"The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere, so that his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of comparison for his observations."

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George Santayana

#Travel Quotes #Character Quotes #May Quotes

“I like the noise of democracy.”
“Every author has different ways of writing and what works for one author does not necessarily work for another.”
“First in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a - village, the "tough" among cities, a spectacle for the nation.”

Source : Lincoln Steffens (2012). “The Shame of the Cities”, p.163, Courier Corporation
“I am convinced that nothing we do is more important than hiring and developing people. At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies.”
“If we insist upon trying to imagine Him, we end with an idol, made not with hands but with thoughts; and an idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.”
“It was tricky [to write about Israelis], because everyone has an opinion about the Arab - Israeli conflict, and when I first started writing these stories, I was working for an Arab - Israeli human rights group. It was during the Second Intifada. It was this totally violent and intense time, and I think there's a part of me where I don't know how to write about that situation without getting my politics out of my messages, and that's something that was important for me not to do in this book.”
“Knowing the right questions is better than having all the right answers.”
“Because, Cat, itâ€™s the feminine persuasion thatâ€™s always the deadliest.”

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