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In man - in the history of mankind, this has happened many times, and occupation leaders hang on to the land that they're occupying. People fight to liberate their land. But in the end, the people's will is what achieves victory. (Quote by - Hassan Nasrallah)

After all the fertile land in the immediate neighbourhood of the first settlers were cultivated, if capital and population increased, more food would be required, and it could only be procured from land not so advantageously situated. (Quote by - David Ricardo)

I believe that Palestine is an occupied land from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River, and this is the right of the entire Palestinian people, this land. (Quote by - Hassan Nasrallah)

The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except in its own fashion. (Quote by - Mary Austin)

The problem is we disagree about the origin. Is this occupied land or not? (Quote by - Hassan Nasrallah)

The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness. (Quote by - Henry Ellis)

The interesting thing is, while we die of diseases of affluence from eating all these fatty meats, our poor brethren in the developing world die of diseases of poverty, because the land is not used now to grow food grain for their families. (Quote by - Jeremy Rifkin)

Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square miles, upon which is spread unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls. (Quote by - Jules Verne)

In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home. (Quote by - Emma Goldman)

The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world. (Quote by - Bill Frist)

Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land. (Quote by - Herman Melville)

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)

We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any. (Quote by - Nikolai Gogol)

I most often land up taking up the roles that I most detest. (Quote by - Christine Lahti)

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever. (Quote by - John Keats)

Your future is still before you. Your land is a vast storehouse of mineral and agricultural wealth awaiting further development for the benefit of mankind. It potentialities are magnificent. (Quote by - Charles E. Wilson)

The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind. (Quote by - Woodrow Wilson)

You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see. (Quote by - Tadao Ando)

What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief. (Quote by - Sitting Bull)

The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That's my idea. (Quote by - Nikolai Gogol)

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land. (Quote by - Gilbert K. Chesterton)

I loved getting to do Promised Land with him. I mean, he's really there for you. We did one very emotional scene in the church. He's just a wonderful acting partner. You feel very safe with him. (Quote by - Delta Burke)

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. (Quote by - Joseph Campbell)

The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land. (Quote by - Arnold J. Toynbee)

Some otherwise sane scientists have seriously proposed that we tuck this deadly garbage under the edges of drifting continents but how can they be sure the moving land masses will climb over the waste and not just push it forward? (Quote by - David R. Brower)

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