"In the mountains, travelers were reduced to the speed of men on foot. Here, the ancient English sense of journey, 'a day's travel' (French journee), meant the same as the Old Persian word farsang, 'the distance a man could travel on foot in a day,' and the territory was in effect ungovernable."

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Source : Rory Stewart (2009). “The Places In Between”, p.92, Pan Macmillan

Rory Stewart

#Distance Quotes #Journey Quotes #Men Quotes

“Once your mind stretches to a new level it never goes back to its original dimension”
“You donâ€™t have to have vision to be a visionary”
“I stopped caring what people thought.”
“There is a God and He is good, and his love, while free, has a self imposed cost: We must be good to one another.”
“Wakolda or The German Doctor is a very intimate story. It is the story of a teenage girl and the way she falls in love with a monster. It is the story of a hunt and of a seduction.”
“Information on the Internet must be as free as in the newspapers.”
“I never deny a true experience in one shot.”

Source : "Watch: Why Golden Globe Winner Alejandro González Iñárritu Took Risks on ‘Birdman’". Interview with Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. January 12, 2015.
“Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.”

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