It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift.
“It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift.”
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It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift.
“It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift.”
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“It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift.”
“A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.”
“Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves.”
“The waste of capital, in proportion to the total capital, in this country between 1800 and 1850, in the attempts which were made to establish means of communication and transportation, was enormous.”
“Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life.”
“I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation.”
“Britain and America are always kind of at war with the Middle East in some way. And you've got Omid Djalili who is clearly an Iranian and very proud of his heritage, yet he is a very unique voice. He kind of belongs to Britain because he had a BBC show, but at the same time he hasn't rejected his Middle Eastern roots.”
“Every once in a while, the Senate seems to remember that it belongs to a coequal branch.”
“The invention of Bob Dylan with his guitar belongs in its way to the same kind of tradition of something meant to be heard, as the songs of Homer.”
“No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind.”
“Photography belongs to a fraternity of its own. I was young and enthusiastic and wanted to take good pictures to show the other photographers. That, and the professional pride of convincing an editor that I was the man to go somewhere, were the most important things to me.”