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“Forgotten rimes, and college themes, Worm-eaten plans, and embryo schemes; A mass of heterogeneous matter. A chaos dark, nor land nor water.”

Matter Water Dark Plans Land College Mass Chaos Forgotten Planning Theme Schemes Worms Embryos

Book:The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: In Two Volumes

Source: The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: In Two Volumes

“Here in Florida, we have something special we never enjoyed at Disneyland: the blessing of size. There's enough land here to hold all of the ideas and plans we can possibly imagine.”

Ideas Enough Imagine Plans Land Special Blessing Size Enjoyed Florida Something Special Disneyland Epcot

Author:Walt Disney

“...I believed passionately that Communists were a race of horned men who divided their time equally between the burning of Nancy Drew books and the devising of a plan of nuclear attack that would land the largest and most lethal bomb squarely upon the third-grade class of Thomas Jefferson School in Morristown, New Jersey.”

Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“The sceptics, a kind of nomads, despising all settled culture of the land, broke up from time to time all civil society. Fortunately their number was small, and they could not prevent the old settlers from returning to cultivate the ground afresh, though without any fixed plan or agreement.”

Kind Culture Numbers Plans Land Broken Broke Fixed Agreement Skepticism Civil Society Nomad Broke Up Settlers Sceptic

Book:Critique of Pure Reason: In Commemoration of the Centenary of Its First Publication

Source: Critique of Pure Reason: In Commemoration of the Centenary of Its First Publication

“Like the Roman town grid, the New York plan was laid down on largely empty land, a city designed in advance of being inhabited; if the Romans consulted the heavens for guidance in this effort, the city fathers of New York consulted the banks.”

Ifs Father Heaven Effort Cities Plans Land New York Empty Towns Guidance Grids

Author:Richard Sennett

“Rather than setting property taxes on the value of land and improvements, I'd advocate a plan to set rates based on land values across the entire neighborhood.”

Values Plans Land Taxes Property Rate Improvement Setting Settings Neighborhood Property Taxes

Author:Mark Noble

“We never had planned to hijack a ship. We never thought of any war plans outside the Palestinian lands. We wished that the program had not failed and then the warriors could have achieved their goals.”

War Goal Plans Land Program Ships Warrior Palestinian War Plans

Author:Abu Abbas

“The important thing about travel in foreign lands is that it breaks the speech habits and makes you blab less, and breaks the habitual space-feeling because of different village plans and different landscapes. It is less important that there are different mores, for you counteract these with your own reaction-formations.”

Important Different Feelings Space Break Plans Society Land Habit Travel Speech Important Things Reactions Landscape Village Formation Tourism Habitual Travel And Tourism Foreign Lands

Book:Five years

Source: Five years

“There are compelling reasons to implement a true America First immigration plan, starting with border security. We are a land of immigrants. Immigration, with assimilation, has generally been good for America.”

Firsts Reason America Plans Land Security Starting Immigration Borders Immigrants Compelling Assimilation Border Security Compelling Reason

Author:Niger Innis

“I was attracted to the direct connection with history that land surveyors experience in the form of plans, field notes, and from surveying monuments from decades or even centuries in the past.”

Past Form Plans Land Century Fields Direct Connections Notes Decades Monument Surveyors Land Surveyor

Author:Mark Mason

“Never compromise a dream. Do what you must. The fears, beasts, and mountains before you are part of the plan. Stepping stones to a promised land. To a time and place that is so much closer than even you expect. So don't let your eyes deceive you, for even as you read these words, your ship swiftly approaches.”

Inspirational Dream Eye Fear Plans Land Mountain Approach Stones Ships Compromise Beast Deceiving Stepping Stones Promised Land Never Compromise

Book:Notes from the Universe: New Perspectives from an Old Friend

Source: Notes from the Universe: New Perspectives from an Old Friend