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If geography is prose, maps are iconography.


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Looking in the mirror to check if my tie is straight is a waste of my time. I only look in the mirror once a day, and that's in the morning when I shave.



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Ive never met a general yet who could milk a cow.



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Throughout Soviet times, I understood what was really happening in the world around me.



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Science will liberate us from the chains of big cities and lead us back to nature.



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Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another.



In the past, when I shot films about fishermen and hunters, I always had to admire their ability to perceive time in its entirety. The present was always temporary.

In the past, when I shot films about fishermen and hunters, I always had to admire their ability to perceive time in its entirety. The present was always temporary.



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Security is like virginity: you're either a virgin or you're not. You either have security or you don't.



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History is more interesting than politics.



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That is faith, cleaving to Christ, twining round Him with all the tendrils of our heart, as the vine does round its support.



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Alcohol may also persuade us that we have found the truth about life, a comforting experience rarely available in the sober hour.



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I think a shotgun or a handgun that has a six-round clip is a very good, perfectly adequate weapon for self-defense, in the home. You simply can't create that kind of mayhem, if you have to reload.



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Demosthenes, when taunted by Pytheas that all his arguments "smelled of the lamp," replied, "Yes, but your lamp and mine, my friend, do not witness the same labours.



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I would like to direct. What goes on behind stage is very interesting.



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Civil officials have no business meddling in private religious affairs.




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