"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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"America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth's skeleton."

Ellsworth Huntington, American Educator

Geography, America, Earth

"Up to 80 percent of the fish that we catch spend at least part of their lives in estuaries."

Jim Gerlach, American Politician

Geography, Fish

"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

Geography, Truth, Humor, Nature, Wisdom

"A few hours' ride brought us to the banks of the river Kansas."

Francis Parkman, American Historian

Geography, Banks

"Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression."

Otto Von Bismarck, German Leader

Geography, Europe, Expression

"In the islands of the Aegean Sea, every island is full of graves."

James Theodore Bent, English Explorer

Geography, Islands, Sea

"How can the mind take hold of such a country? Generations of invaders have tried, but they remain in exile. The important towns they build are only retreats, their quarrels the malaise of men who cannot find their way home. India knows of their trouble. She knows of the whole world's trouble, to its uttermost depth. She calls "Come" through her hundred mouths, through objects ridiculous and august. But come to what? She has never defined. She is not a promise, only an appeal."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

Geography, Land, Conflict, History, Awareness

"On the 28th the ship's company received two months pay in advance, and on the following morning we worked out to St. Helen's, where we were obliged to anchor."

William Bligh, British Soldier

Geography, Company, Months

"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

Geography, Rights, Imagination

"Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here."

Dan Quayle, American Vice President

Geography, Right, States, United

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"The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books."

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"The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God."

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"Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding."

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

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"America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth's skeleton."

"Up to 80 percent of the fish that we catch spend at least part of their lives in estuaries."

"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."

"A few hours' ride brought us to the banks of the river Kansas."

"Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression."

"In the islands of the Aegean Sea, every island is full of graves."

"On the 28th the ship's company received two months pay in advance, and on the following morning we worked out to St. Helen's, where we were obliged to anchor."

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

"Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here."

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"Friendship is the pleasing game of interchanging praise."

"Apology is only egotism wrong side out."

"He has half the deed done who has made a beginning."

"It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God."

"But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold."

"Certainty generally is illusion and repose is not the destiny of man."

"The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books."

"The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God."

"Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding."

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