Quotes 81 till 100 of 228.
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If we can't afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we're in an insurmountable mess.
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If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you.
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Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, where wealth accumulates, and men decay.
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In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land.
Speech Stanford University, 11 august 1928 -
In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.
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In order for a man to really understand himself he must be part of a nation; he must have some land of his own, a God of his own, a language of his own. Most of all he must have love and devotion for his own kind.
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In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.
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In the aftermath of President Obama's re-election, members of both the administration and the media trumpeted that Obama had received his long-sought mandate. Obamacare, Americans were told, was the law of the land. It could not be changed; it could not be stopped.
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In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.
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Instead of passing blithely over into that Promised Land, flowing almost literally with milk and honey, it may be our destiny to wander a full 40 years or more in the wilderness of doubt and divided sentiments.
Storage and Stability Part I, Ch. I, The Changing Role of Surplus Stocks -
Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty.
First Inaugural Address (1861) -
Into my heart an air that kills
From yon far country blows:
What are those blue remembered hills,
What spires, what farms are those?
That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come again.A Shropshire Lad (1896) -
It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away.
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It is a noble land that God has given us: a land that can feed and clothe the world; a land whose coastlines would enclose half the countries of Europe; a land set like a sentinel between the two imperial oceans of the globe.
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It was strange being an adolescent fantasy for other people. I was so cut off from the real world. I went straight into the movies as a teenybopper, and had a very protracted adolescence myself. I was divorced when I was 20, but I was an adolescent until I was 26. Then I was in Europe, living with this fellow and he kind of helped me out. Told me some things about myself.
Interview by Roger Ebert, December 4, 1972 -
It's hard not to be excited when you're going to find a way to land on the moon.
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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
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Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for 'Tis the only thing in this world that lasts, 'Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for - worth dying for.
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Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.
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Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.
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