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“In his book Why Geography Matters, the geographer Harm de Blij argues that the West’s three great challenges of our time—Islamist terrorism, global warming, and the rise of China—are all problems of geography. An informed citizenry has to understand place, not because place is more important than other kinds of knowledge but because it forms the foundation for so much other knowledge.”
― Ken Jennings, Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks

“Human nature. I don’t like human nature, but I do like human beings.”
― Ellen Glasgow, In This Our Life

“There are no easy answers, there's only living through the questions.”
― Elizabeth George, Missing Joseph

“The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.”
― Stanley Fish