Top 100 James Cook's Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About James Cook's

#1. Captain James Cook's ship, The Endeavour, hit a coral outcrop in the Great Barrier Reef in 1770. Cook and his crew camped in what is now called Cooktown for nearly two months while making repairs. Then they sailed south, where Cook claimed the east coast of Australia as British territory.

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#2. Taxes cause the most bad business decisions.

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#3. Suffering perfects the soul.

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#4. There is no help from without, only from within.

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#5. Independent thinkers are usually geniuses or idiots and at times it's hard to tell which.

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#6. A single charitable foundation started by one capitalist does more good than a world full of socialists and leftists. Think Carnegie and his libraries, or Sloan and Kettering their hospital, or Gates in Africa.

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#7. Investors believe in the best possible outcome.

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#8. in which great difficulties are found to the present day by Englishmen, whose language presents no certain laws for rendering any given sound into a fixed combination of letters.

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#9. Hardly anything works out as well as we hope.

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#10. Government regulators are another name for police.

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#11. A thinker reverses roles and sees the perspectives of others.

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#12. The Dick tells us that Denny once worked on some arson cases, but I'd wager a mortgage payment that those cases took place when you created fire by rubbing two sticks together so you could cook the stegosaurus you killed with a spear and dragged back to the cave.

James Patterson

#13. The left controls the media, the institutions of higher learning and the government. They preach against business, disparate merit, decry free enterprise and slander capitalism.

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#14. You cannot rectify grievances from the past with today's charity.

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#15. Rich grandparents get more attention than poor grandparents.

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#16. Prayer is futility when compared to belief.

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#17. Here we raise his children for him, cook for him, bring up his crops, butcher his hogs - even fight his wars for him - and he still won't acknowledge our existence.

James Sallis

#18. To enslave a people, give them money they didn't earn.

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#19. The liberal agenda is the blueprint for national ruin.

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#20. All the warnings the founding fathers gave us about government proved to be true. We should have listened.

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#21. The only reasonable outcome of a nation's sins is to learn not to repeat them.

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#22. You are never giving, nor can you ever give, enough service.

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#23. Advice from others is always filtered through self interest.

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#24. What is written is more influential than what is said.

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#25. The most practical information about life is sneered at by social planners.

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#26. What drives intellectuals and professors crazy is somebody with a high school diploma who made a fortune in business. They agree with Lenin, who thought success in business was a matter of luck, when in reality it is a matter of genius.

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#27. Nothing's worse than a business person who sells out to the left, if you're a capitalist, stand up and be counted.

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#28. When you cook, you never stop learning.
That's the fascination of it all.

James Beard

#29. It's nearly impossible for a criminal to come from a good mother.

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#30. It's a vain hope to believe that people will voluntarily turn their back on government subsidies.

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#31. Socialism is the triumph of people's prejudices over their reason.

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#32. We should worry about our own souls first and trust in God's plan for others.

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#33. It's impossible for a dishonest person to grow rich in business.

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#34. Get a grip, Haskell. Find a target, blast it, cook up an alibi. What's complicated about that?

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#35. Our contemporary brand of socialism has one fatal flaw. It's too expensive. When you try to shower benefits on so many recipients, you eventually must resort to subterfuge. Foremost among those tricks is money and credit expansion. Inevitably, you debase your currency.

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#36. At the very least, people who get subsidies should have to get up in the morning and do something, even if it's a make work job. But most liberals would oppose even this simple test of responsibility.

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#37. Gasahol is socialism's fuel.

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#38. Let one state in the U.S. be free of government and overnight you would have an economic powerhouse.

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#39. The Hollywood left insists on painting business persons as arch criminals, even though it's ridiculous. They like to depict free enterprise, capitalism and business leaders as a source of evil and criminality. Somehow they think that will influence enough people to further their left-wing agenda.

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#40. Government is full of people who think they know what's best for others and can rationalize compelling them to accept it.

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#41. Think too much and you start to panic. Better to keep moving.

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#42. There is a reason and not a reason for everything.

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#43. The fundamental laws of human nature are overlooked by social planners.

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#44. In the polling booth narrow self interest wins out over lofty principles.

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#45. Private charity discourages poverty while public subsidies encourage it.

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#46. Government is not competent enough to regulate.

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#47. Getting is more fun than having.

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#48. Without memory there are no worries.

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#49. The more welfare, the more crime.

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#50. No resource will flourish if managed by government.

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#51. Employers know the nature of people best.

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#52. Worry not so much about other peoples morals but more about your own.

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#53. With socialized medicine, the trick is not to die while waiting for treatment.

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#54. When government tries to make people more equal, it makes them more unequal.

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#55. The power of faith to ease our suffering is God's love.

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#56. Nothing is more difficult than to make a profit.

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#57. It's not up to God for us to use the gift of faith.

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#58. No role in life is more important than to be a good mother.

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#59. If you get a job or promotion because of your race or gender, it is no different than a subsidy. You get something you didn't earn, 'something for nothing.'

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#60. Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go.

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#61. The foremost corporate responsibility is to serve others so well you produce a profit.

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#62. In any given age it is only a few extremists who are right.

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#63. Liberals fostered the subsidies that have converted so many citizens to helplessness. They have made high taxes and big government a way of life. They have corrupted the politicians into believing that in order to be elected to office, they must dispense benefits.

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#64. The welfare system is the breeding ground of crime, addiction and radical politics.

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#65. The longer people receive economic assistance, the worse their social condition and behavior.

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#66. From an economic standpoint, liberalism is a greater threat to America than communism ever was.

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#67. The more money spent by government to address social injustice the greater the cries of social injustice.

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#68. When your mind tries to verify a preconceived notion you can miss the obvious.

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#69. Perhaps the greatest difference among people is between those who never have to worry about money and those who do.

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#70. Most everything government does is worse than useless.

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#71. Time flies when you're running out of money.

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#72. Liberals have one solution for every economic issue; eat the seed corn.

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#73. Unions are at a disadvantage in a company vote because the employees can see that the greatest advocates of unionization are often the malcontents and marginal workers.

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#74. The more noteworthy a person's achievements, the more government agents are attracted to investigating that person.

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#75. I could not help concluding this man had the most supreme pleasure while he was driven so fast and so smoothly by the sea.

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#76. Inflation makes the wealthiest people richer and the masses poorer.

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#77. Whatever you subsidize you get more of.

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#78. Knaves will come and knaves will go.

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#79. Doubt makes us reaffirm what we believe.

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#80. Apparently there's nothing more dangerous than a religious criminal.

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#81. Everybody lives an epic.

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#82. That which you worry about most in life is seldom bad, and that likely applies to dying.

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#83. A free ride is life's most difficult journey.

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#84. From what I have said of the natives of New Holland they may appear to some to be the most wretched people upon earth but in reality they are far happier than we Europeans, being wholly unacquainted not only with the superfluous, but

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