Salt of the earth

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Salt of the earth is a phrase that may be:

• English idiom: People who are salt of the earth are decent, dependable and unpretentious.
• "Salt of the Earth (Rolling Stones song)", the closing track to The Rolling Stones' 1968 album, Beggars Banquet.
• One of the metaphors of Salt and Light that occurs in the Sermon on the Mount according to the New Testament
• The title of the film Salt of the Earth (1953 film)
• The title of the film Salt of the Earth: Palestinian Christians in the Northern West Bank (2004 documentary)
• Salting the earth is a similarly-named but entirely different concept.