"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."
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"Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education in the elder, a part of experience.“
-Francis Bacon
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"There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health."
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"There's no need to travel further. The Los Angeles area is big enough for us."
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"Soul travel can be a general expansion of awareness and knowingness or conscious experience of the heavenly worlds."
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"I travel the world, and I'm happy to say that America is still the great melting pot - maybe a chunky stew rather than a melting pot at this point, but you know what I mean."
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"I think space will be conquered through the mind rather than the clumsy medium of space travel."
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-Yvon Chouinard
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