit of British Columbia. It is a powerful presence and a thing of wonder that lives in a magical land of beauty, grace and unbridled potential."

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Leonard Cohen Singer-Songwriter
Land

"Israel, and you who call yourself Israel, the Church that calls itself Israel, and the revolt that calls itself Israel, and every nation chosen to be a nation - none of these lands is yours, all of you are thieves of holiness, all of you at war with Mercy."

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James Joyce Novelist, Poet
Land

"Evening had fallen. A rim of the young moon cleft the pale waste of sky line, the rim of a silver hoop embedded in grey sand: and the tide was flowing in fast to the land with a low whisper of her waves, islanding a few last figures in distant pools."

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Henry Ford Industrialist
Land

"No unemployment insurance can be compared to an alliance between a man and a plot of land."

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John Locke Philosopher, Physician
Land

"As much land as a man tills, plants, improves, cultivated, and can use the product of, so much is his property. He by his labour does, as it were, enclose it from the common."

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Julia Child Chef, Author, Television Personality
Land

"My father was in real estate, banking, and land management. As family life, it was very conventional, happy, and comfortable. We weren't wealthy, but we were well-off."

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Kim Wilde Singer, Songwriter
Land

"They're still building and testing / But what can we do / Condemning the seas and the land and the trees to a tomb"

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Michel Foucault Philosopher, Social Theorist
Land

"Confined on the ship, from which there is no escape, the madman is delivered to the river with its thousand arms, the sea with its thousand roads, to that great uncertainty external to everything. He is a prisoner in the midst of what is the freest, the openest of routes: bound fast at the infinite crossroads. He is the Passenger par excellence: that is, the prisoner of the passage. And the land he will come to is unknown—as is, once he disembarks, the land from which he comes. He has his truth and his homeland only in that fruitless expanse between two countries that cannot belong to him."

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Michael Grant Author
Land

"In the land of the blind the one eyed man is king. In the darkness the man with a candle is an easy target."

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D. H. Lawrence Novelist, Poet
Land

"Naught is possessed, neither gold, nor land nor love, nor life, nor peace, nor even sorrow nor death, nor yet salvation. Say of nothing: It is mine. Say only: It is with me."

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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
Land

"I can promise you none of these things. No sphere of usefulness; you are not needed there at all. No scope of your talents; only forgiveness for having perverted them. No atmosphere of inquiry, for I will bring you to the land not of questions but of answers, and you shall see the face of God. (pg 40)"

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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
Land

"Be sure it is not for nothing that the Landlord has knit our hearts so closely to time and place – to one friend rather than another and one shire more that all the land."

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Ban Ki-moon Diplomat
Land

"To achieve a Green Revolution, African farmers, must have access to land and security of tenure. They also need access to markets, technology and improved infrastructure."

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