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  • The base emotions Plato banned have left a radio-active and not radiant land. -- Libby Houston
  • Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. -- Aldo Leopold
  • I wonder if it is Australia's great distance from more populated land masses that allows its inhabitants to be left to their own devices, to be incredibly creative and, at times, to be wonderfully weird. -- Henry Rollins
  • Both my parents came with their parents during the revolution in Cuba. Both my parents were born in Cuba. They left everything over there. My family got stripped of everything - of their land, of their jobs, everything. -- Dominik Garcia-Lorido
  • The Middle East is a land of great injustice. The Israelis can claim - or wish to, at least - that Lord Balfour's Declaration of 1917 promised Britain support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine, which didn't just mean the left-hand bit that became Israel. -- Robert Fisk
  • Like so many poor Ilokanos, my grandparents left their village, for it could no longer sustain them. The Ilocos is a narrow coastal plain where, so often, the mountain drops to the sea. Land hunger had always afflicted the Ilokanos and made them migratory. -- F. Sionil Jose
  • What I was trying to convey there was the kind of waste land that was left after the war. It was a bit like one always thinks of war, you know, stark scenery and no birds, no trees, no leaves, nothing living. And just emptiness. -- George Martin
  • I went to Cork, Ireland, and stood on the dock some of my ancestors had left from. I felt their ghosts gather round me, and I cried to imagine what it must have felt like - leaving that beautiful land and those beloved people, knowing it was forever. -- Luanne Rice
  • Many Japanese families moved to Taiwan during the occupation. Then, when the war ended, they were forced to move back. And at the macro level, the Taiwanese had every reason to cheer when the Japanese left. The Japanese military could often be incredibly brutal. The Taiwanese lived as second-class citizens on their own land. -- Gene Luen Yang
  • Viking women, if they were left behind, were ruling their town. They were earls in their own right; they owned land in their own right. They could divorce their husbands if they wanted to. All of those wonderful allowances that were made for women in the Viking culture weren't really part of the Christian culture at the time. -- Alyssa Sutherland
  • I have feelings that are to the right, and I have feelings that land on the left side of the aisle. The thing is if you have 10 views that land you on the left side of the aisle and two views that land you on the right side of the aisle, then people just put you on the right side of the aisle. I'm not sure why. -- Adam Carolla
  • Land is something one should never sell. It is the only thing left when all else is gone -- Isabel Allende
  • Jesus taught us a prayer of community and reconciliation, belonging to a new people who have left the land of 'me'. -- Shane Claiborne
  • Chains tie us down by land and sea; And wishes, vain as mine, may be All that is left to comfort thee. -- William Wordsworth
  • I do not fall. I fell so hard so long ago there is nothing left for me to land on. I just keep falling and falling and falling. -- Elizabeth Scott
  • I am not one of those who left the land to the mercy of its enemies. Their flattery leaves me cold, my songs are not for them to praise. -- Anna Akhmatova
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