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Travel is not really about leaving our homes, but leaving our habits.
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We travel, in essence, to become young fools again - to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love…
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In our appetite for gossip, we tend to gobble down everything before us, only to find, too late, that it is our…
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Silence is something more than just a pause; it is that enchanted place where space is cleared and time is stayed and…
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My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and take me…
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Serendipity was my tour guide, assisted by caprice
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Perhaps the greatest danger of our global community is that the person in LA thinks he knows Cambodia because he's seen The…
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Finding a sanctuary, a place apart from time, is not so different from finding a faith.
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None of the things in life - like love or faith - was arrived at by thinking; indeed, one could almost define…
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Lonely Places, then are the places that are not on international wavelengths, do not know how to carry themselves, are lost when…
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Death undoes us less, sometimes, than the hope that it will never come.
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One curiosity of being a foreigner everywhere is that one finds oneself discerning Edens where the locals see only Purgatory.
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Of course we women gossip on occasion. But our appetite for it is not as avid as a man s. It is…
— Phyllis McGinley
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As we grow older, our capacity for enjoyment shrinks, but not our appetite for it.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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In our appetite for gossip, we tend to gobble down everything before us, only to find, too late, that it is our…
— Pico Iyer
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If we want energy security, then we have to reduce our appetite for fossil fuels. There's no other way. Other issues may…
— Robert Redford
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Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin.
— Emile M. Cioran
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There is a flickering spark in us all which, if struck at just the right age...can light the rest of our lives,…
— Ronald Reagan
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Worship does not satisfy our hunger for God; it whets our appetite.
— Eugene H. Peterson
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The greatest enemy of hunger for God is not poison but apple pie. It is not the banquet of the wicked that…
— John Piper
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How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.
— Eric Hoffer
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We used to flock to watch gladiators, public torture and executions. In more recent times, our appetite for mortal violence has been…
— Kenneth Oppel
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