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"Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps."
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"Up to 80 percent of the fish that we catch spend at least part of their lives in estuaries."

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

"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."

"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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"Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas."
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