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inhabit

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To live or dwell in; to occupy, as a place of settled residence; as, wild beasts inhabit the forest; men inhabit cities and houses.

To have residence in a place; to dwell; to live; to abide.

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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

I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions. Václav Havel

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

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it. Abraham Lincoln

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols. Ralph Waldo Emerson

They build houses but shall not inhabit them. Latin Proverb

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