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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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"As long as there's land available, single-family homes will be built, and Colorado residents will always go for a single-family over a condo."

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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."

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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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"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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"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."

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"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."

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"I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land."

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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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"Down in the south, it's how we find the brownfield sites without taking too much land take to meet the tremendous demand for housing, and that's what I've done."

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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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