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If travel were so inspiring and informing a business...then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers, Pullman porters, and Mormon missionaries.

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But let my death be memoried on this disc. Wear it, sweet friend. Inscribe no date nor deed. But let thy heart-beat kiss it night and day, Until the name grow vague and wear away. Wilfred Owen
Convinced that the attachment of colonies to the metropolis, depends infinitely more upon moral and religious feeling, than political arrangement, or even commercial advantage, I cannot but lament that more is not done to instill it into the minds of the people. John Strachan
Those who wish well to the State ought to choose to places of trust men of inward principle, justified by exemplary conversation. John Witherspoon
Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone. Wendell Berry
Joseph Campbell quote: "I don't have to have faith, I have experience."
I don't have to have faith, I have experience. Joseph Campbell
Terry Prachett quote: "Man just went past with a cat on his head,"
Man just went past with a cat on his head, Terry Prachett
George Saintsbury quote: "Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary..."
Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist. George Saintsbury
Stanislaw Lec quote: "Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art."
Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art. Stanislaw Lec
It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it bein your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, fromreligion. John Wooden
That's the problem with news interviews, you work your tail off to get prominent figures in the news on the radio, but once they've been on, the event passes, the urgency, the issues you talked about evaporate. Bob Edwards
I was like Gene Kelly, it was called singing in the rain. No seriously, I wasn't really born with a singing voice, but my friends Joe and John taught me how to sing. Chris Burke
Hail! natural desire! Hail! happiness! divine happiness! and pleasure of all sorts, flowers and wine, though one fades and the other intoxicates; and half-crown tickets out of London on Sundays, and singing in a dark chapel hymns about death, and anything, anything that interrupts and confounds the tapping of typewriters and filing of letters and forging of links and chains, binding the Empire together. Virginia Woolf
Though I love your company, your instructions are wasted her. I will always choose the woman who caries me off, I will always sit with the family of loneliness. Leonard Cohen
Kim Cattrall quote: "Really rejoice in being yourself. Have your own drumbeat."
Really rejoice in being yourself. Have your own drumbeat. Kim Cattrall
But music can save your life sometimes. It probably saved me from working in a bank or something. That's a kind of salvation right there. Richard Thompson