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• People aren't just paying more to fill their gas tanks or when they pay for their heating bills for their home; they are paying more at the grocery store, on air travel and for many other daily expenses.

  Dan Lipinski

  Travel, Home, Air

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• The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.

  Walter Lippmann

  Travel, Adventure, Usa

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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• The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Friendship, Travel, Fear

  "Don't fall off the mountain". Book by Shirley MacLaine, 1985.

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• It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.151, Penguin

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• Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Art, Travel, Adventure

  "Cakes and Ale, or, The Skeleton in the Cupboard" by W. Somerset Maugham, (p. 310), 1930.

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• The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans.

  Christa McAuliffe

  Travel, Space, House

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• I considered becoming a priest very seriously. I wanted to travel the world. By the time I turned 16, I realized I was only in it for selfish reasons. And, more importantly, I didn't want to sacrifice the ladies!

  James McAvoy

  Travel, Selfish, Sacrifice

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• Besides, I'm a gypsy at heart and I like to travel around.

  Reba McEntire

  Travel, Heart, Gypsy

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. December 25, 2005.

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• The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Photography, Travel, Encounters

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.

  Herman Melville

  Travel, World, Pay

  Herman Melville (2016). “Moby Dick (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.31, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men.

  Maria Mitchell

  Travel, Men, Two

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• We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.

  Maria Mitchell

  Country, Travel, Inspiration

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.

  James A. Baldwin

  Travel, Discovery, Europe

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.

  John Hope Franklin

  Travel, Journey, African American

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• Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.

  Lewis Mumford

  Travel, Mean, Cooking

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• I think that travel comes from some deep urge to see the world, like the urge that brings up a worm in an Irish bog to see the moon when it is full.

  Lord Dunsany

  Travel, Moon, Thinking

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• I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything.

  Bill Bryson

  Inspirational, Funny, Country

  FaceBook post by Bill Bryson from Sep 01, 2012

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• I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.

  Jose Saramago

  Travel, Writing, Order

  "A Writer's Progress: An Interview with Nobel Prize-Winning Portuguese Novelist José Saramago". Interview with Anna Klobucka, masshumanities.org. Spring 2002.

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• Know how to travel from your town to a nearby town without a car, either by bus or by rail.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Travel, Car, Towns

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• Without travel I would have wound up a little ignorant white Southern female, which was not my idea of a good life.

  Lauren Hutton

  Travel, Good Life, Ideas

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• Now my eyes are turned from the South to the North, and I want to lead one more Expedition. This will be the last... to the North Pole.

  Ernest Shackleton

  Travel, Eye, Want

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• To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Travel, Vacation, Carpe Diem

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.249, Transaction Publishers

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• The life you have led doesn't need to be the only life you have.

  Anna Quindlen

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• No matter where you go, there you are. (Uriel to Harry Dresden)

  Jim Butcher

  Being Yourself, Travel, Clever

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• Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.

  Paul Theroux

  Travel, Feelings, Mind

  Paul Theroux (2006). “The Great Railway Bazaar”, p.229, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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