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• We wish Pakistan both stability and security; we expect them to understand our legitimate concerns of preventing people from using its soil to inflict problem in India.

  Salman Khurshid

  People, Wish, India

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• A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.

  John Lothrop Motley

  Lying, Long, Culture

  John Lothrop Motley (1863). “The Rise of the Dutch Republic: Complete in One Volume”, p.12

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• I knew God wanted to do much more...and he would, if we provided good soil in which he could work.

  Jim Cymbala

  Wanted, Ifs

  Jim Cymbala (2010). “Fresh Wind Fresh Fire: What Happens When God's Spirit Invades the Hearts of His People”, p.17, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It takes place, by and large, with the same sort of necessity as a tree brings forth fruit, and demands of the world no more than a soil on which the individual can flourish.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Tree, World, Demand

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2004). “On the Suffering of the World”, p.99, Penguin UK

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• ... finding that in [the Moon] there is a provision of light and heat; also in appearance, a soil proper for habitation fully as good as ours, if not perhaps better who can say that it is not extremely probable, nay beyond doubt, that there must be inhabitants on the Moon of some kind or other?

  William Herschel

  Science, Moon, Light

  William Herschel (2013). “The Scientific Papers of Sir William Herschel”, p.90, Cambridge University Press

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• Each of us, even the lowliest and most insignificant among us, was uprooted from his innermost existence by the almost constant volcanic upheavals visited upon our European soil and, as one of countless human beings, I can't claim any special place for myself except that, as an Austrian, a Jew, writer, humanist and pacifist, I have always been precisely in those places where the effects of the thrusts were most violent.

  Stefan Zweig

  Special, Upheaval, Violent

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• So let's not get frightened when the children read fantasy. It's the compost for a healthy mind. It stimulate s the inquisitive nodes, and there is some evidence that a rich internal fantasy life is as good and necessary for a child as healthy soil is for a plant, for much the same reasons.

  Terry Pratchett

  Children, Healthy, Mind

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• Capitalist agricultural production prevents the return to the soil of its elements consumed by man in the form of food and clothing; it therefore violates the conditions necessary to lasting fertility of the soil. By this action it destroys at the same time the health of the town labourer and the intellectual life of the rural labourer.

  Karl Marx

  Men, Intellectual, Fertility

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Karl Marx (Illustrated)”, p.1529, Delphi Classics

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• It is a thorough process, this war with the wilderness - breaking nature, taming the soil. feeding it on oats. The civilized man regards the pine tree as his enemy. He will fell it and let in the light, grub it up and raise wheat or rye there. It is no better than a fungus to him.

  Henry David Thoreau

  War, Men, Light

  David R. Foster, Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Thoreau's Country: Journey through a Transformed Landscape”, p.38, Harvard University Press

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• What we want is not mainly to colonize Nebraska with free men, but to colonize Massachusetts with free men-to be free ourselves. As the enterprise of a few individuals, that is brave and practical; but as the enterprise of the State, it is cowardice and imbecility. What odds where we squat, or bow much ground we cover? It is not the soil that we would make free, but men.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Freedom, Men, Odds

  Henry David Thoreau, David Gross (2007). “The Price of Freedom: Political Philosophy from Thoreau's Journals”, p.135, David M Gross

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• If a man is rich and strong anywhere, it must be on his native soil. Here I have been these forty years learning the language of these fields that I may the better express myself. If I should travel to the prairies, I should much less understand them, and my past life would serve me but ill to describe them. Many a weed here stands for more of life to me than the big trees of California would if I should go there. We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Weed, Travel, Strong

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.346, Yale University Press

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• Leave the oil in the soil, leave the coal in the hole.

  Nnimmo Bassey

  Oil, Coal, Holes

  "Naomi Klein kick-starts the activism at Copenhagen with call for disobedience" by Bibi van der Zee, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2009.

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• Life is the soil, our choices and actions the sun and rain, but our dreams are the seeds.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Dream, Rain, Choices

  Richard Paul Evans (2012). “A Winter Dream: A Novel”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• The carved images on the early Minoan sealstones are tantalising, inscrutable. The Nature Goddess is yanked from the soil like a snake or a sheaf of barley; the Mistress of the Animals suckles goats and gazelles. There are male Adorants certainly - up on tiptoe, their outstretched arms hoisted in a kind of heil, their bodies arched suggestively, pelvis forward, before the Goddess - but there are no masculine deities, not a single one in sight. No woman worth her salt, one might think, could fail to be intrigued.

  Alison Fell

  Animal, Thinking, Sight

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• There isn't a tree to hang a man, water to drown a man nor soil to bury a man

  Oliver Cromwell

  Men, Water, Tree

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• A singular fact about modern war is that it takes charge. Once begun it has to be carried to its conclusion, and carrying it there sets in motion events that may be beyond men's control. Doing what has to be done to win, men perform acts that alter the very soil in which society's roots are nourished.

  Bruce Catton

  Peace, War, Winning

  Bruce Catton (1985). “The Civil War”, p.173, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Every time it rains, the soil counts every drop to know exactly how many times to thank to God!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Rain, Knows

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• Women ... are completely alone, though they were born and bred upon this soil, as if they belonged to another class in creation.

  Herbert Croly

  Class, Creation, Born

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• Our own country furnishes antiquities as ancient and durable, and as useful, as any; rocks at least as well covered with lichens,and a soil which, if it is virgin, is but virgin mould, the very dust of nature. What if we cannot read Rome or Greece, Etruria or Carthage, or Egypt or Babylon, on these; are our cliffs bare?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, America, Rocks

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.193, Delphi Classics

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• You ask if there is no doctrine of sorrow in my philosophy. Of acute sorrow I suppose that I know comparatively little. My saddestand most genuine sorrows are apt to be but transient regrets. The place of sorrow is supplied, perchance, by a certain hard and proportionately barren indifference. I am of kin to the sod, and partake of its dull patience,--in winter expecting the sun of spring.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Patience, Regret, Philosophy

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.359, Penguin

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• If you are unknown, you can work better! Deserted soils of the mountains create the most beautiful flowers!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Beautiful, Flower, Mountain

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• As I drew a still fresher soil about the rows with my hoe, I disturbed the ashes of unchronicled nations who in primeval years lived under these heavens, and their small implements of war and hunting were brought to the light of this modern day.

  Henry David Thoreau

  War, Native American, Hunting

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.247

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• I have no sentiments for nationality or for soil. But I grew up in Israel, so those things are in my blood, and I want to be part of Israeli culture.

  Mili Avital

  Israel, Blood, Culture

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Peace is the most covetable possession on the earth. It is the greatest treasure in all the universe. Peace is the most important and indispensable factor for all growth and development. It is in the tranquility and quiet of the night that the seed slowly sprouts from under the soil. The bud opens in the depth of the most silent hours. So also, in a state of peace and love, people evolve, grow in their distinctive culture, and develop perfect civilization.

  Sivananda

  Night, Civilization, Greatest Treasure

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• As soon as I put my foot on Indian soil, my painting underwent a change not only in subject and spirit but in technique.

  Amrita Sher-Gil

  Feet, Technique, Spirit

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