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- Travel, for me, is a little bit like being in love, because suddenly all your senses are at the setting marked “on.
- For me the first great joy of traveling is simply the luxury of leaving all my beliefs and certainties at home, and seeing everything I…
- Travel spins us round in two ways at once: It shows us the sights and values and issues that we might ordinarily ignore; but it…
- A holy day, after all, is a day for considering everything you otherwise think too little about.
- A comma . . . catches the gentle drift of the mind in thought, turning in on itself and back on itself, reversing, redoubling, and…
- What more could one ask of a companion? To be forever new and yet forever steady. To be strange and familiar all at once, with…
- Nearly everybody I know does something to try to remove herself to clear her head and to have enough time and space to think... All…
- One of the happier ironies of recent history is that even as Tibet is being wiped off the map in Tibet itself, here it is…
- Like teenagers, we appear to have gone from knowing nothing about the world to knowing too much all but overnight.
- If we do away with semi-colons, parentheses and much else, we will lose all music, nuance and subtlety in communication - and end up shouting…
- All of us are feeling scattered and distracted as we try to keep up with an accelerating world. But nearly all of us have an…
- More and more of us feel like emergency-room physicians, permanently on call, required to heal ourselves but unable to find the prescription for all the…
- I suppose even when I was growing up, I noticed I was most happy when I was absorbed in something, lost in the moment and…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle