#land

The Navy's paid for you to go through school, and then they need doctors to go out and take care of people who are in various different parts of the world. I decided to pay back my time first as an undersea medical officer. I was stationed in Scotland. ↗

— Laurel Clark

#care #decided #different #different parts #doctors

Neither can men, by the same principles, be considered as lands, goods, or houses, among possessions. It is necessary that all property should be inferiour to its possessor. But how does the slave differ from his master, but by chance? ↗

— Thomas Clarkson

#chance #considered #differ #does #goods

Churchill knew the importance of peace, and he also knew the price of it. Churchill finally got his voice, of course. He stressed strategy, but it was his voice that armed England at last with the old-fashioned moral concepts of honor and duty, justice and mercy. ↗

— Suzanne Fields

#armed #churchill #concepts #course #duty

The city is as large as Seville or Cordova; its streets, I speak of the principal ones, are very wide and straight; some of these, and all the inferior ones, are half land and half water, and are navigated by canoes. ↗

— Hernando Cortes

#half #i #inferior #land #large

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me. ↗

— John Cleese

#being #bland #businessman #comes #cruel

England is a fairly envious little country and it's embodied in the press. They don't like anyone being more distinguished than they are. ↗

— John Cleese

#being #country #distinguished #embodied #england

For me, the great problem growing up in England was that I had a very narrow concept of what God can be, and it was damn close to an old man with a beard. ↗

— John Cleese

#close #concept #damn #england #god

You take a vacation to a place like Thailand and you're ready for the excitement of something new and foreign. But when you're working 14-hour days, all you want is something familiar to ground you. And there's just nothing there. ↗

— Ed Helms

#excitement #familiar #foreign #ground #just

I think it's because in America you always get the sense that if you fail, you can just pack up your things and go somewhere else and try again. But in England, it's so geographically small that if somebody succeeds here, it reduces your chances of succeeding. ↗

— John Cleese

#always #america #because #chances #else

We are at last on the high lands of Mexico, the districts which at least three different races have chosen to settle in, neglecting the fertile country below. ↗

— Edward Burnett Tylor

#chosen #country #different #districts #fertile