#inhabit

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense. ↗

— Henry Miller

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I have accordingly considered it, and now appear not only in obedience to your order, but likewise in behalf of the inhabitants of this town, who have presented another petition, and out of regard to the liberties of the subject. ↗

— James Otis

#another #appear #behalf #considered #i

Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#belong #eternal #eternal world #half #humans

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#basic #breathe #cherish #children #common

Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#cases #civil #each #earth #general

We have forgotten that we have not come to an empty land to inherit it, but we have come to conquer a country from people inhabiting it, that governs it by the virtue of its language and savage culture. ↗

— Moshe Sharett

#conquer #country #culture #empty #forgotten

One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason. ↗

— William Godwin

#consists #distinguished #earth #eminently #gift

Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell. ↗

— Francois Mauriac

#between #children #cruelty #discipline #does

Various Turkish people invaded southwest Asia during the Middle Ages and carved an empire for themselves from lands occupied by the indigenous Semitic and Indo-European inhabitants. ↗

— John Shimkus

#asia #carved #during #empire #indigenous

There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime. ↗

— Maxwell Anderson

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