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Meriwether Lewis Quotes

On the acquisition of Louisiana, in the year 1803, the attention of the government of the United States, was early directed towards exploring and improving the new territory.

Meriwether Lewis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: explorer
Nationality: american
Birth: August 18, 1774 - October 11, 1809

Topics

Government Year Attention Early New

People say, 'Are you insane?' But the most successful climbers are the most calculating, with the most refined sense of risk. They're hyper-conscious of safety. They're the least insane people I know.

Jimmy Chin

People Safety You Know Say Risk

Oppression thrives on distance - on not actually meeting or seeing the oppressed.

Robert J. Shiller

Seeing Meeting Distance Oppression

The iPhone was such a phenomenon that even the humble journalists chosen for an early look were thrust into a spotlight.

Steven Levy

Humble Look Early iPhone Spotlight

Some people say I've got a five-octave range, which is ridiculous. That would mean I'd sing like Mariah Carey or that alien in 'The Fifth Element.' And I'm nothing like that blue alien. I've got a range of about 3 1/2 octaves.

Mika

Blue People Alien Say Nothing Mean

Unfortunately, it happens all too seldom that you really disappear behind a work, that you are no longer audible as an interpreter.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Work You Disappear Behind Happens

I think it's extremely important that children are exposed to reading.

Diana Gabaldon

Children Reading Think Important

I'm not the geek in the family: I'm the organizer. But what I do know is that we have a very terrific team of consultants, former federal cybersecurity experts who are working with us to make sure we have a very safe system.

Donna Brazile

Family Team Know Safe System Sure

I hoped that being attracted to men might go away, but what I never ever hoped would go away were the feelings of femininity, and of softness and fragility, that could live inside of a boy. They were private, but they were mine.

Arca

Live Men Feelings Go Boy Never

I loved Stephen Wright, and I loved Mitch Hedberg, but they seemed like geniuses you could never emulate. You'd just be ripping them off.

Anthony Jeselnik

Loved You Never Off Just Like

We have been talking with leaders: Change is coming; you can no longer have a closed regime with an open society - satellites, social media, the Internet - you have this kind, this kind of society moving forward, and you are running this closed regime; this is not sustainable. This cannot continue.

Ali Babacan

Change Social Media Moving Forward

I'm coming from the notion that acting is an art. It is not a business. It is about building characters, not about selling personalities.

William Hurt

Business Art Building Acting Selling

Trinidad is a great fighter; he's exciting, and he goes in tough. His roster of opponents includes Pernell Whitaker, Oscar De La Hoya, David Reid, Fernando Vargas, and Hopkins. It's hard to imagine Felix being in a boring fight.

Thomas Hauser

Great Fight Tough Fighter Boring He