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"It is a beneficent incident of the ownership of land that a pioneer who reduces it to use, and helps to lay the foundations of a new State, finds a profit in the increasing value of land as the new State grows up."
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"Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another's struggles."
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"Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise."
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"I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none."
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"If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey?"
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"When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere."
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"I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll from the sea. I am entranced by the mystery of them, and absorbed by their variety and kinds. Everywhere they are visible yet everywhere occult."
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"In the land of the skunks he who has half a nose is king."
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"Buckwheat may be planted later than any similar crop, and often does well on old meadows or waste land that can be broken after the more exacting crops are planted."
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"The guys today are just too strong and back then they would take many hard punches to land one."
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"Prayer for many is like a foreign land. When we go there, we go as tourists. Like most tourists, we feel uncomfortable and out of place. Like most tourists, we therefore move on before too long and go somewhere else."
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"It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land."
Governance
"I have before me a newspaper slip on which a writer expresses the opinion that no one should be allowed to possess more than one million dollars' worth of property."
Opinion
"If you ever live in a country run by a committee, be on the committee."
Governance
"Then, again, the ability to organize and conduct industrial, commercial, or financial enterprises is rare; the great captains of industry are as rare as great generals."
Finance
"The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its debt in the penitentiary or the poor house."
Man
"It is a beneficent incident of the ownership of land that a pioneer who reduces it to use, and helps to lay the foundations of a new State, finds a profit in the increasing value of land as the new State grows up."
Land
"There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors."
Property
"We are to see the development of the country pushed forward at an unprecedented rate by an aggregation of capital, and a systematic application of it under the direction of competent men."
Man
"Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life."
Life
"A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness."
Fitness
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