Lands Quotes
435 Lands quotes by 365 unique authors
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After the allied victory of 1918, at the end of my father's war, the victors divided up the lands of their former enemies. In the…
— Robert Fisk
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But even if ego-death is regarded as the optimum model for human existence, one of liberation from ourselves, it still remains a compromise with being,…
— Thomas Ligotti
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This book is not about heroes. English poetry is not yet fit to speak of them. Nor is it about deeds, or lands, nor anything…
— Wilfred Owen
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Who will find peace with the lands? The future of humankind lies waiting for those who will come to understand their lives and take up…
— Vine Deloria, Jr.
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We must recognize the full human equality of all our people - before God, before the law, and in the councils of government. We must…
— Robert Kennedy
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Americans have long recognized the need to protect our public lands and their vast resources
— Barbara Boxer
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More than ever, I feel that the human race is one. There are differences of colour, language, culture and opportunities, but people's feelings and reactions…
— Sebastiao Salgado
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But before and after the Mongol upheaval, the Khazars sent many offshoots into the unsubdued Slavonic lands, helping ultimately to build up the great Jewish…
— Unknown Author
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I think also of my colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands, and feel that in some measure I am here as a representative…
— Murray Gell-Mann
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In order to save the forty million inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, our colonial statesmen must acquire new lands for…
— Cecil Rhodes
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If the minds of living beings are impure, their land is also impure, but if their minds are pure, so is their land. There are not…
— Nichiren
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I have ever been opposed to banks, - opposed to internal improvements by the general government, - opposed to distribution of public lands among the…
— Sam Houston
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I am talking about societies drained of their essence, cultures trampled underfoot, institutions undermined, lands confiscated, religions smashed, magnificent artistic creations destroyed, extraordinary possibilities wiped…
— Aime Cesaire
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One of the effects of civilization is to diminish the rigour of the application of the law of natural selection. It preserves weakly lives that…
— Francis Galton
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How many of us lobby for green energy or protected lands, but don't engage with the local bounty to lay by for tomorrow's unseasonal reality?…
— Joel Salatin
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The driving motivation of a new American endeavor in Iraq and in neighboring Arab lands should be modernizing the Arab world.
— Fouad Ajami
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The explorers seek happiness in finding curiosities, discovering new lands and undergoing risks in adventures. They are thrilling. But where is pleasure found? Only within.…
— Ramana Maharshi
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From several of the Indian tribes inhabiting the country bordering on Lake Erie purchases have been made of lands on conditions very favorable to the…
— James Monroe
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Let children have tales of the imagination, scenes laid in other lands and other times; heroic adventures, hairbreadth escapes, delicious fairy tales, even where it…
— Charlotte Mason
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There are a range of associated impacts related to increasing temperatures which affect both evaporation rates and river systems, which are already over stressed, and…
— Peter Garrett
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Every virile people has established colonial power. All great nations in the fullness of their strength have desired to set their mark upon barbarian lands…
— Heinrich von Treitschke
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I, or rather the Lord, beseech you as Christ's heralds to publish this everywhere and to persue all people of whatever rank, foot-soldiers and knights,…
— Pope Urban II
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Perhaps some deep-rooted atavism urges the wanderer back to lands which his ancestors left in the dim beginnings of history. Sometimes a man hits upon…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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America is dealing death, not only to people of other lands, but to its own people. So say the most thoughtful and passionate of our…
— Charles A. Reich
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The life of Islamic philosophy did not terminate with Ibn Rushd nearly eight hundred years ago, as thought by Western scholarship for several centuries. Rather,…
— Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Who Wrote These Lands Quotes
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