"Land is something one should never sell. It is the only thing left when all else is gone"
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"Until a few months ago we had a code of honor, and even the worst ruffians behaved with decency. You could leave your gold in a tent with no guard and no one would touch it, but now all that has changed. The law of the jungle rules, the only ideology is greed. Don't let yourself be parted from your weapons, and always travel in pairs or groups, because this is a land of thieves."
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"You get a sense of reference there. You feel part of something that's got order and balance and harmony to it. All the distraction and noise, all the confusion of misplaced, misdirected energy just don't happen there."
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"As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion."
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"Native Americans were driven off their land. Lincoln even took part in the Black Hawk campaign against the Native Americans in Illinois. While they were being exterminated and driven off their land, Whites were collecting assets."
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"I'd made it back to the land of the living. No matter how boring or mediocre a world it might be, this was it."
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"Autumn resumes the land, ruffles the woods with smoky wings, entangles them."
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"Whatever discoveries we may have made in the regions of self-love, there still remain many unknown lands."
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"Brigham Young lived to become immortal in history as an American Moses by leading his people through the wilderness into an unpromised land."
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"Signs are small measurable things, but interpretations are illimitable, and in girls of sweet, ardent nature, every sign is apt to conjure up wonder, hope, belief, vast as a sky, and colored by a thimbleful of matter in the shape of knowledge....wrong reasoning sometimes lands poor mortals in right conclusions: starting a long way off the true point, and proceeding by loops and zigzags, we now and then arrive just where we ought to be. Just because Miss Brooke was hasty in her trust, it is not therefore clear that Mr. Casaubon was unworthy of it."
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"The Jews are among the aristocracy of every land; if a literature is called rich in the possession of a few classic tragedies, what shall we say to a national tragedy lasting for fifteen hundred years, in which the poets and the actors were also the heroes."
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"health in all lands is among the indispensable guarantees of human progress."
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"Be not dismayed; in the future lies the Promised Land."
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"You may be on land, yet not in a garden."
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"Being on sea saile, being on land settle. [Being on sea, sail; being on land, settle.]"
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"For washing his hands, none sels his lands."
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"Good land, evill way."
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"He that hath lands hath quarrells."
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"Today, nobody sees, or wishes to see, that in our time the enslavement of the majority of men is based on money taxes, levied on land and otherwise, which are collected by government from the subjects."
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"Prayer is the breath of your life which gives you the freedom to go and stay where you wish and to find the many signs which point out the way to a new land."
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