"I wisely started with a map."
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"If you read people like say Bruce Blair one of the leading, most sober, knowledgeable specialists, he says, look, [Donald Trump] statements are all over the map, but his personality is frightening, he's a complete megalomaniac."
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"War on nations changes maps. War on poverty maps change."
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"The map isn't always the territory, and you have to kind of walk through it to get a feel for it."
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"How satisfying it is to leave a mark on a blank surface. To make a map of my movement - no matter how temporary."
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"Women, are a map, Avik. You've got to understand their longitude, and how much latitude you can take."
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"Art is the act of navigating without a map."
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"None of us see the world as it is but as we are, as our frames of reference, or maps, define the territory."
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""Study Bible" is the expression used for Bibles that include significant explanatory notes, usually at the bottom of the page, sometimes in the margins. Often a Study Bible will also include some brief articles, photographs of geographical and archaeological sites, fairly extensive maps, and charts that summarize a lot of information."
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"Girls aren't very good at keeping maps in their brains", said Edmund, "That's because we've got something in them", replied Lucy."
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"That's the worst of girls," said Edmund to Peter and the Dwarf. "They never can carry a map in their heads." "That's because our heads have something inside them," said Lucy."
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"But another thing I know is this — we can’t steer ourselves out of this crisis by heading in the same, disastrous direction. We can’t change direction with a new driver who wants to follow the same old map. And that’s what this election is all about."
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"I'm afraid of taking steps that are not on the map, but by taking those steps despite my fears, I have a much more interesting life."
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"Wars are Spinach. Life in general is the tough part. In war all you have to do is not worry and know how to read a map and co-ordinates."
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"A language is a map of our failures"
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"Keep in mind that a language is both a map of the world and its own world, with its own shadowlands and crevasses - places where statements that seem to obey all the language's rules are nevertheless impossible to deal with."
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"Japanese maps tend to come in two varieties: small, schematic, and bewildering; and large, fantastically detailed, and bewildering."
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"Writing makes a map, and there is something about a journey that begs to have its passage marked."
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"There's no question about it. If you look at the map, there's hardly any [Democrats representing rural districts]. There's me, [Rick] Nolan, [Tim] Walz, [Dave] Loebsack and Cheri Bustos. So that's five. And all the rest of them are in urban cities. That's a problem."
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"On a specific day marked on the earth's calendar, and in a specific place on the earth's map, the Son of God came to the planet. It was love."
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