"The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that."

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Source : Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.103, Knopf Books for Young Readers

Norton Juster

#Travel Quotes #Philosophy Quotes #Journey Quotes

“The problem, of course, was that people did not seem to understand the difference between right and wrong. They needed to be reminded about this, because if you left it to them to work out for themselves, they would never bother. They would just find out what was best for them, and then they would call that the right thing. That's how most people thought.”
“If we spent as much time feeling positive about getting older, as we do trying to stay young, how much different our lives would be.”
“Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farm workers can become the president of a great nation. It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.”

Source : FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from Jan 11, 2017
“It is the height of stupidity to claim that men who for a thousand years have had the power to berate us, to fleece us and to oppress us with impunity, will now agree, with good grace, to be our equals.”
“Hay fever suffers tend to be above average in intelligence,...”

Source : "The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know". Book by Andrew Tobias, 1982.
“All my trust in the politicians had been rubbed away.”

Source : "Turkey: Challenges of Continuity and Change". Book by Meliha Altunisik and Özlem Tür, 2005.
“The thing I love about reporting is being able to blend in with any group, whether that's neo-Nazis or pedophiles.”
“I do believe that everything happens for a reason. We're not on Earth by accident. Things don't happen in your life for no reason.”

Source : "Miami Dolphins receiver Davone Bess on his recent trip to Costa Rica, God’s purpose for his life and The Bess Route Foundation". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. June 2011.

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