Quotes with territory

  • Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.
  • Every man harbors an inner female territory ruled by his mother, from whom he can never entirely break free.
  • You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention, and sometime, maybe somebody, will throw a rock at you. That's the territory. You buy the land, you get the Indians.
  • 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.
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  • Bruce Jackson All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • Giuseppe Mazzini A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship which binds together all the sons of that territory.
    Giuseppe Mazzini
    Italian writer (1805 - 1872)
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  • Erwin W. Lutzer At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.
    Erwin W. Lutzer
    American evangelical Christian pastor
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  • Camille Paglia Every man harbors an inner female territory ruled by his mother, from whom he can never entirely break free.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Barbara Bush Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • Anne Grant Grief is perhaps an unknown territory for you. You might feel both helpless and hopeless without a sense of a "map" for the journey. Confusion is the hallmark of a transition. To rebuild both your inner and outer world is a major project.
    Anne Grant
    Scottish poet and author (1755 - 1838)
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  • Graham Greene He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
    Graham Greene
    English writer (1904 - 1991)
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  • Alfred Korzybski If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone.
    Alfred Korzybski
    Polish-American independent scholar (1879 - 1950)
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  • Will Rogers In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Kwame Nkrumah It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.
    Kwame Nkrumah
    Ghanaian politician and revolutionary (1909 - 1972)
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  • Alan Alda 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
    American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. (1936 - )
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  • Leo Buscaglia Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.
    Leo Buscaglia
    American author and motivational speaker (1924 - 1998)
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  • Camille Paglia Much violence against women originates in emotional territory that they already command. By midlife and early old age, as the hormones of both genders change, women are in total, despotic control of their marriages.
    Vamps and Tramps (1994)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Ben Shapiro President Obama himself has attributed the legitimacy of the Jewish State not to its historic identity as Jewish territory, but to the Holocaust.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Boris Johnson The euro has become a means by which superior German productivity is able to gain an absolutely unbeatable advantage over the whole eurozone territory.
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Ahmed Ben Bella The liberation movement which I led in Algeria, the organization that I created to fight the French army, was at first a small movement of nothing at all. We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France.
    Ahmed Ben Bella
    Algerian politician, socialist soldier and revolutionary (1916 - 2012)
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  • Jean Baudrillard The local is a shabby thing. There's nothing worse than bringing us back down to our own little corner, our own territory, the radiant promiscuity of the face to face. A culture which has taken the risk of the universal, must perish by the universal.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Alfred Korzybski The map is not the territory.
    Alfred Korzybski
    Polish-American independent scholar (1879 - 1950)
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  • Ben Shapiro The Obama administration has consistently refused to recognize Jerusalem as Israeli territory, let alone as the capital of Israel.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay The reluctant obedience of distant provinces generally costs more than it [The Territory] is worth. Empires which branch out widely are often more flourishing for a little timely pruning.
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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