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If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nat...

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The truth is, until you know any different, the island is enough.Actually, I know different. And it'...

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God created war so that Americans would learn geography.

Note for Americans and other aliens: Milton Keynes is a new city approximately halfway between Londo...

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Neil GaimanGood Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter

Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography.

The topography of literature, the fact in fiction,is one of my pleasures -- I mean, where the living...

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Paul TherouxGhost Train to the Eastern Star

If one is seeking for Heaven on earth, has slept in geography class.

I was not sorry for loving Charleston or for leaving it. Geography had made me who I was.

Everywhere's been where it is ever since it was first put there. It's called geography.

Love, having no geography, knows no boundaries.

War does one good—it teaches people geography.

Geography is the key, the crucial accident of birth. A piece of protein could be a snail, a sea lion...

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Annie DillardTeaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

Three or four times only in my youth did I glimpse the Joyous Isles, before they were lost to fogs, ...

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This happened back east of course. I've heard that term a lot since coming to this part of the count...

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To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

The South Pacific is not a paradise, in the sense that Eden wasn't either. There are always apples a...

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New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten ...

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John SteinbeckAmerica and Americans and Selected Nonfiction

. . . In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Provi...

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More than ever, I've come to see conspiracy theories as the refuge of those who have lost their natu...

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