Elisee Reclus Quotes
Geography is history in place, history is geography in time.
Elisee Reclus
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Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands for food, fresh water, timber, fiber and fuel. This has resulted in a substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of life on Earth.
Gary Larson
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History shows that no enemy remains hostile forever, nor do friends remain friendly forever. For that reason, we intend to have normal relations with all.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
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With my history of concussions, the WWE wants to protect me, so I've had to take a lot of neurological testing.
Daniel Bryan
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Protectionism is a very real danger. It is understandable that in times of a severe downturn protectionist pressures mount but the lessons of history are clear. If we give in to protectionist pressures, we will only send the world into a downward spiral.
Manmohan Singh
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Here's the thing with the costumes for 'Mommy': Given the background and social strata that the characters come from, you can't really imagine that they've gone shopping lately, so we went for that very normcore, fashionless era in history, the early 2000s, which was completely transitional.
Xavier Dolan
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The history of American patriotism is figuring out ways that we can work together to move forward and knit together the common government.
Taylor Branch
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History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all.
Fernand Braudel
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Democrats have a long history of utilizing the threat of a potential Ebola outbreak to request massive federal funds while attacking Republicans for expressing skepticism over their funding schemes.
Aaron Klein
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Telluride has an incredible history and reputation, and I've long known of it as a unique entity that makes a place for writers - one more aspect of this exceptional film festival in the Colorado Alps.
Rachel Kushner
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The Constitution of the United States, like all systems of government which are permanent, had its origin in the history and necessities of the people through whose instrumentality and for whose benefit it was formed.
Samuel Freeman Miller
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Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow; attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.
Samuel Johnson
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As a philosopher sympathetic to Foucault recently remarked to me, Foucault failed in each of his major inquiries and, in desperation, went further afield from his areas of expertise. The History of Sexuality is a disaster. Page after page is sheer fantasy, unsupported by the ancient or modern historical record.
Camille Paglia
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Technology is closing the gap between what one can imagine and what one can do and as a result the equality of opportunity is unmatched in human history.
Matt Mullenweg
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I'm saying this as a Republican: In the White House, the effort that goes in and wherever these decisions are made, as to limit civilian casualties, is more probably than any in the history of the world, especially when you consider the history of warfare.
Peter T. King
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Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.
Blaise Pascal
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It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's just hilarious.
Bill Hicks
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The sly reeds whisper to the nightA name - her name -
James Joyce
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Geography is history in place, history is geography in time.
Elisee Reclus
