"If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up."

Land, Ocean

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"If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up."

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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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"They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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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."

Bruce Babbitt, American Politician

Land, Monuments, President, Protection

"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

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"Without that sense of security which property gives, the land would still be uncultivated."

Francois Quesnay, French Economist

Land, Property, Security, Sense

"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 stepped on a land mine named Jayson Blair."

Howell Raines, American Editor

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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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"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."

William Dampier, English Explorer

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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."

Lucretius, Roman Poet

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Explore more quotes by Abraham Maslow

"Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values."

Motivational

"The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior."

People

"But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication."

Thought

"What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself."

Change

"All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization."

Health

"We may define therapy as a search for value."

Health

"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself."

Peace

"The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short."

Man

"If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life."

Life

"We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves."

Fear