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• For most of the nineteen-seventies, the official route map of the New York City subway system was a beautiful thing.

  Paul Goldberger

  Beautiful, New York, Cities

  "The Vignelli Subway Map Goes Digital" by Paul Goldberger, www.newyorker.com. September 23, 2011.

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• Borders are scratched across the hearts of men By strangers with a calm, judicial pen, And when the borders bleed we watch with dread The lines of ink across the map turn red.

  Marya Mannes

  War, Heart, Men

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• When well told, a story captured the subtle movement of change. If a novel was a map of a country, a story was the bright silver pin that marked the crossroads.

  Ann Patchett

  Country, Stories, Movement

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• The Iranian regime supports violent extremists and challenges us across the region. It pursues a nuclear capability that could spark a dangerous arms race and raise the prospect of a transfer of nuclear know-how to terrorists. Its president denies the Holocaust and threatens to wipe Israel off the map. The danger from Iran is grave, it is real.

  Barack Obama

  Real, Israel, Iran

  "The Iranian Revolution". "Rear Vision" with Annabelle Quince, www.abc.net.au. February 11, 2009.

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• So, we just kind of created our own thing and that's part of the beauty of Athens: is that it's so off the map and there's no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing.

  Michael Stipe

  Beauty, San Francisco, East

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• You may keep Turkey on the map of Europe, you may call the country by the name of Turkey if you like, but do not think you can keep up the Mahommedan rule in the country.

  Richard Cobden

  Country, Thinking, Europe

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• You can't use an old map to see a new land.

  Gary Hamel

  Land, Use

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• No map to help us find the tranquil flat lands, clearings calm, fields without mean fences. Rolling down the other side of life our compass is the sureness of ourselves. Time may make us rugged, ragged round the edges, but know and understand that love is still the safest place to land.

  Rod McKuen

  Mean, Love Is, Land

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• There must be something innate about maps, about this one specific way of picturing our world and our relation to it, that charms us, calls to us, won’t let us look anywhere else in the room if there’s a map on the wall.

  Ken Jennings

  Wall, Our World, Looks

  Ken Jennings (2012). “Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• Arthur Jay Klinghoffer, a professor of political science at Rutgers University, has argued that geography seems less relevant than ever in a world where nonstate actors -- malleable entities like ethnicities, for example -- are as powerful and important as the ones with governments and borders. Where on a map can you point to al-Qaeda? Or Google, or Wal-Mart? Everywhere and nowhere.

  Ken Jennings

  Powerful, Government, Ethnicity

  Ken Jennings (2012). “Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• The world is poor because her fortune is buried in the sky and all her treasure maps are of the earth.

  Calvin Miller

  Sky, World, Treasure

  Calvin Miller (2010). “The Singer Trilogy: The Mythic Retelling of the Story of the New Testament”, p.335, InterVarsity Press

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• Once befriended, our shadow becomes a divine map that-when properly read and followed-reconn ects us to the life we were meant to live, the people we were meant to be, and the contributions we were meant to give.

  Debbie Ford

  People, Giving, Shadow

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• Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map.

  Larry Wall

  Hackers, Diverse, Hard

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• The National Bank at profit sells road maps for the soul.

  Bob Dylan

  Soul, Politics, Profit

  Song: Tombstone Blues, Album: Highway 61 Revisited, 1965

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• I have always loved maps.

  Ken Jennings

  Ken Jennings (2012). “Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• Ideologies do not map the complete living processes of a World.

  William Irwin Thompson

  World, Process, Ideology

  William Irwin Thompson (1987). “Gaia, a Way of Knowing: Political Implications of the New Biology”, Inner Traditions International

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• I really don't map out my life. There's no big plan.

  Sean Hannity

  Bigs, Plans

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• I always think I know the way a novel will go. I write maps on oversized art pads like the kind I carried around in college when I was earnest about drawing. I need to have some idea of the shape of the novel, where its headed, so that I can proceed with confidence. But the truth is my characters start doing and saying things I don't expect.

  Julianna Baggott

  Art, Writing, Character

  "Q&A with Pure Author Julianna Baggott". Interview with Melissa Wiley, geekdad.com. April 4, 2012.

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• I'm just the smallest dot in a big map of human history.

  Ben Casnocha

  Dots, Bigs, Smallest

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• My hair's been every color. My hair's been all over the map.

  Katie Cassidy

  Hair, Color

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There's a lot of great things to see here in the United States. Those times spent together with maps and old cups from the diner you went to, those are really important as a family.

  Mark Consuelos

  Important, Together, United States

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• While writing Cold Mountain, I held maps of two geographies, two worlds, in my mind as I wrote. One was an early map of North Carolina. Overlaying it, though, was an imagined map of the landscape Jack travels in the southern Appalachian folktales. He's much the same Jack who climbs the beanstalk, vulnerable and clever and opportunistic.

  Charles Frazier

  Clever, Writing, Two

  "Week three: Charles Frazier on writing Cold Mountain" by Charles Frazier, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2011.

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• But I really believe it is in America's interest as well as that of the free world more generally to stop Iran from getting its hands on nuclear weapons. This regime has threatened to wipe Israel off the map and bring about a world without America, and either of those is a really bad prospect.

  Frank Gaffney

  Believe, Hands, Iran

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• The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity.

  Seth Godin

  Art, Numbers, Paint

  "Seth Godin on What it Takes to be a Linchpin". Interview with Steve Cunningham, mashable.com. February 14, 2014.

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• Iran is the only country in the world that's threatening to erase another country from the map as part of a collective genocide.

  Sigmar Gabriel

  Country, Iran, World

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