We've found 8 quotes for 'dialect geography' (0.131 seconds):
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"A language is a dialect with an army and a navy." »Max Weinreich
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"geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it." »Terry Pratchet, The Last Continent
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"History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning its two eyes are geography and chronology." »James A. Garfield
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"History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology." »James A. Garfield
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"When a person identifies himself with a group his critical faculties are diminished and his passions enhanced by a kind of emotive resonance. The individual is not a killer, the group is, and by identifying with it, the individual becomes one. This is the infernal dialect reflected in man's history." »Arthur Koestler
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"geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder. (To Canadian Parliament)" »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"In our own beginnings, we are formed out of the body's interior landscape. For a short while, our mothers' bodies are the boundaries and personal geography which are all that we know of the world. ... Once we no longer live beneath our mother's heart, it is the earth with which we form the same dependent relationship, relying ... on its cycles and elements, helpless without its protective embrace." »Louise Erdrich
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"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain." »John Adams
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