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“Travel not only stirs the blood. . . It also gives strength to the spirit.”

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Florence Prag Kahn was an American politician born on November 9, 1866, and died on November 16, 1948. She was the first Jewish woman to serve as a U.S. Senator and is known for her work on women's rights and immigration issues. more

“Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of the cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape into an intensification of the conditions of ordinary life, into a deliberate aggravation of those conditions: further from nature, nearer to artifice, to abstraction, to total pollution, to well above average levels of stress, pressure, concentration and monotony - this is the ideal of popular entertainment. No one is interested in overcoming alienation; the point is to plunge into it to the point of ecstasy. That is what holidays are for.”

“A good vacation is over when you begin to yearn for your work.”

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Author:Morris Fishbein

“It isn't how much time you spend somewhere that makes it memorable: it's how you spend the time.”

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Author:David Brenner

“You don't need a vacation when there's nothing to escape from.”

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Author:Jason Mraz

“I need a six month vacation twice a year.”

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Author:Pete MacArthur

“Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.”

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Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.”

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Author:Maxine Waters

“Sadly, some folks want others to feel their pain, to hurt as much as they do-or more. My grandmother once told me to avoid colds and angry people whenever I could. It's sound advice.”

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Author:Walter Inglis Anderson

“Nothing is more powerful than meekness. For as fire is extinguished by water, so a mind inflated by anger is subdued by meekness. By meekness we practice and make known our virtue, and also cause the indignation of our brother to cease, and deliver his mind from perturbation.”

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Author:Saint John Chrysostom

“In the Christian combat, not the striker, as in the Olympic contests, but he who is struck, wins the crown. This is the law in the celestial theatre, where the Angels are the spectators.”

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Author:Saint John Chrysostom

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