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"The next summer, 1794, corn grew dear, and distress began in our land."
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"Maintaining healthy forests is essential to those who make a living from the land and for those of us who use them for recreational purposes."
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"The holy land was supposed to be spotless, a serious equivalent of Disneyland in which not a single candy wrapper is to stay on the ground for more than a few minutes."
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"If you know how many acres you have sown of each kind of corn, inquire how much the acre the soil of that land takes for sowing, and count the number of quarters of seed, and you shall know the return of seed, and what ought to be over."
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"In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin."
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"Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square miles, upon which is spread unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls."
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"A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne."
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"The ranch was raw land when I bought it and, for better or worse, I have designed every aspect of it from the corrals, the arena, to the barn, to the house."
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"Land bridges were everywhere during the extinction, many species were spreading, and there were many diseases."
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"They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea."
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"In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context."
Meaning
"Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time."
Time
"It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be satisfied, while the latter consist of things that meet wants of a less urgent character."
Character
"All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indirectly: but not all desirable things are reckoned as wealth."
Wealth
"Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money."
Money
"In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old."
Life
"The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the nineteenth century."
Progress
"Material goods consist of useful material things, and of all rights to hold, or use, or derive benefits from material things, or to receive them at a future time."
Time
"The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes."
Change
"But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities."
Money
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