"Heinlein never had a best-seller. Even, I think, with Stranger in a Strange Land, I don't think it was actually on the New York Times best seller list."

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"Heinlein never had a best-seller. Even, I think, with Stranger in a Strange Land, I don't think it was actually on the New York Times best seller list."

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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."

Alan Bennett, English Dramatist

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"If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey?"

Oliver St. John, English Statesman

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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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"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."

Liberty Hyde Bailey, American Scientist

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"In the land of the skunks he who has half a nose is king."

Chris Farley, American Comedian

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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."

David F. Houston, American Politician

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"The guys today are just too strong and back then they would take many hard punches to land one."

Larry Holmes, American Athlete

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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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"So, I guess the answer to your question is very few people can bring off a novel of the future because it's just so damn hard to make it look like the future."

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"Heinlein never had a best-seller. Even, I think, with Stranger in a Strange Land, I don't think it was actually on the New York Times best seller list."

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"We do a hard fantasy as well as hard science fiction, and I think I probably single-handedly recreated military science fiction. It was dead before I started working in it."

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"I have more information in one place than anybody in the world."

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