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“Boston: Clear out eight hundred thousand people and preserve it as a museum piece. New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it.”

People Home Clear Pieces Modern New York Thousand Travel Hundred Prison Eight Preserves Abandon Museums Towers Boston Soap Whiskey Posters Pittsburgh

Author:Frank Lloyd Wright

“Once every hundred years, the Los Angeles smog rolls away for a single night, leaving the air as clean as interstellar space. That way the gods can see if Los Angeles is still there. If it is, they roll the smog back so they won't have to look at it.”

Ifs Way Years Looks Stills Home Night Space Air Travel Hundred Clean Leaving Los Angeles Interstellar Smog

Author:Larry Niven

“For the profit of travel: in the first place, you get rid of a few prejudices.... The prejudiced against color finds several hundred millions of people of all shades of color, and all degrees of intellect, rank, and social worth, generals, judges, priests, and kings, and learns to give up his foolish prejudice.”

Source: Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860: Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition

“Men read maps better than women because only men can understand the concept of an inch equaling a hundred miles.”

Men Humor Travel Hundred Concepts Miles Birthday Maps Inches

Author:Roseanne Barr

“Every hundred feet the world changes”

World Inspirational Feet Travel Hundred Changing The World Great Travel Feet And Travel

Author:Roberto Bolano

“No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection.”

Ifs Knows Men Want Years Persons Long Names Walks Teach Teacher Quiet Travel Hundred Mirrors Who You Are Medicine Brave Glasses Miles Bitter About Yourself Great Teacher

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.”

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Book:Arrowsmith: Elmer Gantry ; Dodsworth

Source: Arrowsmith: Elmer Gantry ; Dodsworth

“Everyone of a hundred thousand cities around the world had its own special sunset and it was worth going there, just once, if only to see the sun go down.”

Ifs World Cities Sun Special Thousand Travel Hundred Around The World Sunset

Book:Coin Locker Babies

Source: Coin Locker Babies

“I took Laura on a trip once where we followed the Immigrant Trail for about six hundred miles. She really learned a lesson. People forget too often how it was back then.”

People Forget Walking Lessons Travel Six Hundred Miles Immigrants Trails Laura

Author:Bruce Dern

“For here, am I sitting in a tin can, far above the world. Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing I can do... Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles, I'm feeling very still - and I think my spaceship knows which way to go. Tell my wife I love her very much.”