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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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"Every once in a while God allows you to stub your toe as a kind reminder to be grateful for the miraculous body attached to it."

"Anything great will only be appreciated if I am given the opportunity to feel the absence of it, or experience the reversal of it. It is only then that I can even begin to understand its majesty and cherish it in the manner I should have all along."

"If you want to know the value of a day, ask someone who could not find food to eat or water to drink for a whole day when he is hungry."

"Water on earth came from space. Everything which is there was once upon a time not there and everything which is there shall return again to wherever they come from! When you see a beautiful ocean, or beautiful anything, remember this and appreciate them well!"

"Many things that don't really mean so much of anything, are wonderful."

"Fantasizing about the future is not wrong until and unless you are not missing the beauty of the present!"

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

"I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases....."

"Always celebrate people for who they are."

"You cannot truly enjoy a flower until you can see her inner beauty and feel her purpose of life."
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"The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search."

"A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician."

"We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it."

"In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions."

"Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there."
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