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Gijs de Vries

"The idea is to have global standards. There is so much travel that if you just had a regional standard, it would probably ultimately have to be changed."

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"The idea is to have global standards. There is so much travel that if you just had a regional standard, it would probably ultimately have to be changed."

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"Everywhere you travel to, be fully there."

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"I travel to Jakarta, I see what an important country it is. I've been working with them for a year."

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"When travelling, concentrate on the path! Don't sleep! Don't read! Just live the journey in full by observing the path instead of wandering in your own world!"

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"Every traveler has their unique observation of the place they have been."

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"The journey was a worthwhile. We gain new insight into cultural diversity."

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"Travel teaches as much as a teacher."

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"Traveling-to-a-place energy and living-in-a-place energy are two fundamentally different energies."

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"A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority."

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"Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection."

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"Indiscriminate attacks on civilians ought, under all circumstances, to be illegal in war as in peacetime."
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"Police forces collect information to be used in a public court to get people convicted. Security services gather information that does not necessarily lead to people being prosecuted and in many cases needs to remain confidential."
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"I have never come across a technology that doesn't change. This is inevitable. You have to adapt your systems as technology develops."
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"You can't get closer to the heart of national sovereignty than national security and intelligence services."
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"If information ends up in the wrong hands, the lives of people very often are immediately at risk."
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"Look at Iraq; look at Afghanistan, where at great personal physical risk people have gone to the polls and have rejected the appeal from Bin Laden and his allies to stay at home."
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"I remain optimistic. What we've seen in Europe and the rest of the world is that freedom has a much stronger attraction than radical fundamentalism."
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"Ultimately, freedom and democracy are stronger than fear and tyranny."
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