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“And most of all, books. They were, in and of themselves, reasons to stay alive. Every book written is the product of a human mind in a particular state. Add all the books together and you get the end sum of humanity. Every time I read a great book I felt I was reading a kind of map, a treasure map, and the treasure I was being directed to was in actual fact myself.”

Mind Humans Kind Book Ends States Reason Facts Together Humanity Reading Felt Alive Written Particular Products Add Treasure Maps Human Mind Staying Alive Great Book Reason To Stay

Book:Reasons to Stay Alive

Source: Reasons to Stay Alive

“The best way to look at countries on a map is like a chalk outline drawn by the police when someone dies what you are seeing with the borders are just outlines of historical crimes past warlords empires its nothing to be loyal to. Have loyalty to reason, to evidence, to ideals not to lines drawn up mostly by criminals.”

Way Looks Country Reason Past Dies Lines Seeing Crime Evidence Ideals Police Historical Criminals Loyalty Best Way Borders Empires Maps Loyal Outlines Chalk Warlords When Someone Dies

Author:Stefan Molyneux

“The globe has been circumnavigated, but no man ever yet has; you may survey a kingdom and note the result in maps, but all the savants in the world could not produce a reliable map of the poorest human personality.”

Men World Humans May Has Beens Results Produce Personality Notes Kingdoms Maps Globes Poorest Surveys Human Personality Savants

Book:Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country

Source: Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country

“Thought maps existence; fantasy colors it.”

Thinking Existence Fantasy Color Thoughtful Maps

Author:Mason Cooley

“If we don't want to see the map of Central America covered in a sea of red, eventually lapping at our own borders, we must act now.”

Ifs Want Government America Politics Sea Red Borders Maps Covered Central America

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1986

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1986

“In times like ours, where the growing complexity of life leaves us barely the time to read the newspapers, where the map of Europehas endured profound rearrangements and is perhaps on the brink of enduring yet others, where so many threatening and new problems appear everywhere, you will admit it may be demanded of a writer that he be more than a fine wit who makes us forget in idle and byzantine discussions on the merits of pure form.”

May Art Problem Form Artist Forget Growing Fine Pure Profound Endure Wit Newspapers Discussion Merit Complexity Maps Idle Threatening Byzantine

Author:Marcel Proust

“The map of America is a map of endlessness, of opening out, of forever and ever. No man's face would make you think of it but his hope might, his courage might.”

Thinking Men Might America Faces Forever Opening Maps Make You Think

Author:Archibald MacLeish

“I sit at my desk each night with no place to go, opening the wrinkled maps of Milwaukee and Buffalo, the whole U.S., its cemeteries, its arbitrary time zones, through routes like small veins, capitals like small stones.”

Whole Night United States Stones Opening Zone Maps Desks Routes Veins Arbitrary Cemetery Places To Go Buffalo Time Zones Milwaukee

Book:Selected Poems of Anne Sexton

Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton

“I wish I could get you to seriously study the Word of God in order that you might see His road map.”

Might Order Wish Study Maps Word Of God Road Maps

Author:J. Vernon McGee

“We are voyagers, discoverers of the not-known, the unrecorded; we have no map; possibly we will reach haven, heaven.”

Life Heaven Known Havens Maps

Book:Trilogy

Source: Trilogy

“The traditional educational theory is to the effect that the way to bring up children is to keep them innocent (i.e., believing in biological, political, and socioeconomic fairy tales) as long as possible ... that students should be given the best possible maps of the territories of experience in order that they may be prepared for life, is not as popular as might be assumed.”

“Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.... I was learning that books and diagrams can be evil things if they deaden the mind of man and make him blind or cynical before subjection of any kind.”

Ifs Men Mind Kind Book Evil Education Silence Figures Blind Maps Professors Cynical Academia Subjection Evil Things Diagrams

Book:Daughter of Earth

Source: Daughter of Earth

“That is the charm of the map. It represents the other side of the horizon where everything is possible.”

Sides Charm Maps Horizon

Book:From Red Sea to Blue Nile: a thousand miles of Ethiopia

Source: From Red Sea to Blue Nile: a thousand miles of Ethiopia

“Bobby Fischer was hugely important for the American chess community because it put chess on the map - he made it possible for other chess players to make a living.”

Made Important Community Player Chess Made It Maps Chess Players Fischer

Author:Liz Garbus

“Science's job is to map our ignorance.”

Jobs Ignorance Maps

Book:Arboretum

Source: Arboretum

“In Maureen Owen's perfectly titled Erosion's Pull, words and lines map, unmap, and revamp our everyday postcontemporary geographies: ironies and ambiguities, surrealistic conundrums, kaleidoscopic comedies, puzzlements, certain and uncertain loves and losses.”

Certain Lines Loss Comedy Everyday Irony Maps Uncertain Geography Ambiguity Erosion Love And Loss Conundrums

Author:Susan Howe

“Shakespeare drew a map of the human mind as clearly as Newton mapped the heavens. Wht is one considered science and the other fir only to be mocked with jokes about pretty girls and drury lane?”

