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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.”
Winston Churchill
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Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.
A. E. Housman
Young
Think
Lose
Sure
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Russia is tough. The history, the land, the people - brutal.
Henry Rollins
Land
History
Tough
Russia
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The aboriginal women leaders of Papunya - the Papunya Artists - performed a dance for me: the Honey Ant dance. They'd never done it for anyone else. They honoured me with a ceremonial stick that signifies the story of the land.
Quentin Bryce
Aboriginal
Ant
Anyone
Anyone Else
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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.
Washington Irving
Approach
Become
Charm
Distance
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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.
Desmond Tutu
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.
Desmond Tutu
Attribute
Young
Biological
Birth
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In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.
Kanye West
In
Paris
Far
As
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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.
Rachel Carson
Nature
Passion
Variety
Species
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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.
Muhammadu Buhari
Case
Take
Path
Process
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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.
Sylvia Plath
Atlantic
Childhood
Clearest
Cold
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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.
John Muir
Bark
Birds
Brush
Centuries
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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.
Octavio Paz
America
Continent
Created
Does
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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.
Adam Smith
Any
Become
Country
Demand
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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.
Malcolm X
The
Bible
God
Offered
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America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.
George W. Bush
Ahead
America
Better
BetterLife
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I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.
Harriet Tubman
Crossed
Free
Freedom
Had
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If every man would make his prime concern the comfort and well-being of his wife and every wife make her chief concern the comfort and well-being of her husband, we would have very little divorce in the land.
Gordon B. Hinckley
Chief
Chief Concern
Comfort
Concern
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We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Know
Understanding
Noble
Sentiments
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I have to announce here that I am not dead as I am presently in the land of the infidels.
Abubakar Shekau
Dead
Infidels
Land
Presently
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A regime which puts in a bunker the highest law in the land does not have the moral authority to say that nobody is above the law.
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Regime
Bunker
Highest
Law
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Galen
When
Especially
Viewing
Landscape
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In the days of Moses and the prophets such a man would have been counted among the wise men of the land; in the Middle Ages he would have been burned at the stake.
H.C. Andersen
Days
Moses
Prophets
Counted
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That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.
A. E. Housman
Again
Cannot
Come
Content
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Paul Rudd
About
Good
Great
Healthy
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To select, combine and concentrate that which is beautiful in nature and admirable in art is as much the business of the landscape painter in his line as in the other departments of art.
J. M. W. Turner
Beautiful
Art
Select
Painter Art Is Admirable
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Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.
Ray Bradbury
After
Bed
Day
Every
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If you're a Conservative, why aren't you behind conserving the land?
Ken Kesey
Behind
Conservative
Land
Why
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Romance is one of the sacred temples that dot the landscape of life.
Marianne Williamson
Dot
Landscape
Life
Romance
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The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength
Robert Browning
Breaks
Land
Loaded
Sea
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Young ones must have the fear of God in them, they must respect themselves and others, they must respect their profession, they must have the love of God, and obey the laws of the land. They mustn’t be involved in criminal activities that would stain their family name, and society.
King Sunny Ade
Young ones
Fear
God
Respect themselves
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To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself.
Leonard Cohen
Beyond
Condition
Constitution
Covenant
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By these purchases the Indian title, with moderate reservations, has been extinguished to the whole of the land within the limits of the State of Ohio, and to a part of that in the Michigan Territory and of the State of Indiana.
James Monroe
Been
Has Been
Indian
Indiana
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Hundreds of thousands of people are being butchered by terrorists all over the country as Buhari marks his 5 years in office whilst poverty, diesease, despair, hunger, fear & Covid 19 ravages the land. What type of man says & does nothing whilst his people are being slaughtered?
Femi Fani-Kayode
People
Being butchered
Terrorist
Country
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Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes
Bertolt Brecht
Unhappy
The land
Need
Heroes
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Mangroves hold coastlines in place. Once they are gone, the land erodes, and tides and currents reshape the coastline, making it difficult or impossible for mangroves to grow back in their former habitats.
Sharon Ikeazor
Mangroves
Hold coastlines
In place
Gone
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We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
Alan Paton
Work
For men
The land
The people
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A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living to the dead, people to animals, people to the land?
Alexander McCall Smith
A life
Stories
Bound us
The living
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We shall never achieve harmony with the land, anymore than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.
Aldo Leopold
Shall never
Achieve harmony
Land
Absolute justice
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Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. That is to say, you cannot love game and hate predators... The land is one organism.
Aldo Leopold
Harmony
With land
A friend
Cherish
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For years they have been using the role of 'sex object' as a cover while they spied out the land.
Anatole Broyard
Years
Using
Role
Sex-object
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Covid19 has changed the landscape and we have to rebuild our nation. It won’t be easy but has to be done.
Saviour Kasukuwere
Has changed
The landscape
We have
Rebuild
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Humans merely share the earth. We can only protect the land, not own it.
Chief Seattle
Human
Share
Earth
Protect
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You cannot save the land apart from the people, or the people apart from the land.
Wendell Berry
Save
Land
People
Apart
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For the true measure of agriculture is not the sophistication of its equipment the size of its income or even the statistics of its productivity but the good health of the land.
Wendell Berry
Agriculture
Income
Productivity
Health
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A sustainable agriculture is one which depletes neither the people nor the land.
Wendell Berry
Sustainable
Agriculture
People
Land
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The land belongs to the future.
Willa Cather
Land
Belongs
Future
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Let your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet.
Willa Cather
Fiction
Grow
Land
Feet
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You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Forget
Fruits
Belong
Land
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To live on the land we must learn from the ocean, to be true as the tide and free as the wind swell.
John Denver
Live
Learn
True
Free
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