Maps Quotes - Page 25

• Gravitational waves will bring us exquisitely accurate maps of black holes - maps of their space-time. Those maps will make it crystal clear whether or not what were dealing with are black holes as described by general relativity.

  Kip Thorne

  Space, Black, Crystals

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• Our conscious motivations, ideas, and beliefs are a blend of false information, biases, irrational passions, rationalizations, prejudices, in which morsels of truth swim around and give the reassurance albeit false, that the whole mixture is real and true. The thinking processes attempt to organize this whole cesspool of illusions according to the laws of plausibility. This level of consciousness is supposed to reflect reality; it is the map we use for organizing our life.

  Erich Fromm

  Motivation, Real, Passion

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• We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on maps are silly.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Silly, Lines, Grind

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making”, p.17, Macmillan

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• I would not know what to say to you, except this: there was never a map that got it all right, and truth and beauty were never married to one another for long.

  Reif Larsen

  Long, Married, Truth And Beauty

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• When you have been with your partner for so many years, they become the glove compartment map that you've worn dog-eared and white-creased, the trail you recogonize so well you could draw it by heart and for this very reason keep it with you on journeys at all times. And yet, when you least expect it, one day you open your eyes and there is an unfamiliar turnoff, a vantage point taht wasn't there before, and you have to stop and wonder if maybe this landmark isn't new at all, but rather something you have missed all along.

  Jodi Picoult

  Dog, Heart, Eye

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• Scars are just a treasure map for pain you've buried too deep to remember.

  Jodi Picoult

  Pain, Treasure, Scar

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.340, Simon and Schuster

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• Physiologically adult humans are not meant to spend an additional 10 years in a school system; their brains map that onto "I have been assigned low tribal status". And so, of course, they plot rebellion - accuse the existing tribal overlords of corruption plot, perhaps to split off their own little tribe in the savanna, not realizing that this is impossible in the Modern World.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  School, Years, Brain

  "Rebelling Within Nature". lesswrong.com. July 13, 2008.

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• Throughout history, fairly arbitrary lines drawn on maps have determined who prospers and who needs, who eats and who starves, who attacks and who is attacked, who lives long and who dies young. Oh, we have been slaves to those lines for so long.

  Gavin de Becker

  Long, Needs, Arbitrary

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• I have studied humans for a small eternity. Intent infuses their every movement. Road maps to their inner navigation, plastered all over their skin. Born to be slaves.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Skins, Movement, Navigation

  Karen Marie Moning (2015). “Burned: Fever Series”, p.12, Delacorte Press

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• I stared at the creased map on my wall, the thin green line connecting all the places I had read about. There they were, all the cities of my imaginary future, held together with tape and marker and pins. In six months, a lot had changed. There was no thin green line that could lead me to my future anymore. Just a girl.

  Kami Garcia

  Girl, Wall, Cities

  Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl (2013). “Beautiful Creatures: The Complete Series”, p.332, Penguin UK

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• Death was standing behind a lectern, poring over a map. He looked at Mort as if he wasn’t entirely there. You haven't heard of the bayof mante, have you? He said. “No, sir,” said Mort. Famous shipwreck there. “Was there?” there will be, said Death, if I can find the damn place.

  Terry Pratchett

  Said, Behinds, Standing

  "Mort". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1987.

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• There were no route maps posted on the walls, but a Wonderland-style sign commanding, 'If you know where you are, then please tell others.

  Elizabeth Wein

  Wall, Style, Wonderland

  Elizabeth Wein (2012). “Code Name Verity”, p.105, Egmont UK

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• This is our world, although the people who drew this map decided to put their own land on top of ours. There is no top or bottom, you see.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Our World, Land, People

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2008). “Half of a Yellow Sun”, p.12, Anchor

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• Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs,” sighed George, patting the heading of the map. “We owe them so much.” “Noble men, working tirelessly to help a new generation of law-breakers,” said Fred solemnly.

  J. K. Rowling

  Men, Noble Man, Law

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• There was a time when she had indulged in the hypothetical for hours a day, plotting the map that had led her here. But no life is a line, and hers was an uneven orbit around a dark star, a moth circling a dead bulb, searching for the light it once held.

  Anthony Marra

  Stars, Dark, Light

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• You almost hold up your piece of paper and say, ‘The girl I like just gave me a treasure map to herself.’ But you don’t. You just don’t.

  Laini Taylor

  Girl, Pieces, Paper

  Laini Taylor (2017). “Night of Cake and Puppets: A Daughter of Smoke and Bone Novella”, p.63, Hachette UK

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• Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map out a way of life in which one would please oneself completely and exclusively.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Business, Goal, Way

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.95, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Don't rely on others to show you the way. Carry your own map.

  Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

  Confidence, Travel, Way

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• Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist; it should furnish you with an original spirit with which to tackle the big challenges. It should allow you to find values which will be your road map through life; it should make you spiritually rich, a person who loves whatever you are doing, wherever you are, whomever you are with; it should teach you what is important, how to live and how to die.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Learning, Unique, Challenges

  John Taylor Gatto (2017). “Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling”, p.53, New Society Publishers

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• What is it but a map of busy life,
  Its fluctuations, and its vast concerns?

  William Cowper

  Life, Busy, Fluctuation

  William COWPER (1835). “The works of his life and letters”, p.37

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• I come from a strong matriarchal line. I was raised by Gypsy, her sister, Mary, and my maternal grandmother. The result of not having my father live with us meant that, when it came to understanding the opposite sex, it was like working without a map.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Strong, Sex, Father

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• Greenpeace protesters who lived on the trees right above the planned radar location (Google Maps) and who eat environmentally friendly roots, insect, excrements, and dirt.

  Lubos Motl

  Roots, Tree, Google

  "https://motls.blogspot.ru/2009/09/czech-poland-missile-defense-system.html". motls.blogspot.ru. September 17, 2009.

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• At the demonstration of sixty feminists against the Miss America Pageant in 1968, when the women filled a trash can with bras, girdles, curlers and spike-heeled shoes, the bra-burning myth was launched by the media and, in spite of its inaccuracy and spiteful intent, put radical feminism on the map.

  Hilda Scott

  America, Media, Radical Feminism

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• ... I love walking my feet off. Gimme a map and a box of Band-Aids and I'm all set!

  Fran Drescher

  Feet, Band, Aids

  Fran Drescher (2002). “Cancer Schmancer”

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• My university degree is in art and, yes, I do a lot of drawing for all my books. I have a big drafting table set up in a spare bedroom and I cover it with maps and house plans and sketches that I use in the books. Also, I truly love architecture, so that plays a big part in all my books.

  Jude Deveraux

  Art, Book, Play

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