"I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none."

Land, Sea

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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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"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

"This land, this water, this air, this planet - this is our legacy to our young."

Paul Tsongas, American Politician

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"The city is as large as Seville or Cordova; its streets, I speak of the principal ones, are very wide and straight; some of these, and all the inferior ones, are half land and half water, and are navigated by canoes."

Hernando Cortes, Spanish Leader

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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."

Herbert Croly, American Author

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"Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged."

Neil Abercrombie, American Politician

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"There are but few naval powers, but there are many land powers."

Frank B. Kellogg, American Politician

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"This morning's scene is good and fine, Long rain has not harmed the land."

Du Fu, Chinese Poet

Land, Rain

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

W. E. B. Du Bois, American Writer

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"I will burn your city, your land, your self."

Hulagu Khan, Mongolian Leader

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"I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control."

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"We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off."

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"Life is generally something that happens elsewhere."

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"Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore."

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"Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching."

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"I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out."

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"My films are about embarrassment."

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