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Michel de Montaigne Philosopher, Writer
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"A man should ever, as much as in him lieth, be ready booted to take his journey, and above all things look he have then nothing to do but with himself."

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Carl Sagan Astronomer, Astrophysicist
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"The vast distances that separate the stars are providential. Beings and worlds are quarantined from one another. The quarantine is lifted only for those with sufficient self-knowledge and judgment to have safely traveled from star to star."

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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
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"All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it."

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Socrates Philosopher
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"Why do you wonder that globetrotting does not help you, seeing that you always take yourself with you? The reason that set you wandering is ever at your heels."

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Leonardo da Vinci Artist, Scientist, Inventor
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"When the sun is covered by clouds, objects are less conspicuous, because there is little difference between the light and shade of the trees and the buildings being illuminated by the brightness of the atmosphere which surrounds the objects in such a way that the shadows are few, and these few fade away so that their outline is lost in haze."

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Mark Twain Writer, Humorist
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"We love old travelers: we love to hear them prate, drivel and lie; we love them for their asinine vanity, their ability to bore, their luxuriant fertility of imagination, their startling, brilliant, overwhelming mendacity."

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John Muir Naturalist, Writer
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"Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter."

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Christopher Hitchens Author, Critic, Journalist
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"I want to urge you very strongly to travel as much as you can, and to evolve yourself as an internationalist. It's as important a part of your education as a radical as the reading of any book."

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Bob Dylan Singer-songwriter
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"The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots."

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