"Only a man who has his health, a full stomach and wears clean clothes would ever entertain the notion of tracking down the greatest lost city on Earth."

Privilege, Exploration, Adventure, Comfort

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"Only a man who has his health, a full stomach and wears clean clothes would ever entertain the notion of tracking down the greatest lost city on Earth."

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"You are not permitted to suffer what others suffer, you are not permitted to fail or die young."

Jaachynma N.E. Agu, Nigerian Author

Privilege, Suffering, Comparison, Failure, Life

"If I have never had, or worse yet, I have lost the conviction that life (despite all of the blows it wields and the savagery that it spawns) is nonetheless an incalculable privilege, I will have in that single loss forfeited the whole of my life and effectively wiped out any hope that I can or will do anything other than exist."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

Privilege, Regret, Truth, Wisdom, Inspirational

"When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free."

Charles Evans Hughes, American Judge

Privilege, Right

"I just think the most difficult thing to displace is privilege."

Sean Connery, Scottish Actor

Privilege,

"What a privilege it is to be an American!"

Thomas Starr King, American Clergyman

Privilege,

"I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was unable to see the subject clearly because I came from white, middle-class privilege."

Betty Buckley, American Actress

Privilege, Racism

"Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions."

Benjamin Cardozo, American Judge

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"Among the privileges of being a superpower, the right and the ability to make a local quarrel into a global one ranks very high."

Christopher Hitchens, American Author

Privilege, Conflict, Global, Politics, Authority

"Yousef had been lighthearted during his questions, but there was something very serious and sad under his smile, and Alan knew what it was. It was the knowledge that there would be no fighting, and there would be no struggle, no stand taken, and that the two of them, because they were not lacking materially, because despite injustices in their countries they were the recipients of preposterous bounty, would likely do nothing. They were content, they had won. The fighting would be done by others, elsewhere."

Dave Eggers, American Writer

Privilege, Reflection, Responsibility, Conflict

"Sometimes I get a little tired of it. But you know, what a privilege, to get tired of working with Ingmar Bergman."

Liv Ullmann, Norwegian Actress

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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, the evenings spent by yourself, pining to be somewhere else. Those are the moments of true value. You feel half proud of them and half ashamed and you hold them to your heart."

Travel

"Venture to a remote corner of a faraway land and, from the moment you get there, every person and every thing becomes an obstacle, designed to entrap you, to stop you proceeding on your way."

Adventure

"As a travel writer I've specialized in gritty, fearful destinations, the kind of places that make a reader's hair stick on end."

Adventure

"The very fact that a Frenchman was prepared, after tow minutes of conversation, to be so friendly towards anyone, especially one who had come from England, made me restless."

Culture

"A journey, I reflected, is of no merit unless it has tested you."

Journey

"To Succeed, you must reach for the stars, and let your imagination find its own path."

Aspiration

"The pursuit of illusion is not about studying for prizes, or for study's sake. There's no right or wrong, no pass or fail."

Exploration

"I was no longer troubled when he pulled out a machete in a crowded bar, tried to pick up schoolgirls, or threatened to scalp us, then rip off our heads and scoop out our brains."

Violence

"My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind."

Tradition

"In moments of great uncertainty on my travels, I have always felt that something is protecting me, that I will come to no harm."

Travel