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  • 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.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Alain de Botton Quotes , War Quotes , Land Quotes
  • [On The Waste Land:] Various critics have done me the honor to interpret the poem in terms of criticism of the contemporary world, have considered it, indeed, as an important bit of social criticism. To me it was only the relief of a personal and wholly insignificant grouse against life; it is just a piece of rhythmical grumbling.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Land Quotes , Honor Quotes
  • I do think that there is a big difference between family farms and agri-business, and one of the distressing things that I think has occurred is with consolidation of farm lands. You've seen large agri-businesses benefit from enormous profits from existing farm programs, and I think we should be focusing most of those programs on those family farmers.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Land Quotes
  • What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That's all that can be said about land.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Home Quotes , Land Quotes
  • The rage for road building is beneficent for America, where vast distance is so main a consideration in our domestic politics andtrade, inasmuch as the great political promise of the invention is to hold the Union staunch, whose days already seem numbered by the mere inconvenience of transporting representatives, judges and officers across such tedious distances of land and water.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Distance Quotes , Land Quotes
  • The annual produce of the land and labour of any nation can be increased in its value by no other means, but by increasing either the number of its productive labourers, or the productive powers of those labourers who had before been employed.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Mean Quotes , Land Quotes