Mind Humans Girl Heaven Jokes Maps Human Mind Newton Lanes Pretty Girl

Author:Sebastian Faulks

“The more effort we make to appreciate and perceive reality, the larger and more accurate our maps will be. But many do not want to make this effort.”

Want Reality Effort Appreciate Perceive Maps Accurate

Book:The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth

Source: The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth

“My home is a little more complicated than coordinates on a map.”

Littles Home Complicated Maps Coordinates

Author:Jay Crownover

“As people talk, text and browse, telecommunication networks are capturing urban flows in real time and crystallizing them as Googles traffic congestion maps.”

People Real Flow Maps Google Urban Traffic Congestion Traffic Congestion

Author:Carlo Ratti

“The bottom line: All of your investing decisions should be grounded in your own investment policy statement. By taking a "top-down" look at your finances and writing out a road map, your policy statement will add an important element of discipline to your approach.”

Should Writing Looks Important Lines Decision Policy Discipline Elements Approach Add Investment Bottom Investing Statements Finance Maps Grounded Bottom Line Top Down Road Maps

Author:Lewis Schiff

“Art is a form of exploration, of sailing off into the unknown alone, heading for those unmarked places on the map. If children are not permitted-not taught-to be adventurers and explorers as children, what will become of the world of adventure, of stories, of literature itself?”

Ifs World Children Art Stories Form Literature Taught Adventure Art Is Maps Exploration Sailing Headings Explorers Adventurer

Author:Michael Chabon

“There's definitely, definitely, definitely, no logic to human behaviour . . . There's no map And a compass Wouldn't help at all”

Humans Helping Logic Maps Behaviour Compass Human Behaviour

Author:Bjork

“Discoveries are always accidental; and the great use of science is by investigating the nature of the effects produced by any process or contrivance, and of the causes by which they are brought about, to explain the operation and determine the precise value of every new invention. This fixes as it were the latitude and longitude of each discovery, and enables us to place it in that part of the map of human knowledge which it ought to occupy. It likewise enables us to use it in taking bearings and distances, and in shaping our course when we go in search of new discoveries.”

“Fragments of the natural method must be sought with the greatest care. This is the first and last desideratum among botanists. Nature makes no jumps. [Natura non facit saltus] All taxa show relationships on all sides like the countries on a map of the world.”

World Firsts Country Shows Care Lasts Sides Natural Relationship Method Maps Fragments Firsts And Lasts

Author:Carl Linnaeus

“If once again Germany destabilizes Europe, then Germany will be not be divided again, but wiped off the map. East and West have the necessary technology in order to enforce this verdict. If Germany begins again, there is no other solution.”

Ifs Order Technology Solutions Europe West East Germany Maps Divided Verdict Begin Again East And West

Author:Lech Walesa

“Dear God I've heard your name from teachers, family and friends, you made the universe and so will live on when it ends. Everyone I know admits they've never seen your face, they're not sure where you live and have no map to the place.”

Knows Made Ends Faces Universe Names Teacher Heard Dear Not Sure Maps Your Face Family And Friends Dear God Where You Live

Author:Dawud Wharnsby Ali

“The covetous map explores the whole world in pursuit of a subsistence, and fate is close at his heels.”

World Whole Fate Pursuit Whole World Maps Heels Covetousness Subsistence

Author:Saadi

“Writing makes a map, and there is something about a journey that begs to have its passage marked.”

Writing Journey Maps Passages

Book:Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest

Source: Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest

“How we remember, what we remember, and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.”

Remember Form Memories Individuality Maps Our Memories

Book:One to One: Self-Understanding Through Journal Writing

Source: One to One: Self-Understanding Through Journal Writing

“I used to say the evening that I developed the first x-ray photograph I took of insulin in 1935 was the most exciting moment of my life. But the Saturday afternoon in late July 1969, when we realized that the insulin electron density map was interpretable, runs that moment very close.”

Firsts Moments Running Used Late Exciting Photograph Evening Maps That Moment Rays Afternoon Saturday July Electrons Density Insulin Saturday Afternoon

Book:The collected works of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

Source: The collected works of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

“It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics.”

Men Might Reading Language Awareness Relation Mathematics Physics Maps Unreasonable Multitasking Spatial Multi Tasking

Author:Stephen Hawking

“If everybody voted, then it would completely change the political map in this country.”

Ifs Country Political Change Maps

Author:Barack Obama

“I once knew a girl who didn't know where anywhere was in the world. Not a clue. I asked her if she knew where Africa was and she answered, 'Is it the orange one on a map?'”

Ifs Knows World Girl Maps Orange Clue

Author:Matt Roper

“There must be limits, somewhere, to the human footprint on this earth. When the whole of the world is reduced to nothing but human product, we will have lost the map that can show us how we got here, and can offer our spirits an answer when we ask why. Surely we are capable of declaring sacred some quarters that we dare not enter or possess.”

