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Quotes by Explorer
"It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations."
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"The rain, which had continued yesterday and last night, ceased this morning. We then proceeded, and after passing two small islands about ten miles further, stopped for the night at Piper's landing, opposite another island."
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"In this eventful period the colony of New South Wales is already far advanced."
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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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"He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest."
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"On the subject of emigration, it is not my intention to dwell at any length."
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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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"In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy."
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"The rest of my work, besides sketching and keeping a diary, which was the most troublesome of all, consisted in making geological and zoological collections."
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"I was afterwards sorry for this, though, if I ever travel again, I shall trust to none but natives, as the climate of Africa is too trying to foreigners."
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"All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book."
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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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"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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"Two days after moving we recommended ourselves to God, Our Lord, and fled, hoping that, although it was late in the season and the fruits of the tunas were giving out, by remaining in the field we might still get over a good portion of the land."
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"The dog is almost human in its demand for living interest, yet fatally less than human in its inability to foresee."
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"We moved leisurely towards Mount Foster, on the 22nd, and arrived opposite to it a little before sunset."
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"Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy."
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"We took a straight course up the great snow ridge."
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"These natives are a very good people; for when they saw that I would not remain, they supposed that I was afraid of their bows; and, taking their arrows, the broke them in pieces and threw them into the fire."
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"What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public."
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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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"In a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great."
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"One of the greatest objections which families have to New South Wales, is their apprehension of the moral effects that are likely to overwhelm them by bad example, and for which no success in life could compensate."
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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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"My first occupation was to map the country."
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"I go on expeditions for the same reason an estate agent sells houses - to pay the bills."
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"In my experience, it is rarer to find a really happy person in a circle of millionaires than among vagabonds."
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"Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it."
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"Cows, after leaving the low lands near the coast, are found to be plentiful everywhere, and to produce milk in small quantities, from which butter is made."
Cows,
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