"Not only does a journey transport us over enormous distances, it also causes us to move a few degrees up or down in the social scale. It displaces us physically and also for better or for worse takes us out of our class context, so that the colour and flavour of certain places cannot be dissociated from the always unexpected social level on which we find ourselves in experiencing them."

-- Claude Levi-Strauss

#Distance Quotes #Moving Quotes #Journey Quotes

“I got my first camera when I was 21 - my boyfriend gave it to me for my birthday - but at that point politics was my life, and I viewed the camera as a tool for expressing my political beliefs rather than as an art medium.”
“There be three sorts of government--monarchical, aristocratical, democratical; and they are apt to fall three several ways into ruin--the first, by tyranny; the second, by ambition; the last, by tumults. A commonwealth grounded upon any one of these is not of long continuance; but, wisely mingled, each guards the other and makes that government exact.”
“Indeed the influence of music on the development of religion is a subject which would repay a sympathetic study.”
“A gold standard is the ideal monetary system for those who create wealth through ingenuity, entrepreneurship, and hard work. Gold standards are disfavored by those who do not create wealth but instead seek to extract wealth from others through inflation, inside information, and market manipulation.”

Source : James Rickards (2014). “The Death of Money: The Coming Collapse of the International Monetary System”, p.156, Penguin
“I almost never slept deeply anymore--as soon as she said my name, I always sat up immediately, no matter how tired I was.”

Source : Cynthia Kadohata (2008). “Kira-Kira”, p.181, Simon and Schuster
“Growing old gracefully used to begin at about 35, but today women prefer to 'stay young gratefully' with thanks to designers, beauticians and plastic surgeons.”
“Education in the West, particularly higher education in America, has lost the ability to see the universe from very far away.”
“My philosophy has always been simple: Believe in yourself.”

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