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A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre. -- Robert Ballard
Sin is geographical. -- Bertrand Russell
Italy is a geographical expression. -- Klemens von Metternich
We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage. -- Dan Miller
Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression. -- Otto von Bismarck
India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator. -- Winston Churchill
Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England - Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation. -- Charles Stewart Parnell
Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room. -- Mahmoud Darwish
It is not differences of opinion; it is geographical lines, rivers, and mountains which divide State from State, and make different nations of mankind. -- Jefferson Davis
The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community. -- Aaron Swartz
The question of religion was a matter for each individual's conscience, and in a great many cases was the outcome of birth or residence in a certain geographical area. -- James Larkin
In other words, we are interested in the anatomical and mental characteristics of men living under the same biological, geographical, and social environment, and as determined by their past. -- Franz Boas
Local politics, like everything else, are not what they used to be. But the fact is that our political system - like our physical existence - still breaks down along geographical lines. -- Eric Alterman
Over the years, Good Deeds Day has annually gained greater popularity, spreading beyond geographical boundaries to include many more countries worldwide. International Good Deeds Day has become a global annual tradition of giving. -- Shari Arison
If you care to define the South as a poor, rural region with lousy race relations, that South survives only in geographical shreds and patches and most Southerners don't live there any more. -- John Shelton Reed
One very important aspect of our contemporary musical culture - some might say the supremely important aspect - is its extension in the historical and geographical senses to a degree unknown in the past. -- George Crumb
These sites have torn down the geographical divide that once prevented long distance social relationships from forming, allowing instant communication and connections to take place and a virtual second life to take hold for its users. -- Mike Fitzpatrick
We do not discuss the anatomical, physiological, and mental characteristics of man considered as an individual; but we are interested in the diversity of these traits in groups of men found in different geographical areas and in different social classes. -- Franz Boas
This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults. -- Haile Selassie
I really believe in the way the energy can consolidate in certain geographical spots. You can find it in a lot of different places, beautiful natural spots, or if you look at Islam or Judaism or Christianity, these ideas of holy places. -- Conor Oberst
Governments can no longer control 100 percent of the story. Time and geographical boundaries disappear. In places like China and all over the Middle East, social-media outlets are being used to expose and hold accountable public officials that don't want to be held accountable for corruption and human rights abuses. -- Amy Jo Martin
When a number of crimes - for instance, burglaries - can be linked to the same offender, police often plot the locations on a map. The art of finding the location of the criminal's home based on the crime sites is a key objective in what is known as geographical profiling. -- Daniel Goldstein
I know there are lots of positives in the evolution of technology, but I also think it will be responsible for the end of a unique character, of a specific kind of geographical culture. The world is getting so small, and mass production is getting so big. Everything is in danger of becoming the same. -- Laura Marling
It is dangerous when you start calling people from one part of the world terrorists or fanatic, and you reduce them to some abstract notion. If evil has a geographical place, and if the evil has a name, that is the beginning of fascism. Real life is not this way. You have fanatics and narrow-minded people everywhere. -- Marjane Satrapi
I tap danced for ten years before I began to understand people don't make musicals anymore. All I wanted to do was be at MGM working for Arthur Freed or Gene Kelly or Vincent Minelli. Historical and geographical constraints made this impossible. Slowly but surely the pen became mightier than the double pick-up time step with shuffle. -- Zadie Smith
I have a very awesome seat in the house every time I play. When the lights come up, and the sound turns on, I'm playing for a roomful of human beings. And geographical and political borders just all dissolve. And we unite through rhythm inhalation. I mean, I'm so grateful that, you know, audiences around the world connect to English music. -- Jason Mraz
Italy is a geographical expression. -- Klemens von Metternich
My religion has no geographical limits. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Italy is only a geographical expression. -- Klemens von Metternich
The profoundest distances are never geographical. -- John Fowles
Soul has no musical geographical or racial boundaries. -- Roy Ayers
Morality knows nothing of geographical boundaries, or distinctions of race. -- Herbert Spencer
It's like geographical humor. You just don't get it unless you were there. -- Melina Marchetta
