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There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.

Delights Fills Majesty Noble
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The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible.

Approach Become Charm Distance
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Years ago - in the 70s, for about a decade - I carried a camera every place I went. And I shot a lot of pictures that were still life and landscape, using available light.

About Available Camera Carried
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This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.

Bands Fall Fear Freed
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When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

Africa Bible Closed Eyes
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In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin.

Attribute Young Biological Birth
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Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal.

Across Africa Appeal Countries
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Reading 'Search Sweet Country' is like reading a dream, and indeed, at times, it feels like the magical landscapes of writers like the Nigerian Ben Okri or the Mozambican Mia Couto.

Ben Country Dream Feels
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The magic of landing my first role on Broadway went 'poof' in a matter of a few weeks.

Broadway Few First Landing
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I love stuff from the Holy Land. It makes me feel blessed.

Blessed Feel Holy Land
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For a long time, men weren't respecting women. They weren't understanding Mother Earth, Mother Nature, the Motherland, all the motherly stuff. And now we are.

Earth Long Long Time Men
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England is so black and white, so plain, like a burger with nothing on it. No salad, nothing. That's why it's so real.

Black Black And White Burger England
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My native land is a slave of heathenism, men's god is their belly, and they live only for the present. The richer a man, the holier.

Belly God Land Live
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In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.

In Paris Far As
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In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.
Beach Headlands Sand
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Nature has introduced great variety into the landscape, but man has displayed a passion for simplifying it. Thus he undoes the built-in checks and balances by which nature holds the species within bounds.

Nature Passion Variety Species
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Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket - half a million dollars. It can be done.

Dollars Done Half Land
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There are some important differences between me and Tony Stark, like I have five kids, so I spend more time going to Disneyland than parties.

Between Differences Disneyland Five
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Y'all are so cute and y'all talk so proper over here. I love England.

Cute England Here I Love
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If there is a better singer in England than Craig David, then I am Margaret Thatcher.

Am Better Craig David
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I've always said to my men friends, If you really care for me, darling, you will give me territory. Give me land, give me land.

Always Care Darling Friends
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Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.

Bland Business Entertainment EntertainmentBusiness
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I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.

Acres ABecause Being Beverly
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In the case of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, I have seen him take the tortuous path of using the judicial process. He persevered, and in the end, the highest court of the land, the Supreme Court, says he is not guilty as charged.

Case Take Path Process
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No longer shall illegal flows of massive sums leave these shores to finance other economies. While our people languish in poverty, we effectively give financial aid to nations that is not justified. I am sick of this. It must stop. The money saved will finance jobs, health care and the provision of social safety net for the needy, weak and vulnerable of our land.

Land Weak Safety Sick
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It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.

Easy Holding Feels Commit
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That is how it stiffens, my vision of that seaside childhood. My father died; we moved inland. Whereon those nine first years of my life sealed themselves off like a ship in a bottle - beautiful, inaccessible, obsolete: a fine, white, flying myth.

Beautiful Bottle Childhood Died
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There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

Any Away Book Lands
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I'm a working-class kid from a blue-collar New England family.
Blue-Collar England Family Kid
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My childhood landscape was not land but the end of the land - the cold, salt, running hills of the Atlantic. I sometimes think my vision of the sea is the clearest thing I own.

Atlantic Childhood Clearest Cold
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Arrogant, I think I have written lines which qualify me to be The Poetess of America (as Ted will be The Poet of England and her dominions).

America Arrogant England Her
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If I tried to describe my personality, I'd start to gush about living by the ocean half my life and being brought up on 'Alice in Wonderland' and believing in magic for years and years.

About Alice Being Believing
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The fact is, everything we want or yearn for is won through other people. No man on an island is happy; he is merely existing. The joyous life is the one filled with rich relationships.

Everything Existing Fact Filled
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From today forward, I put the protection of Biafra land in the hands of the Biafra Security Services

Biafra Security Protection Land
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Indians walk softly and hurt the landscape hardly more than the birds and squirrels, and their brush and bark huts last hardly longer than those of wood rats, while their more enduring monuments, excepting those wrought on the forests by the fires they made to improve their hunting grounds, vanish in a few centuries.

Bark Birds Brush Centuries
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Beetles and butterflies are sometimes restricted to small areas. Each mountain in a range, and even the different zones of a mountain, may have its own peculiar species. But the house-fly seems to be everywhere. I wonder if any island in mid-ocean is flyless.

Any Area Butterflies Different
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I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.

Breakfast Eggs Myself New
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Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?

Hills Itself Jails Justice
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Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

Among Death His Honor
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What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

Anyone Anyone Else Been Could
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The presence and the present of America are a future; our continent is, by its nature, the land which does not exist on its own, but as something which is created and invented.

America Continent Created Does
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Literatures, like trees and plants, are born of a land and in it flourish and die. But literatures, also like plants, may be carried abroad to take root in a foreign soil.

Abroad Also Born Carried
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Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.
Roots Landscape Country People
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As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.

Any Become Country Demand
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New York State is giant and has some of the most beautiful landscape on the Eastern seaboard. There is so much history in New York State, from the Erie Canal to the Catskills, the birth of American stand-up comedy.

American Beautiful Birth Canal
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England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

America Countries England Language
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If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.

Became Because England Industrial
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I actually have a fear of the water because I nearly drowned. I got caught in a rip tide, and I wasn't a good swimmer because that was when I was emigrating from England to Australia.

Actually Australia Because Caught
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In the Bible, God offered the Pharaoh freedom if he would just let the oppressed people free to go to the land of milk and honey. But the Pharaoh disobeyed, and he was destroyed.

The Bible God Offered
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There's no bigger task than protecting the homeland of our country.
Bigger Country Homeland Our
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