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“Travelling the road will tell you more about the road than the google will tell you about the road.”

“Be a true traveller, don't be a temporary tourist.”

“Trekking means a travelling experience with a thrilling excitement.”

“For their never-ending endeavours to obtain or retain wealth, countries desperately need companies, because they—unlike most human beings—have the means of production, and human beings, because they—unlike all companies—have the means of reproduction.”

“Although they probably know that some children were used and some children are used as miners, most adults are ignorant of the chocolate industry’s use of minors.”

“He who sacrifices his respect for love basically burns his body to obtain the light.”

“Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism.”

“More often than not, an inspirational or motivational speaker is someone who makes money from telling us that we can do all of the things that we can do … and pretty much all of the things that we cannot do.”

“Respect cannot be inherited, respect is the result of right actions.”

“Parents expect only two things from their children, obedience in their childhood and respect in their adulthood.”

“As an unavoidable result of the inevitable loss of some physical and/or some mental abilities, many a man who has been alive for many years has become a boy again.”

“Not everyone who talks less or keeps quiet whenever they are with or around you does that because they find you interesting or knowledgeable; some people do that because they find you boring or ignorant.”

“In a democracy, there will be more complaints but less crisis, in a dictatorship more silence but much more suffering.”

“As we all know, as if forever exploiting or attempting to exploit each other were not enough, a group of sane human beings who have just reached the end of a war against a common enemy of theirs will sooner or later start or continue killing and/or fighting against each other.”

“Most human beings strongly believe that money is way less important than the life of a human being, but in reality five hundred, fifty, or even five dollars are way more important to the lives of most human beings than the lives of most human beings.”

“Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human being or pretending to be pained by that.”

“Unless they are off duty, no matter how wide it is, and even when it is sincere, a smile seems fake if the job description of the person who is smiling includes smiling.”

“Any girl with a grin never looks grim.”

“Some of us can live without a society but not without a family.”

“In united families, they might sleep with half filled stomach but no one sleeps with empty stomach.”

“You can take the Indian out of the family, but you cannot take the family out of the Indian.”

“Don't compare the size of your roof with the size of the sky.”

“An invention is a responsibility of the individual, society cannot invent, it can only applaud the invention and inventor.”

“We, in the interest of the so-called progress, have been persuaded to leave the production and at times the cooking of our food to companies whose owners and employees make a living by exploiting our busyness or laziness and our innate hunger to continue living.”

“Some people would have killed themselves and/or someone else if they were single; and some people would not have done that.”

“Before you worry about the beauty of your body, worry about the health of your body.”

“Hunger gives flavour to the food.”

“Some people when they see cheese, chocolate or cake they don't think of calories.”

“Don't always use prudence for precaution, sometimes use it for progress.”

“Anger gets you into trouble, ego keeps you in trouble.”

“Sacrifice of the self is sheer stupidity if sacrifice is not for the self.”

“Loneliness tortures many if not most of the elderly more intensely and more frequently than it torments many if not most of us who will never be or have not yet been pushed or pulled into old age.”

“Being bored is the price we pay for not being insane.”

“Most men would no longer enjoy conversing with most women if they stopped bringing their vaginas along.”

“It's time to shop high heels if your fiance kisses you on the forehead.”

“No tricks, no tools, but talent makes a task truly top class.”

“With regard to things such as independence, mental capabilities, and sexuality, a very old man is nothing but a gigantic infant with white hair and wrinkles.”

“Most of us cling to life as if our existence were a result of our deed or choice.”

“Many millions of pregnancies—many if not most of which have each led to the birth of at least one child—were each used as nothing but a conspicuous means to a secret end called the evasion of abortion.”

“More often than not, expecting to lose weight without first losing the diet that made the weight loss necessary is like expecting a pig to be spotless after hosing it down while it was still rolling in mud.”

“Famine sometimes increases the number of people who are overweight.”

“If the food that one ate the night before were somehow able to be seen and identified through one’s clothes throughout the day, millions of employees would each fast ten or so days before their payday.”