"Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas, take your next trip in kilometers."
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"One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things."
"Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own."
"Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man."
"The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality."
"It's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies"
"There is one voyage, the first, the last, the only one."
"There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror."
"They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea."
"Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities."
"I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do."
"Experience, travel - these are an education in themselves."
"If countries were people, England and France would be old men. Italy would be dead. Compared with them, America is in its 20s."
"To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure."
"I've opened up more by traveling outside Jamaica. It helps me to grow as a person to be outside of my element; to be on my own in a strange place meeting people."
"What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence."
"Unusual travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God."
"Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence."
"The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together."
"France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper."