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Joan Didion Author, Essayist
Land

"The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past ... Here is the last stop for all those who come from somewhere else, for all those who drifted away from the cold and the past and the old ways."

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Martin Luther King, Jr. Civil Rights Leader
Land

"In every age and every generation, men have envisioned a promised land. Some may have envisioned it with the wrong ideology, with the wrong philosophical presupposition. But men in every generation thought in terms of some promised land."

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Martin Luther Theologian
Land

"If God had not permitted the people of Jerusalem to be torn asunder and driven them from the land, but had let them keep it after before, no one could convince them that they are not God`s chosen people."

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Michel de Montaigne Philosopher, Writer
Land

"The land of marriage has this peculiarity: that strangers are desirous of inhabiting it, while its natural inhabitants would willingly be banished from thence."

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Muhammad Ali Boxer, Activist
Land

"People sold everything - their cars, their land for miles, to come in and see me beat. I went to the bank laughing every time."

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Kirsten Miller Author, Educator
Land

"Love and faith go hand in hand. You can't have one without the other. And as we all know, taking the leap ain't always safe. Sometimes you judge poorly, and you land right on your face. But unless you make the jump, you'll never know what's on the other side. You just gotta find the guts to do it."

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Honore de Balzac Novelist
Land

"In all lands, sailors form a race apart. They profess a congenital contempt for landlubbers. As for the tradesman, he understands nothing of sailors nor cares a fig about them. He is content to rob them if he can."

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Lord Byron Poet, Novelist
Land

"Yet still there whispers the small voice within, Heard through Gain's silence, and o'er Glory's din; Whatever creed be taught or land be trod, Man's conscience is the oracle of God."

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Kurt Vonnegut Novelist, Satirist
Land

"I'm so sorry - we had this cottage up in Lake Maxinkuckee, in Culver. I've thought so often of the poor Pottawattomies we took this land away from. They must have loved it so."

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Huey Lewis Musician
Land

"In '87 - four years after 'Sports' was released - my family and I began vacationing in Montana. I soon bought my first piece of land in Ravalli County, in the western part of the state."

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Louis Bacon Businessman
Land

"As a nation, we owe a great deal to the National Audubon Society, one of our most distinguished and important environmental organizations, and all those who work to protect America's open land and waterways."

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Louis Bacon Businessman
Land

"I am proud to place Tercio Red River into a conservation easement forever protecting this spectacular landscape with Colorado Open Lands."

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