Quotes with acres

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  • R. F. Hallock A man's possessions are just as large as his own soul. If this title-deeds cover more, the surplus acres own him, not he the acres.
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  • Alexander Pope Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Thomas Paine It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by ;degrees, the consequences will be the same.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Al Sharpton It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That's where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts. We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn't get the mule. So we decided we'd ride this donkey as far as it would take us.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • Betty Buckley It's just a little ranch. Thirty-five acres. In Texas, if it's not a thousand acres, it's considered a ranchette.
    Betty Buckley
    American actress and singer (1947 - )
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  • Bruce Babbitt We've set aside tens of millions of acres of those northwestern forests for perpetuity. The unemployment rate has gone not up, but down. The economy has gone up.
    Bruce Babbitt
    American attorney and politician (1938 - )
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  • Bonnie Jo Campbell When I was little, we lived on 8 acres and my mom had a horse. But when I was 7, my mom kicked my dad out, and then in order to feed us five kids, she got critters cheap or for free and raised them for food. We milked a cow, raised chickens, pigs and beef cattle. We heated our one-story house with wood and stayed cold all winter.
    Bonnie Jo Campbell
    American writer
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  • Earl Nightingale You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own ''acres of diamonds.''
    Earl Nightingale
    American radio speaker and author (1921 - 1989)
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