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"No man is an island, entire of itself every man is a piece of the continent." »John Donne
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"West is too materialist; East is too spiritual; North is too cold; south is too loose!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"If you know the North, you know where the south is; if you know the darkness, you know where the light is! Evil is an excellent compass for the good!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"I am part of the sea and stars And the winds of the south and North Of mountains and Moon and Mars, And the ages sent me forth" »Edward H. S. Terry
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"If you know the North, you know where the south is; if you know the darkness, you know where the light is! Evil is an excellent compass to find the good!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of mystery." »Mary B. Yates
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"There is a terrible war coming, and these young men who have never seen war cannot wait for it to happen, but I tell you, I wish that I owned every slave in the south, for I would free them all to avoid this war." »Robert E. Lee
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"How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of goodwill In such a place even I would be an ardent patriot." »Albert Einstein
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"Our avian brothers are back to roost on the first leg of their annual sojourn south. Why them and not us Maybe it's because we humans are meant to be rooted in one spot." »Mitchell Burgess
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"In the south of California has gathered the larges and most miscellaneous assortment of Messiahs, Sorcerers, Saints and Seers known to the history of aberrations." »Farnsworth Crowder
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"Relative calm is expected in south Central Los Angeles for the next several weeks, as looters stay home and try to program their new VCRs." »Weekend Update
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"A big island of library, in the middle of an ocean, away from all the fools of the world, would this place not be a real paradise?" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Pardon him, Theodotus: he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature." »George Bernard Shaw, "Ceasar and Cleopatra"
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"By rousing himself, by earnestness, by restraint and control the wise man may make for himself an island which no flood can overwhelm." »The Dhammapada
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"I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they (the whites of south Africa) have turned to loving, they will find we (the blacks) are turned to hating." »Alan Stewart Paton
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"The people of the south have rejected the constitutional amendment, and therefore we will march upon them and force them to adopt it at the point of the bayonet, and establish military power over them until they do adopt it." »John Whitehead
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"Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here." »J Danforth Quayle
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"You gotta have a dream. If you don't have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true (South Pacific)" »Oscar Hammerstein, II
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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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"In the south where slavery still exists, the Negroes are less carefully kept apart they sometimes share the labors and the recreations of the whites the whites consent to intermix with them to a certain extent, and although legislation treats them more harshly, the habits of the people are more tolerant and compassionate." »Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville
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"We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender." »Sir Winston Churchill
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"We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hillswe shall never surrender." »Winston Churchill
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"No man is an island, entire of itself every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls It tolls for thee." »John Donne
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"Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of south Vietnam by North Vietnam." »Lyndon B. Johnson
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"We were married by a reformed rabbi in Long island. A very reformed rabbi. A Nazi." »Woody Allen
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"It was a false maxim of Domitian that he who would gain the people of Rome must promise all things and perform nothing. For when a man is known to be false in his word, instead of a column, which he might be by keeping it, for others to rest upon, he becomes a reed, which no man will vouchsafe to lean upon. Like a floating island, when we come next day to seek it, it is carried from the place we left it in, and, instead of earth to build upon, we find nothing but inconstant and deceiving waves." »Feltham
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"We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender." »Sir Winston Churchill, Speech, 4. June, 1940
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"We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and the oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills we shall never surrender." »Winston Churchill
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"You, the Spirit of the Settlement ... Not understand that America is God's crucible, the great melting-pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming Here, you stand, good folk, think I, when I see them at Ellis island, here you stand in your fifty groups, with your fifty languages and histories, and your fifty blood hatreds and rivalries..." »Israel Zangwill
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"I could have spoken from Rhode island where I have been staying ... But I felt that, in speaking from the house of Lincoln, of Jackson, and of Wilson, my words would better convey both the sadness I feel in the action I was compelled today to make and the firmness with which I intend to pursue this course until the orders of the federal court at Little Rock can be executed without unlawful interference. (On sending troops to enforce integration in Little Rock AR High School)" »Dwight D Eisenhower
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