Amerigo Vespucci famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The manner of their living is very barbarous, because they do not eat at fixed times, but as often as they please
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Those new regions [America] which we found and explored with the fleet . . . we may rightly call a New World . . . a continent more densely peopled and abounding in animals than our Europe or Asia or Africa; and, in addition, a climate milder than in any other region known to us.
-- Amerigo Vespucci -
I resolved to abandon trade and to fix my aim on something more praiseworthy and stable; whence it was that I made preparation for going to see part of the world and its wonders.
-- Amerigo Vespucci
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Nationality is the creative power of human culture, culture is the creative power of nationality.
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The Civic Culture (and The Civic Culture Revisited) remains the best study of comparative political culture in our time.
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Islam's laws are fixed and that is why Islam is stable.
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Everything is a subject. Every subject has a rhythm. To feel it is the raison detre. The photograph is a fixed moment of such a raison detre, which lives on in itself.
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The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
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Learning is definitely not mere imitation, nor is it the ability to accumulate and regurgitate fixed knowledge. Learning is a constant process of discovery - a process without end.
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Life, at its best, is a flowing, changing process in which nothing is fixed.
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I am a camera, with its shutter open. Someday, all of this will be developed, printed, fixed.
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Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once we know them.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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