James Cook Quotes

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

  James Cook

  Opportunity, Remember, Fewer

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• Whatever you do without confidence will be done badly.

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  Done

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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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• Struggle is the architect of the soul.

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  Struggle, Soul, Architect

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• We can never right the wrongs of the past.

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  Past

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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

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  Reality, People, Earth

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

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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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• Never underestimate the incompetence of government.

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  Government, Underestimate, Incompetence

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

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• Seeds sewn in adversity bear the greatest fruit.

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  Adversity, Fruit, Bears

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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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• We should worry about our own souls first and trust in God's plan for others.

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  Worry, Soul, Firsts

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

  James Cook

  People, Mass, Inflation

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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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• Whenever you have something nice someone will try to ruin it.

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  Nice, Trying, Ruins

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• Everybody lives an epic.

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  Epic

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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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• Once you're in heaven it makes no difference when you got there.

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  Differences, Heaven

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• Self interest feeds more people than self sacrifice.

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  Sacrifice, Self, People

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• Socialism is the triumph of people's prejudices over their reason.

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  People, Triumph, Prejudice

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