"The great and recurrent question about Abroad is, is it worth the trouble of getting there?"

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Source : Rose Macaulay (2011). “Personal Pleasures”, p.5, A&C Black

#Travel Quotes #Trouble Quotes

“The fuel light's on, Frank! We're all going to die! Wait, wait... Oh, my mistake - that's the intercom light.”
“In the conduct of almost every affair slowness and procrastination are hateful”
“The Athens Olympics will be meaningful even though I cannot participate as an athlete, since I can participate in the flame relay all over the world.”
“When I run in the morning, my body spends the first 20 minutes trying to figure out what's happening to it.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Now any dogma, based primarily on faith and emotionalism, is a dangerous weapon to use on others, since it is almost impossible to guarantee that the weapon will never be turned on the user.”
“Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral.”
“In those days, man, in the '50s, black people in the South... We didn't recognize contracts that much. And we didn't recognize marriages that much, either.”
“The marvelous thing is that even in studying linguistics, we find that the universe as a whole is patterned, ordered, and to some degree intelligible to us.”

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