Thanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.
—Charles Kuralt, c. 1980
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Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.
—William Shakespeare, 1603The dead are often just as living to us as the living are, only we cannot get them to believe it. They can come to us, but till we die we cannot go to them. To be dead is to be unable to understand that one is alive.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1888The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
—Maya Angelou, 1986The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
—Steve Biko, 1971Who draws his sword against his prince must throw away the scabbard.
—James Howell, 1659’Tis the destroyer, or the devil, that scatters plagues about the world.
—Cotton Mather, 1693O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1599The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes “sightseeing.”
—Daniel Boorstin, 1961The envious die not once, but as often as the envied win applause.
—Baltasar Gracián, 1647Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
—Arthur C. Clarke, 1973A maid that laughs is half taken.
—John Ray, 1670More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1880