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"I spent a lot of time behind the Iron Curtain, and their cars were abysmal."
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"Beautiful places are almost alive! When you visit them, you can feel their breaths!"

"Without travels, our existence, our memories, our literature, our dreams, our everything would be very poor, very boring, very limited!"

"The most beautiful thing about the most beautiful roads is that the destination is forgotten and the journey becomes the destination itself!"

"I am going to the USA to catch sight of a wild porcupine and to give some lectures."

"It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling."

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

"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."

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

"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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"Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy."

"I come from Toledo, Ohio, a town that has been hurt badly by the shift of the automobile business towards Japan. And yet I remember how the car workers lived in the neighborhood that I grew up in. My father was a car salesman, and I remember how we lived. I remember how modestly we lived."

"I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a 'learning experience.' It makes me feel less stupid."

"The problem, when comparing contemporary television to television in 1974, is that TV has become not just bad but sad."

"Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy."

"I grew up going to public school, and they were huge public schools. I went to a school that had 3,200 kids, and I had grade school classes with 40-some kids. Discipline was rigid. Most of the learning was rote. It worked."
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