Amerigo Vespucci quotes
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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”
-- Amerigo VespucciSource : Amerigo Vespucci (1916). “Letter to Piero Soderini, Gonfaloniere: The Year 1504”
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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 VespucciSource : Mundus Novus (1503) (translation by G. T. Northup)
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“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 VespucciSource : Amerigo Vespucci (1992). “Letters of the Four Voyages to the New World”
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“Nationality is the creative power of human culture, culture is the creative power of nationality.”
Source : "Naţionalitatea în artă ("Nationality in Art")". Naţionalitatea în artă ("Nationality in Art") by A. C. Cuza, Bucureşti: Cartea Romaneasca, 1905.
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“Islam's laws are fixed and that is why Islam is stable.”
Source : "'We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical'". Interview with Farish A. Noor, theseoultimes.com.
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“Life, at its best, is a flowing, changing process in which nothing is fixed.”
Source : Carl Rogers (2012). “On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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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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