"Most men who have really lived have had, in some share, their great adventure. This railway is mine."
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"I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them."
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"We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey."
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"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train."
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"The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure."
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"No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow."
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"Despite the fact that computer speeds are measured in nanoseconds and picoseconds - one billionth and one trillionth of a second, respectively - the smallest interval of time known to man is that which occurs in Manhattan between the traffic signal turning green and the taxi driver behind you blowing his horn."
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"Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out."
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"Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it."
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"You can't just be you. You have to double yourself. You have to read books on subjects you know nothing about. You have to travel to places you never thought of traveling. You have to meet every kind of person and endlessly stretch what you know."
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"My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful, difficult, but led me to greater happiness and opportunities."
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"Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving."
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"I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it."
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"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness."
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"If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal."
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"Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life."
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"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body."
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"Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, but wreathed in lists of things he has seen and sucked dry. Seen and sucked dry, you know: Venus de Milo, the Rhine or the Coliseum: swallowed like so many clams, and left the shells."
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"Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm."
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"A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it."
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