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Births

• 1953 - Alfred Molina
• 1966 - Eric Cantona
• 1955 - Rosanne Cash
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• We live in a land like no other – a land of freedom and opportunity unparalleled on the face of the globe.

  Bob Taft

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• The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o’er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.

  Robert Browning

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• To try to really land a spacecraft really on another world is really difficult, and if we lose that ability, it’s going to be heartbreaking.

  Bill Nye

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• If you’re using first-class land for biofuels, then you’re competing with the growing of food. And so you’re actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture.

  Bill Gates

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• Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.

  Bertolt Brecht

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• Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression.

  T. E. Lawrence

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• Only around 2% of the earth’s surface is cultivatable land.

  Susan George

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• Herein lies our problem. If we level that much land to grow rice and whatever, then no other animal could live there except for some insect pest species. Which is very unfortunate.

  Steve Irwin

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• Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.

  Stephen Gardiner

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• Anything to do with the land, I love.

  Chris LeDoux

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• What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief.

  Sitting Bull

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• 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.

  Sir David Attenborough

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• Soldiers are citizens of death’s grey land, drawing no dividend from time’s tomorrows.

  Siegfried Sassoon

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• In Israel, a land lacking in natural resources, we learned to appreciate our greatest national advantage: our minds. Through creativity and innovation, we transformed barren deserts into flourishing fields and pioneered new frontiers in science and technology.

  Shimon Peres

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• The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality.

  Shimon Peres

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• What should be the future of Israel? Is the land the most important choice, and for that reason to keep the whole of the land at any cost, or to have a partition and build the Jewish state on part of the land? And the other part?

  Shimon Peres

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• Pouring concrete on land you don’t own is called a calculated risk, if you don’t pour you loose millions.

  Shimon Peres

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• There is no way to ease the burden. The voyage leads on from harm to harm, A land of others and of silence.

  Donald Justice

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• I want to be the first lady to land a quadruple jump in competition. As I grow older, I know that my skating style will develop and mature.

  Sasha Cohen

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• Working in an underdeveloped land for two or three years, the volunteer will often find that his work is routine and full of frustration.

  Sargent Shriver

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