"One can only really travel if one lets oneself go and takes what every place brings without trying to turn it into a healthy private pattern of one's own and I suppose that is the difference between travel and tourism."

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Freya Stark

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“The modern technological world appears overwhelming to many people. It drives some to pessimism and despair. It makes others doubt the future of mankind unless we retreat to simpler lives and even to the ways of our ancestors. What these people fail to realize is that we cannot go back to those ways and those days. Furthermore, for all our difficulties, life today is far better for more people and the possibilities for the future can be brighter than ever if we develop not only new knowledge, but a greater faith and confidence in the human mind and spirit.”
“In this life you have to be your own hero. By that I mean you have to win whatever it is that matters to you by your own strength and in your own way. Like it or not, you are alone in a forest, just like all those fairy tales that begin with a hero whoâ€™s usually stupid but somehow brave, or who might be clever, but weak as a straw, and away he goes (donâ€™t worry about the gender), cheered on by nobody, via the castles and the bears, and the old witch and the enchanted stream, and by and by (we hope) heâ€™ll find the treasure.”

Source : Jeanette Winterson (2013). “The Powerbook”, p.155, Random House
“I think I am becoming obsessive-compulsive. David Beckham apparently turns all the Diet Coke cans in his fridge to face the same way every morning, and I nerdily sharpen all the pencils in my pot before sitting down to work.”

Source : "Writers' rooms: Andrew O'Hagan" by Andrew O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2007.
“I chose to go to Arizona, because it was an opportunity to make something that I've never done. To work with different people and to have a good time when you're recording and to not have the whole thing be some sort of editing process in front of a computer, but to actually try and capture some sort of spirit.”

Source : Source: www.coltoneddy.com
“If it's not tested, it's broken.”

Source : Bruce Eckel (2003). “Thinking in Java”, p.993, Prentice Hall Professional
“Poverty is from the devil and that God wants all Christians prosperous.”
“Remember: Bureaucracy elevates conformity ... Make that elevates 'fatal stupidity' to the status of religion.”
“Extend your mercy towards others, so that there can be no one in need whom you meet without helping. For what hope is there for us if God should withdraw His Mercy from us?”

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