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Quote by Elizabeth Drew
Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation. – Elizabeth Drew

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The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and mangled mind leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict. – Elizabeth Drew

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Prison
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The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it. – Elizabeth Drew

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Literary
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I really enjoy what I do, and who Im with and where I am. Having said that, Im not really a person of habit, because what I do in my job is travel around the world and play concerts to people, and occasionally do very weird things. – Robert Smith

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Travel

Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name. – Alice Meynell

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Travel

I travel a lot. If you look at my suitcase, everything is extremely well-packed and well-folded people who travel with me are impressed at how organized I am. Some would refer to me as a maniac for this. – Joel Robuchon

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Travel

I just travel the world with my backpack and my cameras and a bunch of Clif bars. – Henry Rollins

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Travel

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After your first day of cycling, one dream is inevitable. A memory of motion lingers in the muscles of your legs, and round and round they seem to go. You ride through Dreamland on wonderful dream bicycles that change and grow. – H.G. Wells, The Wheels of Chance

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In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning. – Jean Baudrillard

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Tarry a moment to watch the chaos of a playground, crayola-colored shirts of running children, all trying out their wings. – Dr.SunWolf, 2012 tweet, professorsunwolf.com

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Well, first of all, we did lots of studies where we show practical intelligence doesnt correlate with G. We have probably two dozen studies that practical intelligence better predicts job success than IQ. – Robert Sternberg

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