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“To take a journey of a thousand miles, you have to begin with the first step from the place where you stand; the romantic description of the journey and the things the body sees on the way and the description of the scenery are of no use unless you lift your foot and take the first step.”

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Book:Blossoms of Friendship

Source: Blossoms of Friendship

“There is no other article for individual use so universally known or widely distributed. In my travels I have found [the safety razor] in the most northern town in Norway and in the heart of the Sahara Desert.”

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Author:King C. Gillette

“The uses of travel are occasional, and short; but the best fruit it finds, when it finds it, is conversation; and this is a main function of life.”

Use Conversation Travel Function Fruit Occasional

Book:Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life

Source: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life

“When you are waiting for a train, don't keep perpetually looking to see if it is coming. The time of its arrival is the business of the conductor, not yours. It will not come any sooner for all your nervous glances and your impatient pacing, and you will save strength if you will keep quiet. After we discover that the people who sit still on a long railroad journey reach that journey's end at precisely the same time as those who "fuss" continually, we have a valuable piece of information which we should not fail to put to practical use.”

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Author:Anna Brackett

“The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.”

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes

“The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

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Author:Nelson Mandela

“Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places.”

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Author:Paul Theroux

“Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough Gleams that untraveled world whose margin fades Forever and forever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life!”

World Ends Use Moving Forever Travel Shining Breathe Dull Fades Pauses Margins Rust Gleam Arches Ulysses

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“The kind of pace that you want to use in a Western - just to acknowledge the land in the distance that everyone has to travel, and the way things develop sort of slowly - it's almost the antithetical of what's currently going on in the movies, you know.”

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Author:Lawrence Kasdan

“It seems people are more willing to let other people control their minds now and recreational drug use doesn't seem to have that same renegade sense of adventure that it once did.”

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Author:Marc Maron

“The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality.”

Source: Johnsoniana; or supplement to Boswell; being Anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, etc

“Airline hostesses show you how to use a seatbelt in case you haven't been in a car since 1965.”

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Author:Jerry Seinfeld