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.

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

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  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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• 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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• Struggle is the architect of the soul.

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  Struggle, Soul, Architect

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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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• We can never right the wrongs of the past.

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  Past

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

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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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• 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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• Seeds sewn in adversity bear the greatest fruit.

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  Adversity, Fruit, Bears

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• To succeed in business, put the interest of the customer ahead of your own.

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  Succeed, Interest, Customers

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• Virtually anything is more stimulating than conversations with strangers at social gatherings.

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  Gathering, Stranger, Social

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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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• Other than sex, two things bring people together; economic transactions and booze.

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  Sex, Two, People

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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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• Liberals believe and inexhaustible fund exists that can be tapped endlessly to pay for government social programs. Tax the rich and give it to a long line of moochers, pork barrel hustlers and ne'er-do-wells. These funds would otherwise have been employed as additional capital indispensable to economic progress.

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  Believe, Government, Giving

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