Inhabitants Quotes
215 Inhabitants quotes by 181 unique authors
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Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of…
— Arnold Bennett
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The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of…
— Jeremy Bentham
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Strange indeed would it be if all the space around us be empty, mere waste void, and the inhabitants of Earth the only forms in…
— Annie Besant
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The attainment of the present status of Thailand has to depend on the ability or the actions of all the inhabitants of the country.
— Bhumibol Adulyadej
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Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous fate of decaying metal. Yet…
— William S. Burroughs
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For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the…
— Jimmy Carter
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Strangers are welcome because there is room enough for them all, and therefore the old Inhabitants are not jealous of them; the Laws protect them…
— Benjamin Franklin
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While we allow the inhabitants of imaginary remote corners the authenticity of savages or sufferers, we rarely suppose them to possess the authenticity of complex,…
— Eva Hoffman
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Bend your minds and wills to the education of the peoples and kindreds of the earth, that haply the dissensions that divide it may, through…
— Bahá'u'lláh
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It is impossible that there should be inhabitants on the opposite side of the Earth, since no such race is recorded by Scripture among the…
— Saint Augustine
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Inhabitants of underdeveloped nations and victims of natural disasters are the only people who have ever been happy to see soybeans.
— Fran Lebowitz
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The future inhabitants of [both] the Atlantic and Mississippi states will be our sons. We think we see their happiness in their union, and we…
— Thomas Jefferson
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To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or…
— Claude Adrien Helvetius
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No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only the nature of…
— Ellsworth Huntington
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The surface of the earth is not simply a stage on which the thousands of present and past inhabitants played their parts in turn. There…
— Louis Agassiz
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The inhabitants of territories, often the theatre of war, are unavoidably subject to frequent infringements on their rights, which serve to weaken their sense of…
— Alexander Hamilton
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It may seem rash indeed to draw conclusions valid for the whole universe from what we can see from the small corner to which we…
— Emile Borel
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In the land of "I know," there is always competitiveness, jealousy, pretence, pride and arrogance. It is an aggressive realm - the realm of the…
— Mooji
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You only need sit still long enough in some attractive spot in the woods that all its inhabitants may exhibit themselves to you by turns.
— Henry David Thoreau
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What is the subject matter of this apparently very personal world? It has been suggested that these shapes and images are underworld characters, the inhabitants…
— Aaron Siskind
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There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good…
— Joseph Addison
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Who can stop climate change? We can. You and you and you, and me. And it is not just that we can stop it, we…
— Desmond Tutu
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When every province of the world so teems with inhabitants that they can neither subsist where they are nor remove themselves elsewhere... the world will…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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The inhabitants of the other spots reason in like manner, of course, with the result that from early infancy the mind of the child is…
— Emma Goldman
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May the children of the stock of Abraham who dwell in this land continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other inhabitants-while…
— George Washington
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