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Ted Leo Musician
Land

"Someone once said that "The Waste Land" was a scum of poetry floating on a sea of footnotes. That resonated with me, because that's kind of what I was doing lyrically for a while. I was being very referential in a way. I would drop in these little phrases or ideas that were sort of portholes into a whole bigger realm of thought or whatever, that would work within the song, but that you could also poke through into a bigger discussion."

Ideas Song Land
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
Land

"Any relation to the land, the habit of tilling it, or mining it, or even hunting on it, generates the feeling of patriotism. He who keeps shop on it, or he who merely uses it as a support to his desk and ledger, or to his manufactory, values it less."

Land Hunting Shopping
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
Land

"The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture. The continent we inhabit is to be physic andfood for our mind, as well as our body. The land, with its tranquilizing, sanative influences, is to repair the errors of a scholastic and traditional education, and bring us to just relations with men and things."

Men Land Errors
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
Land

"Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions, that around us arerushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests."

Long Land Independence
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
Land

"Without looking, then, to those extraordinary social influences which are now acting in precisely this direction, but only at whatis inevitably doing around us, I think we must regard the land as a commanding and increasing power on the citizen, the sanative and Americanizing influence, which promises to disclose new virtues for ages to come."

Thinking Land Promise
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
Land

"The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture...food for our mind, as well as our body."

Mind Land Culture
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
Land

"The rage for road building is beneficent for America, where vast distance is so main a consideration in our domestic politics andtrade, inasmuch as the great political promise of the invention is to hold the Union staunch, whose days already seem numbered by the mere inconvenience of transporting representatives, judges and officers across such tedious distances of land and water."

America Land Distance
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Ram Dass Spiritual Teacher, Author
Land

"As I've gone into soul and soul-land, and I connect with my soul and my ego, and my life is colored by my soul - people can identify from their ego, which is who they thought they are. The soul, which is who they really are, if they choose that transfer to the soul, then you live in an ocean of love."

People Land Ocean
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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
Land

"A glacier rattles in the cupboard, the desert sighs in the bed, and the crack in the teacup opens a door to the land of the dead. The Maya call this Xibalba (Shibalba), the road to the dimension of the dead."

Doors Land Bed
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Rand Paul Politician
Land

"Why don't we see any questions from the press? Why don't we see anybody from the media saying, 'Mr. President, it's illegal, you started it, you are performing a program that is collecting all of the phone records from all Americans, it's been declared illegal from the second highest court in the land, why don't you stop?'"

Media Land Phones
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Virchand Gandhi Social Reformer
Land

"In Western lands there is a distinct division between the religious and the secular life. There is one rule of conduct for laymen and another for clergymen. This distinction has never found its place in the life of the people of India. There, all of life is included in the word 'religion.'"

People Religious Land
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Virginia Woolf Novelist
Land

"The good diarist writes either for himself alone or for a posterity so distant that it can safely hear every secret and justly weigh every motive. For such an audience there is need neither of affectation nor of restraint. Sincerity is what they ask, detail, and volume; skill with the pen comes in conveniently, but brilliance is not necessary; genius is a hindrance even; and should you know your business and do it manfully, posterity will let you off mixing with great men, reporting famous affairs, or having lain with the first ladies in the land."

Men Writing Land
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Land

"There are plenty of people who believe that Elvis is alive, or that aliens occasionally land here to do highly personal things to people, or that the whole idea of evolution is a conspiracy of godless scientists. Almost all of these people can vote and some of them have got guns."

Believe Land Gun
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Ray Bradbury Author
Land

"Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I was a boy. Lord, there were a lot of lovely books once, before we let them go."

Book Boys Land
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Ray Bradbury Author
Land

"We're going to become the martians when we land there. When we explore and build communities, we become the martians. That's a wonderful destiny for all of us."

Community Land Destiny
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Theodore Roosevelt Politician, Author
Land

"This broken country extends back from the river for many miles and has been called always be Indian, French voyager and American trappers alike, the Bad Lands."

Country Land Rivers
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