"Travel enables us to enrich our lives with new experiences, to enjoy and to be educated, to learn respect for foreign cultures, to establish friendships, and above all to contribute to international cooperation and peace throughout the world."

-- Jules Verne

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“I could not write my books without the library's help. Even with the ease of Internet research, I find books to be indispensable when I am writing. ... Books make me laugh, cry, and think. They give me insight into history, and into the lives of people in other cultures. They help me make important decisions, and they provide endless entertainment. Hooray for libraries!”
“My parents separated when I was eight. I grew up with my mom alone.”

Source : Interview with Nick Duerden, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2011.
“The propensity to make strong emotional bonds to particular individuals [is] a basic component of human nature”
“When we learn new behaviors and break through to higher levels of consciousness and love, we can fulfill the deeper spiritual hunger within.”
“A gentleman can always be told by the way he speaks to those that he thinks are his inferiors in some respect. His equals he does not wish to offend, his superiors he does not dare to offend, and of those whom he considers his inferiors he would be all the more considerate.”

Source : Fanny Jackson Coppin (1987). “Reminiscences of School Life, and Hints on Teaching”, Facsimiles-Garl
“Just because you're breathing, doesn't mean you're alive.”
“Africaâ€™s story has been written by others; we need to own our problems and solutions and write our story.”
“Anybody is liable to rheumatism in her legs, Anne. It's only old people who should have rheumatism in their souls, though. Thanks goodness, I never have. When you get rheumatism in your soul you might as well go and pick out your coffin.”

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