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Alan Bennett

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

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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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"Protecting all this land, working with the President to establish all these monuments, to, you know... I think the President has a land protection record that's second to no one in this century, maybe Teddy Roosevelt."

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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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"To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships."

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"I stepped on a land mine named Jayson Blair."

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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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"The 6th of August in the morning we saw an opening in the land and we ran into it, and anchored in 7 and a half fathom water, 2 miles from the shore, clean sand."

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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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"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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