Territory Quotes

• Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.

  Alan Alda

  Motivational, Smile, Laughter

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• The map is not the territory.

  Alfred Korzybski

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Journey

  Science and Sanity (1933).

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• The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.

  Paul Fix

  Funny, Thinking, People

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

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• The map is not the territory... The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map.

  Alfred Korzybski

  World, Maps, Structure

  "Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics". Book by Alfred Korzybski, 1933.

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• Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Life, Time, Stories

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• Speaking about symmetry, look out our window, and you may see a cardinal attacking its reflection in the window. The cardinal is the only bird we have who often does this. If it has a nest nearby, the cardinal thinks there is another cardinal trying to invade its territory. It never realizes it is attacking its own reflection. Cardinals don't know much about mirror symmetry!

  Martin Gardner

  Reflection, Thinking, Mirrors

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  All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.

  Sally Ride

  Travel, Adventure, History

  Sally Ride, Susan Okie (1986). “To Space & Back”

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• Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi.

  Alan Alda

  Inspirational, Genius, Originality

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• Compassion also brings us into the territory of mystery - encouraging us not just to see beauty, but perhaps also to look for the face of God in the moment of suffering, in the face of a stranger, in the face of the vibrant religious other.

  Krista Tippett

  God, Religious, Compassion

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• Enemy-occupied territory - that is what this world is.

  C. S. Lewis

  Enemy, World, This World

  C. S. Lewis (2010). “A Year with C. S. Lewis: 365 Daily Readings from his Classic Works”, HarperCollins UK

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• ...if you fall into a lion's pit, the reason the lion will tear you to pieces is not because it's hungry-be assured, zoo animals are amply fed-or because it's bloodthirsty, but because you've invaded it's territory.

  Yann Martel

  Zoos, Fall, Animal

  Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.73, Canongate Books

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• Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sea, Rights, Firsts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

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• Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself.

  Alan Alda

  Laughter, Laughing, Doubt

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• Chance favors the prepared mind.

  Louis Pasteur

  Inspirational, Softball, Sports

  Lecture, University of Lille, December 7б 1854.

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• Since we cannot defeat Israel in war, we do this in stages. We take any and every territory that we can of Palestine, and establish a sovereignty there, and we use it as a springboard to take more. When the time comes, we can get the Arab nations to join us for the final blow against Israel.

  Yasser Arafat

  War, Blow, Israel

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• The stage is my territory, my boxing ring. That's where I'm free.

  Mika

  Boxing, Stage, Rings

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• How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.

  Golda Meir

  Israel, Cleansing, Return

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• The bible belt is oral territory and therefore despised by the literati.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Belts, Despised

  "The Critic", Vol. 33, Thomas More Association, p. 12, 1974.

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• Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness.

  Alfred Korzybski

  Two, Important, Maps

  Alfred Korzybski (1958). “Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics”, p.58, Institute of GS

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• But I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of therest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can't stand it. I been there before.

  Mark Twain

  Aunt, Light, Huckleberry

  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ch. 43 (1884)

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• When walking in open territory, bother no one. If someone bothers you, ask him to stop. If he does not stop, destroy him.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Doe, Bother, Walking

  "The Eleven Satanic Rules of the Earth" by Anton Szandor LaVey, www.buzzfeed.com. 1967.

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• Guys are like dogs: they never notice if you've changed your hair, but they can sense when there's another guy sniffing around their territory

  Candace Bushnell

  Dog, Hair, Guy

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• Whoever controls the territory possesses it.

  Paul Virilio

  Source: ctheory.net

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• The human failing I would most like to correct is aggression. It may have had survival advantage in caveman days, to get more food, territory or a partner with whom to reproduce, but now it threatens to destroy us all.

  Stephen Hawking

  Survival, May, Failing

  "Stephen Hawking: Aggression could destroy us" by Nick Clark, www.independent.co.uk. February 19, 2015.

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• I roam around a lot in my territory, but what I learn at one end inflects and opens up my understanding at the other.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Understanding, Ends

  Source: therumpus.net

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