"For some reason, we see long-term travel to faraway lands as a recurring dream or an exotic temptation, but not something that applies to the here and now. Instead — out of our insane duty to fear, fashion, and monthly payments on things we don't really need — we quarantine our travels to short, frenzied bursts."

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Source : Rolf Potts (2002). “Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel”, p.9, Ballantine Books

Rolf Potts

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“Entrepreneurship is the freedom to do what you want, when you want, how you want.”

Source : Source: theimarketingcafe.com
“My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death.”
“Always there has been an adventure just around the corner--and the world is still full of corners.”

Source : Roy Chapman Andrews (2013). “Under a Lucky Star - A Lifetime of Adventure”, p.248, Read Books Ltd
“I'm putting you in Dink Meeker's toon. From now on, as far as you're concerned, Dink Meeker is God." "Then who are you?" "The personnel officer who hired God.”
“Ever since I first used a computer in the early '80s, I've thought of it as a fundamentally new medium for the dissemination of ideas which can transform people's lives and the society we live in.”

Source : "What Drives You? 10 Top Tech Mavericks tell us what drives them and why". ORIGIN Magazine Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“The little things that you saw with a childâ€™s eye and that will never go away. Thatâ€™s what consciousness is all about.”
“Armstrong has no place in cycling.”
“We cannot improve the world if we are conformed to the world.”

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