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Corn is an efficient way to get energy calories off the land and soybeans are an efficient way of getting protein off the land, so we've designed a food system that produces a lot of cheap corn and soybeans resulting in a lot of cheap fast food. (Quote by - Michael Pollan)

Buy land. They ain't making any more of the stuff. (Quote by - Will Rogers)

Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land. (Quote by - E. M. Forster)

Maybe every other American movie shouldn't be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy land where reality is whatever we say it is and every problem can be solved with violence. (Quote by - Bill Maher)

This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty - the cause of humanity. (Quote by - William Jennings Bryan)

The land is ours. It's not European and we have taken it, we have given it to the rightful people... Those of white extraction who happen to be in the country and are farming are welcome to do so, but they must do so on the basis of equality. (Quote by - Robert Mugabe)

Buy land, they're not making it anymore. (Quote by - Mark Twain)

They want us to give up another chunk of our tribal land. This is not the first time or the last time. (Quote by - Sitting Bull)

Whenever, then, the usual and ordinary rate of the profits of agricultural stock, and all the outgoings belonging to the cultivation of land, are together equal to the value of the whole produce, there can be no rent. (Quote by - David Ricardo)

I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land. (Quote by - Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well. (Quote by - Dwight D. Eisenhower)

I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel like, I will go to bed at half past eleven. If that means going to bed early or late, that's what I live by. As soon as you get there, live by that time. (Quote by - David Attenborough)

In the land of the skunks he who has half a nose is king. (Quote by - Chris Farley)

When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system. (Quote by - Kalpana Chawla)

A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne. (Quote by - Georges Clemenceau)

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit. (Quote by - Helen Keller)

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up. (Quote by - Abraham Maslow)

The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it's a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other, who want the other to respect them. Battles over status can be even more intractable than those over land or water or oil. (Quote by - Alain de Botton)

Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property. (Quote by - Maria Edgeworth)

Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor. (Quote by - John Ruskin)

Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes. (Quote by - Bertolt Brecht)

I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves. (Quote by - John Wayne)

It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away. (Quote by - Anthony Trollope)

When we seed millions of acres of land with these plants, what happens to foraging birds, to insects, to microbes, to the other animals, when they come in contact and digest plants that are producing materials ranging from plastics to vaccines to pharmaceutical products? (Quote by - Jeremy Rifkin)

Ellis Peters's historical detail is very accurate and very minute, and therefore is not only interesting to read but good for an actor to acquire a sense of the period. And the other thing I think is that an actor lives in the land of imagination. (Quote by - Derek Jacobi)

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