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Sometimes I think war is God’s way of teaching us geography.

Paul Rodriguez

If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography.

Mackenzie King

Geography has no bearing on it, nor have the interests of the community in which I work.

Yves Tanguy

French painter (1900-1955)

If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.

Ludwig von Mises

Austrian-American economist (1881-1973)

An hour or two spent in writing from dictation, another hour or two in reading aloud, a little geography and a little history and a little physics made the day pass busily.

Hudson Stuck

The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind of duty to other women to walk in and sit down on the chair that was offered, and so establish the right of others long hence and far distant in geography to sit in the high seats.

Frances Perkins

Workers-rights advocate and United States Secretary of Labor 1933-1945

As a state we are so uniquely positioned in so many ways. Our geography, our placement in the country, and our history positions us to be the state that propels energy efficiency as an industry.

Jennifer Granholm

United States Secretary of Energy since 2021

War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.

Ambrose Bierce

American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist

When I was in the fourth grade, I became intensely interested in geography and I learned it well.

Clyde Tombaugh

American astronomer (1906-1997)

The art of biography is different from geography. Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.

Edmund Clerihew Bentley

British writer (1875-1956)

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