"Even in challenging economic times, making sure that study abroad is part of our college students' education is a vital investment. If we want a new generation of leaders and innovators who can be effective in an ever more globalized world, sending our students overseas is not a luxury. It's a necessity."

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Source : "The World Is A Classroom" by Rick Steves, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 1, 2012.

Rick Steves

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“If you watch a movie, it never happens that you see a character that is in every single scene.”
“People place such importance on the external. It's disgusting.”
“I do hope that our spring will be starting shortly and we will all be able to enjoy some sunshine again.”
“I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead.”
“Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.”
“There are people. There are stories. The people think they shape the stories, but the reverse if often closer to the truth. Stories shape the world. They exist independently of people, and in places quite devoid of man, there may yet be mythologies.”
“It was the Lord who put into my mind that fact that it would be possible to sail from here to the Indies. All who heard of my project rejected it with laughter, ridiculing me. There is no question that the inspiration was from the Holy Spirit, because He comforted me with rays of marvelous inspiration from the Holy Scriptures.”
“You never lose a game if the opponent doesn't score.”

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