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Children in schools need to have something to do with music and learn it the way they do literature, geography and biology.

~Daniel Barenboim

Topics: Biology Children Geography Learn Literature Music Need Schools Something Way

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I want my books to last, to stand the test of time, and to do that I focus on the forces that shape the subject - the cultural and sociological geography - to capture them in a way that will explain them no matter what they are doing.

~David Maraniss

Topics: Books Capture Cultural Doing Explain Focus Forces Geography Last Matter Shape Sociological Stand Subject Test Them Time Want Way Will

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Scotland and England may sometimes be rivals, but by geography, we are also neighbours. By history, allies. By economics, partners. And by fate and fortune, comrades, friends and family.

~Douglas Alexander

Topics: Allies Also Comrades Economics England Family Fate Fortune Friends Friends And Family Geography History May Neighbours Partners Rivals Scotland Sometimes

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A period of time is as much an organising principle for a work of fiction as a sense of place. You can do geography, as Faulkner did, or you can dwell on a particular period. It provides the same framework.

~E. L. Doctorow

Topics: Did Dwell Faulkner Fiction Framework Geography Much Particular Period Place Principle Provides Same Sense Time Work You

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School boards are, for the most part,made up of political wannabes who see a board seat as a stepping stone for political office, or well-meaning parents who represent an ethnic group or geography, or have some other narrow interests. Few people on them understand what governance is about.

~Eli Broad

Topics: About Board Boards Ethnic Few Few People Geography Governance Group Interests Most Narrow Office Other Parents People Political Represent School Seat See Some Stepping Stepping Stone Stone Them Understand Up Well-Meaning Who

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I think I've developed a sort of ADD for geography now. When I've been in a country for too long, I'm like, 'I think it's time to leave.' I don't know what that's going to do to me in later life.

~Elizabeth Debicki

Topics: Add Been Country Developed Geography Going Know Later Leave Life Like Long Me Now Sort Think Time Too I Think

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I did a geography degree, and if you told me whilst I was ignoring my geography degree revision in order to watch another episode of '24' that one day I wouldn't need that geography degree and I'd actually be in '24,' I'd have been quite pleased, I think.

~Emily Berrington

Topics: Actually Another Been Day Degree Did Episode Geography Ignoring Me Need One Day Order Pleased Quite Revision Think Watch Whilst You I Think

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I remember hearing Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Big Bill Broonzy, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley and not really knowing anything about the geography or the culture of the music. But for some reason it did something to me - it resonated.

~Eric Clapton

Topics: About Anything Berry Big Bill Chuck Chuck Berry Culture Did Geography Hearing Knowing Me Music Really Reason Remember Some Something Terry I Remember

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Geography does not define you - love does.

~Eve Ensler

Topics: Define Does Geography Love You

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Cultural values are, in themselves, neutral as well as universal, and so much depends on how individuals or ethnic groups use them. Values are influenced by so many factors such as geography, climate, religion, the economy and technology.

~F. Sionil Jose

Topics: Climate Cultural Depends Economy Ethnic Factors Geography Groups How Individuals Influenced Many Much Neutral Religion Technology Them Themselves Universal Use Values Well

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