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Geographer Inspirational Quotes (1139)

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A very populous city can rarely, if ever, be well governed.
Aristotle
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My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma
Franz Boas
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Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.
Aristotle
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No greater glory can be handed down than to conquer the barbarian, to recall the savage and the pagan to civility, to draw the ignorant within the orbit of reason, and to fill with reverence for divinity the godless and the ungodly.
Richard Hakluyt
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Shall I tell you what supported me through all those years of exile among a people whose language I could not understand and whose attitude towards me we always uncertain and often hostile? It was this: Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.
David Livingstone
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Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, or the arts are clearly of an atrabilious temperament and some of them to such an extent as to be affected by diseases caused by black bile?
Aristotle
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The wise man knows of all things, as far as possible, although he has no knowledge of each of them in detail
Aristotle
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Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.
Aristotle
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Patience is so like fortitude that she seems either her sister or her daughter.
Aristotle
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Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning.
Aristotle
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Neither old people nor sour people seem to make friends easily for there is little that is pleasant in them.
Aristotle
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Mars, therefore, is not only uninhabited by intelligent beings such as Mr. Lowell postulates, but is absolutely uninhabitable.
Alfred Russel Wallace
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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
Aristotle
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Even that some people try deceived me many times ... I will not fail to believe that somewhere, someone deserves my trust.
Aristotle
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Our actions determine our dispositions.
Aristotle
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Money is a guarantee that we may have what we want in the future. Though we need nothing at the moment it insures the possibility of satisfying a new desire when it arises.
Aristotle
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Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
Aristotle
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It seems that ambition makes most people wish to be loved rather than to love others.
Aristotle
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The avarice of mankind is insatiable.
Aristotle
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Our virtues are voluntary (and in fact we are in a sense ourselves partly the cause of our moral dispositions, and it is our having a certain character that makes us set up an end of a certain kind), it follows that our vices are voluntary also they are voluntary in the same manner as our virtues.
Aristotle
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Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.
Aristotle
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Until I discover the meaning of this sentence, I will neither eat nor sleep. My dear uncle- I began. Nor you either, he added.
Jules Verne
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Education and morals make the good man, the good statesman, the good ruler.
Aristotle
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Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure.
Aristotle
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