The end of the [geographical] exploration is the beginning of the [missionary] enterprise. -- David Livingstone
Heaven and hell are not geographical, they are psychological, they are your psychology. -- Rajneesh
The geographical isolation and lack of television made world happenings and problems seem remote. -- Paul D. Boyer
Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker. -- Mary Douglas
Regardless of geographical region or culture gardening is perhaps the most common and shared experience of Nature. -- S. Kelley Harrell
Online learning can be a lifeline to those who have obstacles, such as geographical distances or physical disabilities. -- Paul Levinson
Make men work together show them that beyond their differences and geographical boundaries there lies a common interest. -- Jean Monnet
I believe in the power of great art to transcend geographical boundaries, political differences and even the restrictions of time. -- Armand Hammer
Our lives are bound by physical limits, familial ties, political conditions, and geographical restrictions. Individual freedom takes us beyond them all. -- Ai Weiwei
Every production network has spatiality - the particular geographical configuration and extent of its component elements and the links between them. -- Peter Dicken
The Great Commission to go into all the world is not only geographical, but must include every field, profession, discipline, sport, etc. -- Rick Joyner
Look at the US, look at Russia. Both of these countries are immense geographical territories. But, nowadays, immense territories amount to nothing! -- Paul Virilio
It's really amazing that two people from such different backgrounds and geographical origins ever got together. That was perhaps part of the attraction. -- Desi Arnaz
In this shrinking world, it is futile to seek safety behind geographical barriers. Real security will be found only in law and in justice. -- Harry S. Truman
Bob Dylan tends not to have geographical or chronological markers that tie a song to any specific context, so they stay alive, stay relevant. -- Richard F. Thomas
I have discovered three things which know no geographical borders - classical music, American jazz, and applause as the sign of the public's favor. -- Jascha Heifetz
India has the right, if she only knew, of becoming the predominant partner by reason of her numbers, geographical position and culture inherited for ages. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I'm from the South, so while I personally find it impossible to live there, I still have a fondness for it as a geographical region. -- Alan Ball
One might almost say that the history of geographical discovery, properly so called, begins with Captain Cook, the motive of whose voyages was purely scientific curiosity. -- Joseph Jacobs
Most of the monsters... are based on some sort of mythology. Every culture and even some geographical areas have monsters and mythology that is their own. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
So imagine a world 6 degrees warmer. It's not going to recognize geographical boundaries. It's not going to recognize anything. So agriculture regions today will be wiped out. -- Steven Chu
Hindu is a geographical identity, or at the most a cultural one - not a religion. There is no set of beliefs that everyone has to adhere to. -- Jaggi Vasudev
Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of culture to which I have referred. -- George Crumb
Men should continue to fight, but they should fight for things worth while, not for imaginary geographical lines, racial prejudices and private greed draped in the color's of patriotism. -- Albert Einstein
Dance, like music, knows no geographical boundaries, no linguistic barriers and no racial divisions. All walls crumble where art is concerned. It is a great unifying and integrating force. -- Vempati Chinna Satyam
In the appointments to the great offices of the government, my aim has been to combine geographical situation, and sometimes other considerations, with abilities and fitness of known characters. -- George Washington
I grew up all over the world. My father was in the army and was posted to a new place every two and a half years. I have no geographical roots. -- Juliet Stevenson
Men's private self-worlds are rather like our geographical world's seasons, storm, and sun, deserts, oases, mountains and abysses, the endless-seeming plateaus, darkness and light, and always the sowing and the reaping. -- Faith Baldwin
We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates - which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing. -- Narendra Modi
But foreign should not be defined in geographical terms. Then it would have no meaning except territorial or tribal patriotism. To me that alone is foreign which is foreign to truth, foreign to Atman. -- Ram Swarup
Who are we, this government or this country, to redefine the term marriage that has meant one man and one woman across cultures, across ages, across geographical barriers since before state and religion themselves? -- Tim Loughton
I suppose it's fair to say that I am interested in the invention of self or selves. We're all born into certain circumstances with particular physical traits, unique developmental experiences, geographical and historical contexts. -- Sarah Jones
Moreover, all our knowledge of organic remains teaches us, that species have a definite existence, and a centralization in geological time as well as in geographical space, and that no species is repeated in time. -- Edward Forbes

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