Jimmy Buffett
Musician, Author
"Without geography you're nowhere."
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Geography
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Napoleon Bonaparte
Military Leader, Emperor
"If you know a country's geography, you can understand and predict its foreign policy."
Joseph Brodsky
Poet, Essayist
"Geography blended with time equals destiny."
Terry Pratchett
Author
"Everywhere's been where it is ever since it was first put there. It's called geography."
Kurt Vonnegut
Novelist, Satirist
"George W. Bush has gathered around him upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography."
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"[L]ove, having no geography, knows no boundaries."
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"The policies of all powers are inherent in their geography."
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"In the U.K., we have the best geography teachers in the world!"
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"The formidable power of geography determines the character and performance of a people."
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"It must be hard for humans, forever floundering through inconvenient geography. Humans are always lost. It's a basic characteristic. It explains a lot about them."
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"If as individuals we can improve the geography only slightly, if at all, perhaps the more appropriately scaled subject for reshaping is ourselves."
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"A bibliophile has approximately the same relationship to literature as a philatelist to geography."
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"Most of these - most people's stage personas are created out of the flotsam and jetsam of their internal geography."
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"The biggest difference between England and America is that England has history, while America has geography."
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"Making sure that the geography and timelines work is always the hardest part of writing. But you owe it to the readers to get it right!"
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