Famous quotes containing the words land, state and/or provincial:
“It seems, just now,
To be happening so very fast;
Despite all the land left free
For the first time I feel somehow
That it isnt going to last....”
—Philip Larkin (19221986)
“The state is therefore everyone; the rules within the state are laws which safeguard the welfare of all and which must originate from the welfare of all.”
—Georg Büchner (18131837)
“In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadnt developed space travel were mere prehistoryhorse-shoe crabs of the cosmic sceneand something of the humiliation of being stuck on a provincial planet in a galactic backwater has stayed with me ever since.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)
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