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• Matt Mason must be declared the poet laureate of the Midwest! No other native son celebrates the overlooked America, its unsung citizens (from the anonymous poets to the part-time English teachers), and its expansive indigenous landscape, as well as he does. Mason's poetry is humorous when he wants to be quirky, heartbreaking when he wants to be eloquent, and though he moves effortlessly into other moods and geographies, he always returns to his first and most enduring love (and to what he knows best)-his homeland.

  Rigoberto Gonzalez

  Teacher, Humorous, Moving

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• I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.

  Randy Newman

  Meteorology, Cosmology

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• In America there is really very little knowledge of the literature of the rest of the world. Of the literature of Latin America, yes, But that's not all that different in inspiration from that of America, or of Europe. One must go further. You don't even have to go too far in terms of geography - you can start with the Native Americans and listen to their poetry.

  Chinua Achebe

  Latin, Inspiration, Native American

  Chinua Achebe (2012). “There Was a Country: A Memoir”, p.51, Penguin

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• Canadian-American relations for many years did not develop spontaneously. The example of accord provided by our two countries did not come about merely through the happy circumstance of geography. It is compounded of one part proximity and nine parts good will and common sense.

  Harry S. Truman

  Country, Two, Years

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1963). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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• To make revolution in Korea we must know Korean history and geography as well as the customs of the Korean people. Only then is it possible to educate our people in a way that suits them and to inspire in them an ardent love for their native place and their motherland.

  Kim Il-sung

  Korea, People, Inspire

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• I'm thankful for the work that feminists like Gloria Steinem have done. I am a feminist, but the geography for women today is vastly different than it was in the '60s.

  Amber Heard

  Feminist, Different, Amber

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• Having lasted for 4,000 years, the use of nature's materials to express ideas about nature may be expected to continue. The best garden designs are produced with an awareness of the art, science, history, geography, philosophy, social habits and construction techniques of their period.

  Tom Turner

  Art, Philosophy, Garden

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• Many adults, whether consciously or unconsciously, find it beneath their adult dignity to do anything as childish as read a book, think a thought, or get an idea. Adults are rarely embarrased at having forgotten what little algebra or geography they once learned

  Isaac Asimov

  Book, Thinking, Ideas

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• The cell, too, has a geography, and its reactions occur in colloidal apparatus, of which the form, and the catalytic activity of its manifold surfaces, must efficiently contribute to the due guidance of chemical reactions.

  Frederick Gowland Hopkins

  Cells, Guidance, Chemical Reactions

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• Columbus real achievement was managing to cross the ocean successfully in both directions. Though an accomplished enough mariner, he was not terribly good at a great deal else, especially geography, the skill that would seem most vital in an explorer.

  Bill Bryson

  Real, Ocean, Discovery

  Bill Bryson (2010). “At Home: A Short History of Private Life”, p.254, Random House

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• To build a theory of international relations on accidents of geography and history is dangerous.

  Kenneth Waltz

  Geography And History, Theory, Relation

  Kenneth N. Waltz (2013). “Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis”, p.107, Columbia University Press

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• Michael [Jackson] reconstructed his face and deconstructed the African features into a spooky European geography of fleshly possibilities, and yet what we couldn't deny, that even as his face got whiter and whiter his music got Blacker and Blacker. His soul got more deeply rooted in the existential agony and the profound social grief that Black people are heir to.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Grief, Agony, Profound

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Patriotic, Eye, Usa

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.465, Library of America

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• An art that heals and protects its subject is a geography of scars.

  Wendell Berry

  Art, Scar, Protect

  Wendell Berry (2010). “What Are People For?: Essays”, p.7, Counterpoint Press

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• There are stories, like maps that agree... too consistent among too many languages and histories to be only wishful thinking.... It is always a hidden place, the way into it is not obvious, the geography is as much spiritual as physical. If you should happen upon it, your strongest certainty is not that you have discovered it but returned to it. In a single great episode of light, you remember everything.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Spiritual, Thinking, Remembers Everything

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Against the Day”, p.193, Penguin

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• Unless the Arab states give Israel formal recognition, within secure, recognised and mutually agreed boundaries, as a permanent feature of the geography and politics of the Middle East. But if Israel is to obtain this recognition, she must, in a settlement, put an end to the territorial occupation which she has maintained since the war of 1967; the nine members of the European Community have declared that this is an essential element in a settlement. On behalf of the British Government I underline that need today.

  Anthony Crosland

  War, Government, Israel

  Speech to the UN General Assembly, October 5, 1976.

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• You know, we live here in America and sometimes don't understand the realities of geography and demographics in Eastern Europe.

  Martin Dempsey

  Reality, Sometimes, Eastern

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Oh I'm in love with the janitor's boy, And the janitor's boy loves me; He's going to hunt for a desert isle In our geography.

  Nathalia Crane

  Boys, Desert, Isle

  Nathalia Crane (1925). “The Janitor's Boy and Other Poems”

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• Let's say I take a picture of the Eiffel Tower in front of the casino in Las Vegas. That type of pattern might suggest I'm just a tourist. But if my next one is of another dam or electrical station, someone might say 'Well, that's kind of strange'. What do the different pieces of the puzzle mean when you put them together? And one of the advantages of geographic profiling in geography is a common denominator for so many different types of information sources.

  Kim Rossmo

  Mean, Vegas, Together

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I'm a big lover of America. I love the people, but also the weird berms, the strange little high schools tucked away in different places, and just the whole geography and the psycho­logical apparatus of Americans.

  George Saunders

  School, America, People

  "George Saunders Has Written a Weird and Brilliant Novel". Interview with Tim Murphy, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2017.

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• Is it wrong, wanting to be at home with your record collection? It's not like collecting records is like collecting stamps, or beermats, or antique thimbles. There's a whole world in here, a nicer, dirtier, more violent, more peaceful, more colorful, sleazier, more dangerous, more loving world than the world I live in; there is history, and geography, and poetry, and countless other things I should have studied at school, including music.

  Nick Hornby

  Home, School, Should Have

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• Of pure poetry there are two kinds, that which mirrors the beauty of the world in which our bodies are, and that which builds the more mysterious kingdoms where geography ends and fairyland begins, with gods and heroes at war, and the sirens singing still, and Alph going down to the darkness from Xanadu.

  Lord Dunsany

  War, Hero, Two

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• Descriptive anatomy is to physiology what geography is to history, and just as it is not enough to know the typography of a country to understand its history, so also it is not enough to know the anatomy of organs to understand their functions.

  Claude Bernard

  Country, Anatomy And Physiology, Typography

  Claude Bernard (1974). “Lectures on the phenomena of life common to animals and plants”, Charles C Thomas Pub Ltd

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• I'm interested in geography and weather and things like that, and if you don't write love songs, you've gotta go somewhere. I wrote a lot about places because that's what else there was. I had to stop myself from writing more of them.

  Randy Newman

  Song, Writing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The world I grew up in had both a literal and mythological quality. We were on the borders of several worlds - the larger black world bordered us on one side. More distantly, there was the larger white world. We interacted with some, but not others. If you think of it as an internal geography, it is a land, a contested space with these very charged historical, cultural, and emotional borders.

  Margo Jefferson

  Emotional, Thinking, Historical

  Source: therumpus.net

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