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- We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century. During the period we may be tempted to abandon some of the time-honored principles and commitments which have been proven during the difficult times of past generations. We must never yield to this temptation. Our American values are not luxuries, but necessities - not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself.
- Jimmy Carter (1924 - ), in his farewell address
- Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918 - )
- He who would travel happily must travel light.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944)
- When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.
- Clifton Fadiman (1904 - 1999)
- Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.
- Dinah Shore (1917 - 1994)
- Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.
- Charles A. Dana (1819 - 1897)
- What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.
- Martina Horner, President of Radcliffe College
- Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age.
- George Burns (1896 - 1996)
- To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - and to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love.
- Karl von Bonstetten
- If you would not step into the harlot's house, do not go by the harlot's door.
- Thomas Secker
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