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"13 A. A. GILL Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 28 June 1954. Died: 10 December 2016 | Writer |
Knowledge acquired outdoors always seems to have a greater, hardier wisdom than the stuff you find at a desk on a computer.
Knowledge Greater Wisdom Acquired
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You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.

Point Africa World Draw
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America didn’t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be.

America Civilization Profound Change
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respect to the Indians, because the very idea of America belongs to immigrants.
Respect Idea America Belong
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When you’re a visitor to a city, you like to hurry up the habits, lay down a pattern, gain predictability in place of roots.

City Habit Pattern Gain
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America has always understood that it is defined by what it stands against more than what it stands for.

Always Define Stand More
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Most journeys in all of the world start not with bright expectations, a sense of adventure or a bucket and spade, but an empty stomach.

Journey World Bucket Stomach
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Europe is a place that conserves. It maintains, it curates its civilization, protects it against the ravages and rust of other cultures, and the rot of time and intellectual theft. We are a continent

Europe Conserve Rust Fear
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The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.

Looser Interesting Adult Losers
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Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.

Expecting World Treat Fairly
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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Wait Everything Right Perfect
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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
Happiness Depends Quality Thought
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Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
Beware False Knowledge Dangerous
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A. A. GILL Quotes & Sayings