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"What greater grief than the loss of one's native land." »Euripides
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"I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could." »George Bernard Shaw
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"I die without seeing the dawn brighten over my native land. You who have it to see, welcome it--and forget not those who have fallen during the night! (Noli Me Tangere)" »Dr. Jose P. Rizal
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"This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought
Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land
Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand." »Aristophanes, Wasps, 422 B.C.
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"This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand." »Aristophanes
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"The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, that they live only for the present, and that the richer a man is the holier he is held to be." »Saint Jerome
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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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"While the gentleman cherishes benign rule, the small man cherishes his native land. While the gentleman cherishes a respect for the law, the small man cherishes generous treatment." »Confucius, nalects, IV.11
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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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"...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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"What you have in your mind, your talents, your native abilities, no one can take from you. When you die you take them with you. Use them diligently while you are here." »Alfred A. Montapert
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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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"There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress." »Mark Twain
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"Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof." »Thomas Fuller
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"But to my mind, though I am native here
And to the manner born, it is a custom
More honoured in the breach than the observance." »William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 4
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"But to my mind, though I am native here And to the manner born, it is a custom More honoured in the breach than the observance." »William Shakespeare
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"It could probably be show by facts and figures that there is no distinctively native American criminal class except Congress." »Mark Twain
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"Some of your countrymen were unable to distinguish between their native dislike for war and the stainless patriotism of those who suffered its scars. But there has been a rethinking and now we can say to you, and say as a nation, thank you for your courage." »Ronald Reagan
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"Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow." »Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein
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"American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralise every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to fuse it in the native good-will, complacency thoughtlessness, and optimism." »James Harvey Robinson
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"The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent." »Smiley Blanton
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"We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it." »Benjamin Lee Whorf
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"True gentleness is founded on a sense of what we owe to him who made us and to the common nature which we all share. It arises from reflection on our own failings and wants, and from just views of the condition and duty of man. It is native feeling heightened and improved by principle." »Hugh Blair
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"The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt." »Jesse Louis Jackson
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"land and Freedom!" »Emiliano Zapata
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