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"Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole."

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Marlene Dietrich Actress, Singer
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"In language gender is particularly confusing. Why, please, should a table be male in German, female in French, and castrated in English?"

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Ernest Hemingway Novelist
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"If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast."

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Willie Nelson Musician, Actor
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"On the road again, goin' places that I've never been. Seein' things that I may never see again, and I can't wait to get on the road again."

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Jack Kerouac Novelist, Poet
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"He had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars."

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Carson McCullers Novelist
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"We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known."

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Anthony Bourdain Chef, Author, Television Personality
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"Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind."

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Jack Kerouac Novelist, Poet
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"What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-by. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies."

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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
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"I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now."

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