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"The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence."
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"I have nothing to compain about. I am here to enjoy the breathtaking beauty of nature."

"True gratitude ascends to the highest altitudes."

"Until I saw Chardin's painting I never realized how much beauty lay around me in my parents' house in the half-cleared table in the corner of a tablecloth left awry in the knife beside the empty oyster shell."

"It is unfortunate that many people today cannot sense the worth in people."

"I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars."

"Everything that I hold will eventually be gone. Subsequently, the quality of my life will depend on whether I choose to appreciate those things 'now' or wait until 'then."

"Embrace the sweetness of life like a gift honeycomb from the hive."

"When we don't see the value of a thing, we don't put the protective edge."

"To have great poets, there must be great audiences."
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"When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable."

"You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace."

"The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence."

"The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of idea."

"The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt."

"Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male."

"The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors."
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