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May you find great value in these Geography quotes and sayings.
Geography has made us neighbors.
History has made us friends.
Economics has made us partners,
and necessity has made us allies.
Those whom God has so joined together,
let no man put asunder.
- John F. Kennedy
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One of the greatest titles we can have is "old friend."
We never appreciate how important old friends are until we are older.
The problem is we need to start our old friendships when we are young.
We then have to nurture and grow those friendships over our middle age
when a busy life and changing geographies
can cause us to neglect those friends.
Today is the day to invest in those people
we hope will call us "old friend" in the years to come.
- Grant Fairley
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
Majority rule only works if you're also
considering individual rights,
because you can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
- Anais Nin
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis"
is composed of two characters.
One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy
Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis
The mystery of the beginning
of all things is insoluble by us;
and I for one, must be content to remain an agnostic.
- Charles Darwin
There are as many pillows of illusion
as flakes in a snow-storm.
We wake from one dream into another dream.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown
is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
It is well to remember that the
entire population of the universe,
with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
- Andrew J. Holmes
You can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
What is the Sound of One Hand Clapping?
- Traditional Zen Koan
The function of prayer is not to influence God,
but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret:
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
This isn't a rehearsal or a practice life.
This is your real life - your one and only real life.
There are no retakes - no second chances.
Begin now - live full out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
- Albert Einstein
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
- Henry David Thoreau
The essence of being human is that one
does not seek perfection.
- George Orwell
One who is too insistent on his own views,
finds few to agree with him.
- Lao Tzu
To acquire knowledge, one must study;
but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
- Marilyn vos Savant
The highest and most beautiful things in life
are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but,
if one will, are to be lived.
- Soren Kierkegaard
All progress is precarious, and the solution
of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Each one of us has our own perspective
on everything we see in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Joy increases and suffering decreases
as one masters the distinction between events
and one's feelings about those events.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One of the surest ways to cause
yourself great suffering
is to insist upon being right -
to demand that all others view life
exactly as you view it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
The fox has many tricks.
The hedgehog has but one.
But that is the best of all.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
As long as one keeps searching, the answers come.
- Joan Baez
Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off
a portion of one's being,
but by integration of the contraries.
- Carl Jung
Decide questions without regard for tradition -
one way or the other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When angry, count to ten before you speak.
If very angry, count to one hundred.
- Thomas Jefferson
An instructed and intelligent people
are always more decent and orderly
than an ignorant and stupid one.
- Adam Smith
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
One can flow harmoniously with the River -
or one can struggle fearfully against the River -
and the River just flows.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be that self which one truly is.
- Soren Kierkegaard
There is only one time that is important - NOW!
It is the most important time because
it is the only time that we have any power.
- Leo Tolstoy
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent
of what nature has revealed to us.
- Albert Einstein
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
- Helen Keller
Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whenever you're in conflict with someone,
there is one factor that can make the difference
between damaging your relationship and deepening it.
That factor is attitude.
- William James
Society is a masked ball,
where every one hides his real character,
and reveals it by hiding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
Mere tolerance has given place to a sentiment of brotherhood
between sincere men of all denominations.
- Helen Keller
It is impossible to begin to learn
that which one thinks one already knows.
- Epictetus
In the practice of tolerance,
one's enemy is the best teacher.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Hatred burns the one who hates.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Words are a lens to focus one's mind.
- Ayn Rand
The final delusion is the belief
that one has lost all delusions.
- Maurice Chapelain
How is it that one rails against that
which is nearly a certainty?
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor,
nor should life rest on a single hope.
- Epictetus
The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self,
can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius
Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I had three chairs in my house;
one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
- Henry David Thoreau
One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself,
but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.
- George Orwell
Never be fooled into believing that
there is one speck out of order.
- Byron Katie
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.
- Grace Hopper
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