"The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city."

Geography, Observation, Earth, Science

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"Ghana, a land full of Gold! Africa, a land full of resources!"

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

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"Dr. David Livingstone left the Island of Zanzibar in March, 1866."

Henry Morton Stanley, Welsh Explorer

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"It was very clear that this was a very, very old site. There were remains of sod walls. Fishermen assumed it was an old Indian site. Bu Indians didn't use that kind of buildings and houses."

Helge Ingstad, Norwegian Explorer

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"Again and again, to be sure, on the way to America, and under many other circumstances, man has passed through the most adverse climates and has survived, but he has flourished and waxed strong only in certain zones."

Ellsworth Huntington, American Educator

Geography, America, Circumstances, Man

"A journey of four hundred and thirty miles can be made in any part of the United States, but in Turkey it takes as many days."

Ellsworth Huntington, American Educator

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"Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks."

Ada Louise Huxtable, American Critic

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"In America the most widespread type of forest is the evergreen coniferous woodland of the north."

Ellsworth Huntington, American Educator

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"It was raining in the small, mountainous country of Llamedos. It was always raining in Llamedos. Rain was the country's main export. It had rain mines."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"Geologists are rapidly becoming convinced that the mammals spread from their central Asian point of origin largely because of great variations in climate."

Ellsworth Huntington, American Educator

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"There isn't a parallel of latitude but thinks it would have been the equator if it had had its rights."

Mark Twain, American Author

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"The man who thinks his wife his baby his house his horse his dog and himself severely unequalled is almost sure to be a good-humored person."

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"The longing for certainty ... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion."

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"Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?"

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"Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel."

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"Beware how you take away hope from another human being."

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"The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn."

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"Ghana, a land full of Gold! Africa, a land full of resources!"

"Dr. David Livingstone left the Island of Zanzibar in March, 1866."

"It was very clear that this was a very, very old site. There were remains of sod walls. Fishermen assumed it was an old Indian site. Bu Indians didn't use that kind of buildings and houses."

"Again and again, to be sure, on the way to America, and under many other circumstances, man has passed through the most adverse climates and has survived, but he has flourished and waxed strong only in certain zones."

"A journey of four hundred and thirty miles can be made in any part of the United States, but in Turkey it takes as many days."

"Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks."

"In America the most widespread type of forest is the evergreen coniferous woodland of the north."

"It was raining in the small, mountainous country of Llamedos. It was always raining in Llamedos. Rain was the country's main export. It had rain mines."

"Geologists are rapidly becoming convinced that the mammals spread from their central Asian point of origin largely because of great variations in climate."

"There isn't a parallel of latitude but thinks it would have been the equator if it had had its rights."

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"The man who thinks his wife his baby his house his horse his dog and himself severely unequalled is almost sure to be a good-humored person."

"Stupidity often saves a man from going mad."

"A man must get a thing before he can forget it."

"A sense of wrongdoing is an enhancement of pleasure."

"Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum."

"The longing for certainty ... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion."

"Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?"

"Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel."

"Beware how you take away hope from another human being."

"The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn."