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"Time spent in India has a extraordinary effect on one. It acts as a barrier that makes the rest of the world seem unreal."
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"A person or nation begins to live and act according to the word of God, as a result of change in the value system and therefore life around them changes."

"Your world of poverty can be recreated to that of affluence simply by speaking the Prince's language."

"To escape death, she'd become death."

"I just had to plod along without having any teaching, which was a pity."

"Witnessing is the alchemy of enlightenment. It can transform mud into gold."

"If you are renewed by grace, and were to meet your old self, I am sure you would be very anxious to get out of his company."

"A caterpillar knows it's a butterfly, even if the whole world tries to convince it that it's just a worm."

"If you can endure anything, you can become anything."

"The time has come for every Christian to change his position, to change the dimensions of his vision."
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"Settling into a new country is like getting used to a new pair of shoes. At first they pinch a little, but you like the way they look, so you carry on. The longer you have them, the more comfortable they become. Until one day without realizing it you reach a glorious plateau. Wearing those shoes is like wearing no shoes at all. The more scuffed they get, the more you love them and the more you can't imagine life without them."


"There's nothing quite like a good quest for getting your blood pumping."


"Move to a new country and you quickly see that visiting a place as a tourist, and actually moving there for good, are two very different things."


"Any man who has ever led an army, an expedition, or a group of Boy Scouts has sadism in his bones."


"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."


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


"My father never told us how the stories worked. He didn't reveal the layers, the nuggets of information, the fragments of truth and fantasy. He didn't need to -- because, given the right conditions, the stories activated, sowing themselves."


"My father looked on in disbelief, overwhelmed that his son had been taught to eat glass and relish it."
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