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Maya Angelou Poet, Memoirist
Travel

"Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends."

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George Bernard Shaw Playwright, Critic
Travel

"Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. . . . It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability."

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E. M. Forster Novelist, Essayist
Travel

"Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return."

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James D. Watson Molecular Biologist, Geneticist
Travel

"Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
Travel

"I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from."

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Edward Abbey Author, Environmentalist
Travel

"There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California."

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