"The fact that television and tourism have made the whole world accessible has created the illusion that we enjoy intimate knowledge of other places, when we barely scratch their surface. For the vast majority, the knowledge of Thailand or Sri Lanka acquired through tourism consists of little more than the whereabouts of the beach."

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Source : "We are globalised, but have no real intimacy with the rest of the world" by Martin Jacques, www.theguardian.com. April 16, 2006.

Martin Jacques

#Beach Quotes #Sri Lanka Quotes #Tourism Quotes

“I really don't like coke. It's so gross and so dark. It's like, what are you, from the '90s? Ew,”
“No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.”

Source : "The New York Comics And Picture-story Symposium: Jennifer George And Charles Kochman", therumpus.net. March 4, 2014.
“With faint praises one another damn.”

Source : The Plain Dealer prologue (1677) See Pope 32
“We have thought of peace as the passive and war as the active way of living. The opposite is true. War is not the most strenuous life. It is a kind of rest-cure compared to the task of reconciling our differences.”
“Few persons enjoy real liberty; we are all slaves to ideas or habits.”
“I don't understand why people really get upset about something that doesn't affect them at all.”
“Even bad teams have optimism. You don't want to take away the optimism so early in the season. The Bad News Bears coach wouldn't even tell (his team) that.”
“Learning how to interact with customers is something that anyone starting any business must master. It's an amazing opportunity to be able to learn the ropes at an established company and then employ your expertise at your own company.”

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