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Through bitter experience I have learned that it is best to promise little and then to reward hard work with generosity.
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Contemplation is a luxury, requiring time and alternatives.
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If hot food is they key to maintaining an expedition's stamina, then low grade gut-rot alcohol is the key to sustaining its…
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Stories are not like the real world; they aren't held back by what we know is false or true. What's important is…
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Believe, and what was impossible becomes possible what at first was hidden becomes visible.
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Searching for a lost city is a particularly European obsession.
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For my father there was no sharper way to understand a country than by listening to its stories.
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Enlightenment, and the death which comes before it, is the primary business of Varanasi.
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I believe that Marrakech ought to be earned as a destination. The journey is the preparation for the experience. Reaching it too…
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Real travel is not about the highlights with which you dazzle your friends once you're home. It's about the loneliness, the solitude,…
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To be selfless, you would give charity anonymously, walj softly on the earth, and look out for others-even total strangers-before you look…
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Close your senses and the imagination comes alive. It's inside us all, dulled by endless television reruns and by a society that…
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Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls.
— Emile M. Cioran
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In 1963 ... The Vatican condemned Dr. No as a 'dangerous mixture of violence, vulgarity, sadism and sex.' Ka-ching!
— Manohla Dargis
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The persecution of Jews in occupied Poland meant that we could see horror emerging gradually in many ways. In 1939, they were…
— Oskar Schindler
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I hated the brutality, the sadism, and the insanity of Nazism. I just couldn't stand by and see people destroyed. I did…
— Oskar Schindler
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Any man who has ever led an army, an expedition, or a group of Boy Scouts has sadism in his bones.
— Tahir Shah
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Chickenshit refers to behavior that makes military life worse than it need be: petty harassment of the weak by the strong; open…
— Paul Fussell
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Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and…
— Alice Miller
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These political passions are born of a hunger so deep that it touches on the spiritual. Or they were for me, and…
— Lierre Keith
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When blended with sexuality, the death instinct is transformed into more harmless impulses expressed in sadism or masochism.
— Erich Fromm
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Pleasure is sweetest when 'tis paid for by another's pain.
— Ovid
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Tears gratify a savage nature, they do not melt it.
— Publilius Syrus
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Those who fought know a secret about themselves, and it is not very nice. They have experienced secretly and privately their natural…
— Paul Fussell
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