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Perhaps
travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all
peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the
idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become
friends.
* Maya Angelou
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The
worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize
you as a tourist.
* Russell Baker
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What
childishness is it that while there's breath of life
in our bodies, we are determined to rush
to see the sun the other way around?
* Elizabeth Bishop
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The
traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people,
of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects
interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sight-seeing."
* Daniel J. Boorstin
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I
am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead
of reading about them, and of the bitter effects of staying
at home with all the narrow prejudices of an Islander, that
I think there should be a law amongst us to set our young men
abroad for a term among the few allies our wars have left us.
* Lord Byron
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The
whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it
is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.
* G. K. Chesterton
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Travellers
never think that THEY are the foreigners.
* Mason Cooley
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Your
true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful.
It is the symbol of his liberty-- his excessive freedom. He
accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically,
but almost with pleasure.
* Aldous Huxley
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The
use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and
instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
* Samuel Johnson
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If
we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we
are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but
rather a new way of looking at things.
* Henry Miller
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Against
my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything
worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In
this respect my travels were very useful to me.
* Bertrand Russell
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Travel
is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than
the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he
has seen in Hong-Kong.
* Vita Sackville-West
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Life
on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical
condition of healthy life except fresh air...It is a guzzling,
lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement
is irritability.
* George Bernard Shaw
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A
journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to
think you control it.
* John Steinbeck
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For
my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for
travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
* Robert Louis Stevenson
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I
have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether
you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
* Mark Twain
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No
one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home
and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.
* Lin Yutang