World Humans Whole Shows Earth Spirit Asks Lost Answers Products Offers Limits Capable Sacred Environmental Dare Maps Quarters Stewardship Footprint Declaring

Book:Small Wonder

Source: Small Wonder

“You have to be willing to be happy. Despite the mess of your life-just accept what's happened, throw away your ideals, and create a new map of happiness to follow.”

Accepting Happened Willing Ideals Despite Mess Maps

Author:Tarryn Fisher

“That's the thing about love. You can plan it, and schedule it, and map it out. You can tell it how you want it to be, and where you want it to go, and what it's supposed to do. You can try to make it fit you. But it won't listen to any of it. Love puts itself first, and makes its own plans. It maps you out instead. Maybe that's what makes it perfect.”

Want Trying Firsts Perfect Plans Love You Fit Maps Schedules

Author:Holly Smale

“What the Iranians have said is, "we will wipe Israel off the face of the map, and we will bring death to America." When someone points a gun at your head and loads it, by God, you ought to take them seriously, and we need to take that seriously.”

Needs Said America Faces Ought Gun Israel Maps Load Wipe

Author:Mike Huckabee

“I am always surprised when I watch the weather report on German television. First they show the map of Europe and then the camera moves to the right. Then comes Kiev, then Moscow and then everything stops. This seems to be the West's view of us - of a wild Russia that begins past Moscow, a place one prefers not to see. This is a big mistake. The West must pay closer attention.”

Firsts Shows Bigs Seems Past Moving Views Pay Attention Mistake Watches Television Europe Cameras West Russia Weather Reports Maps Moscow Big Mistake Kiev

Author:Vladimir Sorokin

“Acting is many things. Acting is playing lines, of course, but it's much more profound than that. Acting is truth-telling, and trying to find the truth in a human situation, which will be sketched out by a screenwriter with all the skill that a screenwriter can do; but in the end, that's just the map of the journey. The actor's job is to divine and embody the truth, and find it.”

Trying Humans Ends Jobs Courses Actors Can Do Lines Acting Situation Journey Divine Skills Profound Telling The Truth Maps Screenwriters

Author:Paul Greengrass

“Maps are a way of organizing wonder.”

Way Wonder Soil Maps

Author:Peter Steinhart

“The map is not the territory, the word is not the thing it describes. Whenever the map is confused with the territory, a 'semantic disturbance' is set up in the organism. The disturbance continues until the limitation of the map is recognized.”

Flight Limitation Confused Aviation Maps Territory Organisms Disturbance

Author:Alfred Korzybski

“One of my dreams is to expand and make sure African music and Afro Beats music is really on the map. I would like to be a contribution to that success.”

Dream Music Is Beats Contribution Maps Afros African Music

Author:Ice Prince

“My dad started teaching me how to play guitar when I was 13 years old. When he'd go to work, he'd map out guitar cords on a piece of notebook paper. I'd sit down and look at it every day and practice while he was gone.”

Years Looks Play Practice Gone Pieces Teaching Dad Paper Down And Guitar My Dad Maps Notebook Cords

Author:Jason Aldean

“I always wrote the music first, and the music gave me the mood and the lyrics were pretty much put in to give you a map, where that mood came from and where it's going. But my first love was really the music itself, and I guess I've gone back to that.”

Giving Firsts Gone Mood Maps First Love

Author:Billy Joel

“I've always been fascinated with marine geography and how deep things are. I was spellbound by the tsunami, for example, by the actual maps. There is just something about the unseen bottom of the sea that has always fascinated me, how deep is it.”

Sea Example Bottom Maps Fascinated Unseen Marine Geography Tsunami Deep Things

Author:Joan Didion

“If you look at a group of people that had faith, it's got to be the Jews. They followed Moses through the desert for 40 years with no map. There had to be one guy in the back, like, 'I don't think he knows where he's going.'”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Years Looks Humor Funny Guy Groups Jew Desert Maps Moses

Author:Adam Ferrara

“Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.”

Men Heart Soul Play Feelings Force Lord Movement Hair Easier Depth Various Maps Soul Man

Author:Saint Augustine

“But actually making pictures to look like my pictures, I've done it for so long, I'm kind of used to it now. So at the beginning of the process, designing and storyboarding everything, I sort of did all that. And then designed the characters, and doing the textures for the characters, and the texture maps to cover all the animated characters and the sets, I did those, because that's where my sort of coloring and textures get imprinted on the film.”

Looks Kind Long Done Character Film Used Process Design Maps Texture Animated Storyboarding

Author:Dave McKean

“PhotoShop is a program I use all the time with my 2D stuff. And that's an extraordinary program - you really can do anything there, and I've never hit my head on the ceiling. The 3D stuff is incredibly complicated, monstrously complicated, but for the things that I want to do, I've found very simple and interesting ways, I hope, of making images without getting tied up too much in the maps and technicalities.”

Way Want Use Found Stuff Can Do Simple Interesting Too Much Program Extraordinary Complicated Maps Tied Ceilings Tied Up Interesting Ways Photoshop Technicalities

Author:Dave McKean

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