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• But there are certain books I would never put on a Kindle because you want to be able to look at graphs and photos or the footnotes and maps. You can't see that.

  Lisa See

  Book, Looks, Want

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• Reading old travel books or novels set in faraway places, spinning globes, unfolding maps, playing world music, eating in ethnic restaurants, meeting friends in cafes . . . all these things are part of never-ending travel practice, not unlike doing scales on a piano, shooting free-throws, or meditating.

  Phil Cousineau

  Book, Reading, Practice

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• I think baseball owes McGwire a gratitude of thanks for putting baseball back on the map where it should be.

  Jose Canseco

  Baseball, Gratitude, Thinking

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• I wish to put together an imaginary nation. It is my belief that no other nation is possible, or rather, I believe that authors who count take responsibility for a map which is addressed to travellers of the earth, the world, and the spirit. Each issue is composed as a map of this land and this glory, images of our cities and of our politics must join our poetry. I want a nation in which discourse is active and scholarship is understood as it should be, the mode of our understanding and the ground of our derivations.
  -Robin Blaser (June 3, 1967)

  Robin Blaser

  Believe, Responsibility, Issues

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• The brain is not the mind. It is probably impossible to look at a map of brain activity and predict or even understand the emotions, reactions, hopes and desires of the mind.

  David Brooks

  Brain, Mind, Desire

  "Beyond the Brain". Article by David Brooks, www.nytimes.com. June 17, 2013.

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• In the spiritual life it is not necessary to have a complete map of the path in order to begin traveling. On the contrary, having such complete knowledge may actually hinder rather than help the onward march. The deeper secrets of spiritual life are unraveled to those who take risks and who make bold experiments with it. They are not meant for the idler who seeks guarantees at every step. Those who speculate from the shore about the ocean shall know only its surface, but those who would know the depths of the ocean must be willing to plunge into it.

  Meher Baba

  Spiritual, Ocean, Order

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• 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.

  Carl Linnaeus

  Relationship, Country, World

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• 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.

  Lech Walesa

  Technology, Order, Europe

  "Der Spiegel" Magazine, 15/1990, April 9, 1990.

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

  Christina Baldwin

  Writing, Journey, Passages

  Christina Baldwin (1991). “Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest”, Bantam

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

  Christina Baldwin

  Memories, Individuality, Remember

  Christina Baldwin (1991). “One to One: Self-Understanding Through Journal Writing”, p.68, M. Evans

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

  Barack Obama

  Change, Country, Political

  Remarks by the President to the City Club of Cleveland, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. March 18, 2015.

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• 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.

  Dorothy Hodgkin

  Running, July, Rays

  Dorothy Hodgkin, Guy Dodson (1994). “The collected works of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin”

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• After all, the past is our only real guide to the future, and historical analogies are instruments for distilling and organizing the past and converting it to a map by which we can navigate.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Real, Past, Historical

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• 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?'

  Matt Roper

  Girl, Orange, World

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• In other words, all of my books are lies. They are simply maps of a territory, shadows of a reality, gray symbols dragging their bellies across the dead page, suffocated signs full of muffled sound and faded glory, signifying absolutely nothing. And it is the nothing, the Mystery, the Emptiness alone that needs to be realized: not known but felt, not thought but breathed, not an object but an atmosphere, not a lesson but a life.

  Ken Wilber

  Lying, Book, Reality

  Ken Wilber (2004). “The Simple Feeling of Being: Visionary, Spiritual, and Poetic Writings”, p.141, Shambhala Publications

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• People who are constantly looking for the opportunity to do something new are also people who are not going to be helped by having job titles - job titles create expectations of specialization and focus which don't map really well to creating the best possible experience for your customers.

  Gabe Newell

  Jobs, Opportunity, Creating

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

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• People make maps of all the places I've mentioned. I knew that those people were out there. I wanted to create something for them.

  Craig Finn

  People, Wanted

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Each source that I read, I would look through the bibliography and the footnotes, and use that as a map for the next thing I would read.

  Alexander Chee

  Looks, Use, Next

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's always nice to get out there and kind of put Boston College on the map, because we're not one of those schools that is seen nationally by everybody.

  Rich Gunnell

  Nice, School, College

  Source: prod.www.chiefs.clubs.nfl.com

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• 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.

  Joan Didion

  Marine, Sea, Unseen

  Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 3, 2006.

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• 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.

  Billy Joel

  First Love, Giving, Gone

  "Backstage With Billy Joel: The Billboard Cover Story Interview (Exclusive)". Interview with Ray Waddell, www.billboard.com. January 31, 2014.

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• 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.

  Holly Smale

  Love You, Perfect, Trying

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• 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.

  Tarryn Fisher

  Accepting, Mess, Willing

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• Maps can be a remarkably powerful tool for understanding the world and how it works, but they show only what you ask them to.

  Max Fisher

  Powerful, Understanding, Tools

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Marital partners often trigger in each other resourceless states—negative trance-like experiences in which partners feel devoid of satisfactory solutions. Carol Kershaw maps these interactional loops and provides Ericksonian strategies to help couples make their marriage entrancing. Therapists of all persuasions are sure to benefit from this important book.

  Jeffrey K. Zeig

  Couple, Book, Important

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