Geographic Quotes
61 quotes by 61 authors
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I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to…
— Erma Bombeck
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Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white; rich,…
— Kathleen Blanco
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My interest in science was excited at age nine by an article on astronomy in National Geographic; the author was Donald Menzel of the Harvard…
— Dudley R. Herschbach
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We should distinguish at this point between "government" and "state" ... A government is the consensual organization by which we adjudicate disputes, defend our rights,…
— David Boaz
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If we're successful in Iraq ... we will have struck a major blow right at the heart of the base, if you will, the geographic…
— Dick Cheney
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Physically, the Ventoux is dreadful. Bald, it's the spirit of Dry: Its climate (it is much more an essence of climate than a geographic place)…
— Roland Barthes
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In the Middle East, where populations are growing fast, the world is seeing the first collision between population growth and water supply at the regional…
— Lester R. Brown
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I've been kind of submerged in my own little geographic location for a really long time in Venice Beach
— Amber Tamblyn
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Locale is both a geographic term and the inner sense of being.
— Robert Creeley
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My work cuts through racial, class, geographic, and ethnic separations to directly connect to the heart, mind, and emotion with people.
— Lily Yeh
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Things were here before you and will be here after you're gone. The geographic features, especially, give you a sense of your own place in…
— Tracy Kidder
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The securitisation of mortgages added a new dimension of systemic risk. Financial engineers claimed they were reducing risks through geographic diversification: in fact they were…
— George Soros
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The influence of geographic factors diminishes as technology grows. The character and contour of a terrain may offer opportunities for agriculture, mining, or trade, but…
— Ariel Durant
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Corn is the leading food and feed crop of the United States in geographic range of production, acreage, and quantity of product. The vital importance…
— David F. Houston
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I remember when an editor at the National Geographic promised to run about a dozen of my landscape pictures from a story on the John…
— Galen
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Christianity is usually called a religion. As a religion it has had a wider geographic spread and is more deeply rooted among more peoples than…
— Kenneth Scott Latourette
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I strongly believe that a federal structure based on administrative and geographic lines with strong powers for the federated states will be the best solution…
— Ahmed Chalabi
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Respect and affection for animals, particularly those who share our homes, recognize no geographic borders.
— Nick Clooney
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I love National Geographic. Just when you think you've seen the last lost native tribe, National Geographic will find a new one.
— Sandra Bernhard
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Today when I think about diversity, I actually think about the word 'inclusion.' And I think this is a time of great inclusion. It's not…
— Ginni Rometty
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