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"Look at the bow in the cloud, in the very rain itself. That is a sign that the sun, though you cannot see it, is shining still -- that up above beyond the cloud is still sunlight and warmth and cloudless blue sky." »Charles Kingsley
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"Just after they exist, all men start travelling; some towards the land of the truth, some towards the land of the stupidity! Most men are on their way to the second land!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Our land is more valuable than your money. As long as the sun shines and the waters flow, this land will be here to give life to men and animals; therefore, we cannot sell this land. It was put here for us by the Great Spirit and we cannot sell it because it does not belong to us." »Blackfoot chief, (c. 1880)
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"We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be healthy or sick, fertile or barren, rich or poor, lovingly nurtured or bled white. Our present attitudes and laws governing the ownership and use of land represent an abuse of the concept of private property.... Today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see and nobody calls the cops." »Paul Brooks, The Pursuit of Wilderness (1971)
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"To reach the Land of Calmness, you must pass through the Land of Storms! All heavens require hard struggling!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"If you can be Kind in the Land of Rudeness, you can be King in the Land of Kindness." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"In the land of genius, the sun always shines; in the land of clever, there are many clouds!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, this is no other life but this." »Henry David Thoreau
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"The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo." »Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters
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"Nature is a mutable cloud, which is always and never the same." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"A Shade upon the mind there passesAs when on NoonA Cloud the mighty Sun encloses." »Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
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"Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day." »Bertrand Russell
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"In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce The cuckoo clock." »Orson Welles
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"In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock." »Orson Welles
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"I fixed my eyes on the larget cloud, as if, when it passed out of my sight, I might have the good luck to pass with it." »Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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"...And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land. So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man." »Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"My mother groan'd, my father wept Into the dangerous world I leapt, Helpless, naked, piping load, Like a friend hid in a cloud." »William Blake
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"Frank oh, say can you see, buy the dawn's early light, what so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming. who's bright strips and broad stars, in the parelious night, o'er the rampart's we watched, as the da da, da, da, da, da, and the rocket's red glare, lots of bombs in the air, gave proof to the night, that we still had a flag, oh say does that spangle banner wave, over all-l-l-l-l that's free, over the home, of the land, and the land of the free" »Naked Gun From the Files of Police Squad
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"With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of these things. Riches and honors acquired by unrighteousness are to me as a floating cloud." »Confucius
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"Discontent is like ink poured into water, which fills the whole fountain full of blackness. It casts a cloud over the mind, and renders it more occupied about the evil which disquiets it than about the means of removing it." »Feltham
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"The sun opens the lotuses, the moon illumines the beds of water-lilies, the cloud pours forth its water unasked: even so the liberal of their own accord are occupied in benefiting others." »Bhartrihari
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"Low-minded men are occupied solely with their own affairs, but noble-minded men take special interest in the affairs of others. The submarine fire drinks up the ocean, to fill its insatiable interior; the rain-cloud, that it may relieve the drought of the earth, burnt up by the hot season." »Bhartrihari
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"Land and Freedom!" »Emiliano Zapata
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"They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea." »Francis Bacon
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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron." »Dwight D. Eisenhower, From a speech before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 16, 1963
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"Truth is a pathless land." »Krishnamurti
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"Where would this country be without this great land of ours?" »Ronald Reagan
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"I'd love to travel to the Holy Land." »Loretta Lynn
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"What each must seek in his own life never was on land or sea. It is something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else." »Joseph Campbell
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"Before we take to the sea, we walk on land. . . Before we create, we must understand. . ." »Ernest Hemingway
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