#inhabit

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

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One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#does #fatherland #inhabit #inhabits #language

China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#big country #china #chinese #country #inhabited

The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled. ↗

— Ida B. Wells

#degree #foundation #government #inhabitants #law

Russia contains one fourth of the inhabitants of all Europe, and one half of the entire number of Israelites. ↗

— Isaac Mayer Wise

#entire #europe #fourth #half #inhabitants

It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today. ↗

— Barack Obama

#begun #better #bit #blood #children

In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire, brought under one government a quarter of the earth and its inhabitants. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#british empire #brought #controlled #earth #empire

Portugal is a high hill with a white watch tower on it flying signal flags. It is apparently inhabited by one man who lives in a long row of yellow houses with red roofs, and populated by sheep who do grand acts of balancing on the side of the hill. ↗

— Richard H. Davis

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The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#cells #community #inhabitants #innumerable #made

It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil. ↗

— James Smithson

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