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• A little instruction in the elements of chartography—a little practice in the use of the compass and the spirit level, a topographical map of the town common, an excursion with a road map—would have given me a fat round earth in place of my paper ghost.

  Mary Antin

  Practice, Use, Elements

  Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.150, Courier Corporation

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• Oh the folly of any mind that would explain God before obeying Him! That would map out the character of God instead of crying, Lord, what wouldst thou have me to do?

  George MacDonald

  Character, Mind, Cry

  George Macdonald (2012). “Unspoken Sermons Series I, II, and III”, p.270, Simon and Schuster

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• But there are certain books I would never put on a Kindle because you want to be able to look at graphs and photos or the footnotes and maps. You can't see that.

  Lisa See

  Book, Looks, Want

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• Reading old travel books or novels set in faraway places, spinning globes, unfolding maps, playing world music, eating in ethnic restaurants, meeting friends in cafes . . . all these things are part of never-ending travel practice, not unlike doing scales on a piano, shooting free-throws, or meditating.

  Phil Cousineau

  Book, Reading, Practice

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• I think baseball owes McGwire a gratitude of thanks for putting baseball back on the map where it should be.

  Jose Canseco

  Baseball, Gratitude, Thinking

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• I wish to put together an imaginary nation. It is my belief that no other nation is possible, or rather, I believe that authors who count take responsibility for a map which is addressed to travellers of the earth, the world, and the spirit. Each issue is composed as a map of this land and this glory, images of our cities and of our politics must join our poetry. I want a nation in which discourse is active and scholarship is understood as it should be, the mode of our understanding and the ground of our derivations.
  -Robin Blaser (June 3, 1967)

  Robin Blaser

  Believe, Responsibility, Issues

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• The brain is not the mind. It is probably impossible to look at a map of brain activity and predict or even understand the emotions, reactions, hopes and desires of the mind.

  David Brooks

  Brain, Mind, Desire

  "Beyond the Brain". Article by David Brooks, www.nytimes.com. June 17, 2013.

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• In the spiritual life it is not necessary to have a complete map of the path in order to begin traveling. On the contrary, having such complete knowledge may actually hinder rather than help the onward march. The deeper secrets of spiritual life are unraveled to those who take risks and who make bold experiments with it. They are not meant for the idler who seeks guarantees at every step. Those who speculate from the shore about the ocean shall know only its surface, but those who would know the depths of the ocean must be willing to plunge into it.

  Meher Baba

  Spiritual, Ocean, Order

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• After all, the past is our only real guide to the future, and historical analogies are instruments for distilling and organizing the past and converting it to a map by which we can navigate.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Real, Past, Historical

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• When someone doesn't show up, the people who wait sometimes tell stories about what might have happened and come to half believe the desertion, the abduction, the accident. Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't--and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we prefer ugly scenarios to the pure unknown. Perhaps fantasy is what you fill up maps with rather than saying that they too contain the unknown.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Believe, People, Worry

  Rebecca Solnit (2006). “A Field Guide to Getting Lost”, p.85, Penguin

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• Plot is a map and I begin with it. It is what made me admire the novels of the 19th century; that the stories are foreshadowed. TheyÕre going someplace.

  John Irving

  Writing, Creative, Plot

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• Google Maps are phenomenal. Yep, ask an Apple user.

  Eric Schmidt

  Technology, Apples, Google

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• Thinking is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting his troops in action.

  Sigmund Freud

  Moving, Thinking, Psychology

  "New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis". Book by Sigmund Freud, transl. by James Strachey, "Anxiety and Instinctual Life" (Lecture 32), 1933.

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• We have hopes and make plans, and if they are dashed or waylaid, we naturally rationalize and redraw the map to locate ourselves anew. Or else we brood and too firmly root. Very few can step forward again and again in what amounts to veritable leaps into the void, where there are no ready holds, where little is familiar, where you get constantly stuck in the thickets of your uncertainties and fears.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Roots, Littles, Void

  Chang-rae Lee (2014). “On Such a Full Sea: A Novel”, p.98, Penguin

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• In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds ways of translating it into supposedly analytical vocabulary.

  Harold Bloom

  Vocabulary, Giving, Psychology

  "Beyond a Common Joy: An Introduction to Shakespearean Comedy". Book by Paul A. Olson, 2008.

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• Alaska is our biggest, buggiest, boggiest state. Texas remains our largest unfrozen state. But mountainous Utah, if ironed out flat, would take up more space on a map than either.

  Edward Abbey

  Texas, Utah, Space

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.57, RosettaBooks

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• I hope to make pictures like I walk in the desert—under a spell, an instinct of motion, a kind of knowing that is essentially indirect and sideways.Of all the things I wondered about on this land, I wondered the hardest about the seduction of certain geographies that feel like home–not by story or blood but merely by their forms and colors.  How our perceptions are our only internal map of the world, how there are places that claim you and places that warn you away.  How you can fall in love with the light.

  Ellen Meloy

  Falling In Love, Home, Light

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• If [God] has made it a law in the nature of man to pursue his own happiness, He has left him free in the choice of place as well as mode, and we may safely call on the whole body of English jurists to produce the map on which nature has traced for each individual the geographical line which she forbids him to cross in pursuit of happiness.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Pursuit Of Happiness, Men, Law

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• If you're going to have a complicated story you must work to a map; otherwise you'll never make a map of it afterwards.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Stories, Complicated, Ifs

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• Gods, religions and national boundaries are absolutely imaginary. They don't tend to exist. As soon as you pull back half a mile and look down at the Earth there are no national boundaries. There aren't even national boundaries when you get down and walk around. They're just imaginary lines we draw on maps. I just get fascinated by people who assume that things that are imaginary have no relevance to their lives.

  Neil Gaiman

  People, Looks, Half

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• Topography displays no favorites; North's as near as West.
  More delicate than the historians' are the map-makers' colors.

  Elizabeth Bishop

  Color, Topography, West

  Elizabeth Bishop (2015). “Poems”, p.5, Macmillan

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• Time and again in this century, the political map of the world was transformed. And ineach instance a new world order came about through the advent of a new tyrant or the outbreak of a bloody global war, or its end.

  George H. W. Bush

  War, Order, Tyrants

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• Sense of place is the sixth sense, an internal compass and map made by memory and spatial perception together.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Memories, Perception, Together

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• Quim," she said, "don't ever try to teach me about good and evil. I've been there, and you've seen nothing but a map.

  Orson Scott Card

  Evil, Trying, Said

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Speaker for the Dead”, p.142, Macmillan

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• I’m free, I think. I shut my eyes and think hard and deep about how free I am, but I can’t really understand what it means. All I know is I’m totally alone. All alone in an unfamiliar place, like some solitary explorer who’s lost his compass and his map. Is this what it means to be free? I don’t know, and I give up thinking about it.

  Haruki Murakami

  Giving Up, Mean, Eye

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Dec 31, 2012

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