Quote by John Berger
Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The cent

Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon. – John Berger

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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man. – John Berger

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Language
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Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present. – John Berger

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You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure. – Margaret Thatcher

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The idea is to have global standards. There is so much travel that if you just had a regional standard, it would probably ultimately have to be changed. – Gijs de Vries

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Travel

To get away from ones working environment is, in a sense, to get away from ones self and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change. – Charles Horton Cooley

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Travel

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

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Another cause of your sickness, and the most important: you have forgotten what you are. – Boethius (Anicius Manlius Severinus)

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A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men. – Patrick Kavanagh

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My business is to prevent the future. – Ray Bradbury

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My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics. – Jack Kemp

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