Quote by Paul Theroux
The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnsons on the main drag into

The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnsons on the main drag into maturity. – Paul Theroux

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Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art. – Paul Theroux

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Death
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Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldnt say that Im a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels – and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places. – Paul Theroux

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Travel
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The moment that changed me for ever was the moment my first child was born. I was happy, filled with hope, and thought, Now I understand the whole point of work, of life, of love. – Paul Theroux

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Hope
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The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between. – Mother Teresa

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Peace

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Peace

I want to say a simple thing, that the dividing line exists not between Jordan and Israel, but between the proponents of peace and the opponents of peace. – King Hussein I

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Peace

I say that to my colleagues, by the way, in the internal Cabinet meetings, I say, Look, I want to be very clear about what I want. I just – I dont want a peace process, I want a peace result. – Benjamin Netanyahu

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Peace

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Genius Borrows nobly. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. – Eleanor Roosevelt

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Todays interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization. – Naguib Mahfouz

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