"The fact that people will pay you to talk to people and travel to interesting places and write about what intrigues you, I am just amazed by that."

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"The fact that people will pay you to talk to people and travel to interesting places and write about what intrigues you, I am just amazed by that."

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"Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

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"Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others."

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"As Robin Morgan wrote so wisely, "Hate generalizes, love specifies". Thats what makes going on the road so important. It definitely specifies."

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"For my part I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move."

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"To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive."

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"I'm such a girl for the living room. I really like to stay in my nest and not move. I travel in my mind, and that that's a rigorous state of journeying for me. My body isn't that interested in moving from place to place."

bell hooks, American Critic

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"The biggest kick I get is to communicate with those who are exiled from the game - in hospitals, homes, prisons - those who have seldom seen a game, who can't travel to a game, those who are blind."

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"If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer."

Gertrude Stein, American Author

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Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"As soon as I was old enough to drive, I got a job at a local newspaper. There was someone who influenced me. He wrote a column for The Guardian from this tiny village in India."

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"Just a little help, a small security force, a bit of food, can save lives."

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"You would see people going back to homes that had been burned, putting thatch over their structures again. They still couldn't leave the area without the danger of men being killed or women being raped, but it was a start."

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"Neither Western donor countries like the U.S. nor poor recipients like Cameroon care much about Africans who are poor, rural and female."

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"A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality."

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"There isn't a political price to be paid yet for doing nothing. People need to get upset with President Bush. People need to get upset with their Congressmen."

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"Most of the villagers were hiding in the bush, where they were dying from bad water, malaria and malnutrition."

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