"When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere."

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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."

Robert McAfee Brown, American Theologian

Land, Prayer, Tourists

"Worm or beetle - drought or tempest - on a farmer's land may fall, Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a mortgage beats 'em all."

Will Carleton, American Poet

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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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"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."

Jules Verne, French Author

Land, Population

"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."

Cathy McMorris, American Politician

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"When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system."

Kalpana Chawla, American Astronaut

Land, Stars

"The sea has now changed from it's natural, to river coloured water, the probable consequence of some streams falling into the bay, or into the ocean to the north of it, through the low land."

George Vancouver, English Explorer

Land, Now, Ocean, Sea

"You can never reach the promised land. You can march towards it."

James Callaghan, English Leader

Land, March

"And finally Winter, with its bitin', whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow."

Roy Bean, American Judge

Land, Snow, Will, Wind

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

Alan Bean, American Astronaut

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"I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life."

Life

"My God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so easily."

Love

"The days go by, through the brief silence of winter, when the sunshine is so still and pure, like iced wine, and the dead leaves gleam brown, and water sounds hoarse in the ravines."

Nature

"People always make war when they say they love peace."

Love

"The point is, what sort of a time can a man give a woman? Can he give her a damn good time, or can't he? If he can't he's no right to the woman..."

Relationship

"Every man who is acutely alive is acutely wrestling his own soul."

Self

"Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror."

Death

"They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates."

Family

"So, after three days of incessant brandy-drinking, he had burned out the youth from his blood, he had achieved this kindled state of oneness with all the world, which is the end of youth's most passionate desire."

Philosophy

"All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing."

Nothing