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“People actually occupy around 3 per cent of the earth's land surface. If 1,200 square feet was given to every person in the world, they would still all fit into an area the size of Texas - whether the Texans would object is an altogether different issue!”

People Ifs World Persons Stills Different Earth Given Issues Feet Land Objects Fit Areas Size Surface Texas Squares Cents Texan

Author:Michael Coren

“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man will poke out his eye to fit in.”

Men Eye Land Fit Blind His Eyes Poke

Author:Caitlín R. Kiernan

“Adolescents are travelers, far from home with no native land, neither children nor adults. They are jet-setters who fly from one country to another with amazing speed. Sometimes they are four years old, an hour later they are twenty-five. They don't really fit anywhere. There's a yearning for place, a search for solid ground.”

Years Children Country Sometimes Home Hours Five Four Land Fit Adults Twenties Speed Native Four Years Yearning Traveler Jet Twenty Five Native Land

Book:Reviving Ophelia

Source: Reviving Ophelia

“Truth and fact are old-fashioned and out-of-date, my friends, fit only for the dull and vulgar to live by. Appearance, not reality, is what the clever dog grasps at in these clever days. We spurn the dull-brown solid earth; we build our lives and homes in the fair-seeming rainbow-land of shadow and chimera.”

Facts Home Reality Earth Our Lives Land Dog Fit My Friends Shadow Fairs Appearance Clever Dull Brown Live By Rainbow Old Fashioned Vulgar Seeming Chimera

Book:Clocks

Source: Clocks

“Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit; All with me's meet that I can fashion fit.”

Ifs I Can Politics Land Fashion Birth Fit Let Me Greed Wit

Book:King Lear

Source: King Lear

“When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.”

Men Sea Land Fit Sea Life Land And Sea

Book:The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished

Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished