James Cook Quotes

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• Remember, the greater the opportunity, the fewer are those who see it.

  James Cook

  Opportunity, Remember, Fewer

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• Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.

  James Cook

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• To enslave a people, give them money they didn't earn.

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  People, Giving

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• Whatever you do without confidence will be done badly.

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  Done

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• Struggle is the architect of the soul.

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  Struggle, Soul, Architect

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• From what I have said of the natives of New Holland they may appear to some to be the most wretched people upon earth but in reality they are far happier than we Europeans, being wholly unacquainted not only with the superfluous, but

  James Cook

  Reality, People, Earth

  James Cook (1897). “Captain Cook's Voyages Round the World”

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• We can never right the wrongs of the past.

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  Past

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• No matter how great your wisdom, you can still make a fool of yourself.

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  Matter, Fool, Stills

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• Independent thinkers are usually geniuses or idiots and at times it's hard to tell which.

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  Independent, Genius, Idiot

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• A free ride is life's most difficult journey.

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  Journey, Difficult, Difficult Journeys

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• Seeds sewn in adversity bear the greatest fruit.

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  Adversity, Fruit, Bears

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• Better to have something to say than to have to say something.

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• Never underestimate the incompetence of government.

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  Government, Underestimate, Incompetence

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• The decline and fall of a civilization is barely noticed by most of its citizens.

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  Fall, Civilization, Citizens

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• There is no help from without, only from within.

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  Helping

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• It's easier to have faith in yourself if you have faith in God.

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  Have Faith, Faith In God, Easier

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• A thinker reverses roles and sees the perspectives of others.

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  Perspective, Roles, Thinker

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• The more money spent by government to address social injustice the greater the cries of social injustice.

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  Government, Addresses, Injustice

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• Government employees move up the ladder through educational credentials rather than merit. People are given jobs and promotions based on seniority, race and gender rather than ability or talent. Such a system often overlooks the deserving and rewards the incompetent. There is no payoff for achievement.

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  Jobs, Educational, Moving

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• When your mind tries to verify a preconceived notion you can miss the obvious.

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  Missing, Mind, Trying

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• Everybody lives an epic.

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  Epic

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• Self interest feeds more people than self sacrifice.

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  Sacrifice, Self, People

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• Hardly anything works out as well as we hope.

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  Work Out, Wells, Things Work Out

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• Inflation makes the wealthiest people richer and the masses poorer.

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  People, Mass, Inflation

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• Knaves will come and knaves will go.

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  Knaves

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