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Quotes by Explorer
"Throughout the day no time for memorandums now. Go ahead! Liberty and independence forever."
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"The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry of its farmers, to the successful enterprise of its merchants, and to particular local causes."
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"Farming implements are as cheap in Sydney as in England."
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"The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other."
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"Civilization grew in the beginning from the minute that we had communication - particularly communication by sea that enabled people to get inspiration and ideas from each other and to exchange basic raw materials."
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"I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose."
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"A woman brought her child with an abscess in the lower part of the back, and offered as much corn as she could carry for some medicine; we administered to it of course very cheerfully."
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"A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other."
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"I fear we have shot our bolt - but we have been to Pole and done the longest journey on record."
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"Nova Scotia as a British colony also came into being as another result of these adventurous British expeditions to North America in the reign of James I."
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"We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks beset the channel, we know not; what walls ride over the river, we know not. Ah, well! we may conjecture many things."
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"Dr. David Livingstone left the Island of Zanzibar in March, 1866."
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"We must wake up to the insane reality of our time. We are all irresponsible, unless we demand from the responsible decision makers that modern armaments must no longer be made available to people whose former battle axes and swords our ancestors condemned."
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"There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a Yeti."
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"Alas! Alas! Life is full of disappointments; as one reaches one ridge there is always another and a higher one beyond which blocks the view."
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"It was expected of me that I was to bow to the name of Andrew Jackson... even at the expense of my conscience and judgement. such a thing was new to me, and a total stranger to my principles."
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"The main consideration with those who, possessing some capital, propose to emigrate as the means of improving their condition, is, the society likely to be found in the land fixed on for their future residence."
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"It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert."
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"An insuperable obstacle to rapid transit in Africa is the want of carriers, and as speed was the main object of the Expedition under my command, my duty was to lessen this difficulty as much as possible."
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"The Inhabitants of Carolina, thro' the Richness of the Soil, live an easy and pleasant Life."
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"Nothing escapes the vigilance of the New South Wales police; their reputation is known the world over."
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"The year 1826 was remarkable for the commencement of one of those fearful droughts to which we have reason to believe the climate of New South Wales is periodically subject."
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"I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence."
Will,
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"Surrounded by military airplanes and warships from the world's most civilized and developed nations, we have been denied permission by friendly governments, for reasons of security, to land anywhere, but in the tiny, and still neutral, Republic of Djibouti."
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"All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book."
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"However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day."
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