James Cook
James Cook
Captain James Cook FRS RNwas a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy. Cook made detailed maps of Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the Pacific Ocean, during which he achieved the first recorded European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands, and the first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionExplorer
Date of Birth27 October 1728
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We are destroying capitalism to pay for socialism.
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What is still more to our shame as civilized Christians, we debauch their morals already too prone to vice, and we introduce among them wants and perhaps disease which they never before knew and which serve only to disturb that happy tranquility which they and their forefathers enjoyed. If anyone denies the truth of this assertion, let him tell me what the natives of the whole extent of America have gained by the commerce they have had with Europeans.
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It's impossible for a dishonest person to grow rich in business.
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Money without wisdom diminishes the pleasure and enjoyment of wealth.
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Governments institutionalize something for nothing.
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People who never seen to learn claim the government can be made more efficient.
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The most practical information about life is sneered at by social planners.
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If you want the best results in an organization, you must rely solely on merit.
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Prayer is futility when compared to belief.
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Perhaps the greatest difference among people is between those who never have to worry about money and those who do.
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Capitalists have done more good for society through their charitable giving, philanthropy and generosity than all their critics combined.
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Liars seldom believe anyone else.
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The one thing that flies in the face of all human history and experience, is that the government can do a superior job than the private sector.
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To use ones religion as a rationalization for lack of financial success demeans that faith.