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Robert McAfee Brown

"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."

Robert McAfee Brown, American Theologian
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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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"They say that it were great reproof to the king to take again what he has given, so that they will not suffer him to have his own good, nor land, nor forfeiture, nor any other good but they ask it from him, or else they take bribes of others to get it for him."

Jack Cade, English Activist
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"Louisiana loses 30 miles a year off our coast. We lost 100 miles last year off our coast thanks to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. We have lost a size of land equivalent to the entire state of Rhode Island."

Bobby Jindal, American Politician
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"They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher
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"It's hard not to be excited when you're going to find a way to land on the moon."

Alan Bean, American Astronaut
Land, Moon
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"When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer
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"You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land."

Billy Sunday, American Clergyman
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"Without the shepherd's dog, the whole of the open mountainous land in Scotland would not be worth a sixpence."

James Hogg, Scottish Poet
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"And for myself, I think for the present He is calling me to another land; but how long shall be my abode, or what employment He has for me there, I know not, for I cannot think He is taking me there to live and lurk only."

Donald Cargill, Scottish Clergyman
Land, Present
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"All I had to do was go out and perform. One of the hardest things was doing those back flips, where you had to jump up and land on the top rope. It's precision movement."

Owen Hart, Canadian Entertainer
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"In Amsterdam the water is the mistress and the land the vassal. throughout the city there are as many canals and drawbridges as bracelets on a Gypsy's bronzed arms."

Felix Marti-Ibanez, Spanish Physician
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