The most adventurous thing I've done is learn how to fly a helicopter in the Philippines. One night we landed on a beach and slept on it.
The ethnic differences among Filipinos are very real. The paucity of arable land, for instance, explains the industry of the Ilokanos and the Cebuanos.
Personally, I regard myself as an intellectual 'rebel,' kicking against the 'old colonialism-imperialism paradigm' which has landed Africa in a conundrum.
A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne.
Although most Americans believed in Manifest Destiny, few could agree on exactly which lands the United States was supposed to govern.
The fact is: It's true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it.
Me, I walk along and feel quietly defensive, a recluse in the Land of We. That's quite the loaded word, 'we.'
Rainforest land is mistakenly valued solely for the worth of its timber, mining and oil resources by short-sighted corporations and governments.
American foreign policy and military might have opened an opportunity for the Gospel in the land of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
On this land, Muslims, Christians and Jews can coexist together, as they have - as they had for the - for hundreds of years in the framework of a democratic state.
Indeed it is very hard, when we have let the King's subjects have so much of our lands for so little value.
Christians and Jews alike are the new exiles of the contemporary world, struggling with how to sing the Lord's song in a strange land.
The religious doctrine of traditional Judaism entails the acceptance of the nationhood of the Jewish people and the everlasting sanctity of the Land of Israel for them.
Whenever, then, the usual and ordinary rate of the profits of agricultural stock, and all the outgoings belonging to the cultivation of land, are together equal to the value of the whole produce, there can be no rent.
The brave man, indeed, calls himself lord of the land, through his iron, through his blood.
I would not be a Moses to lead you into the Promised Land, because if I could lead you into it, someone else could lead you out of it.
That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.
To try to really land a spacecraft really on another world is really difficult, and if we lose that ability, it's going to be heartbreaking.
I started singing when I was 18 and landed my first record deal with RCA when I was 26 after a lot of grafting singing in pubs and clubs.
America is a land where a citizen will cross the ocean to fight for democracy - and wont cross the street to vote in a national election.
As one of the country's largest land-grant universities, Ohio State must play a critical role in moving our country forward.
