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“Eight and a half miles can be covered in minutes in a car on an expressway, but what does a man see? What he gains in time he loses in benefit to his body and mInd.”
― Richard Proenneke, One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey

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“Travel is a fantastic self-development tool, because it extricates you from the values of your culture and shows you that another society can live with entirely different values and still function and not hate themselves. This exposure to different cultural values and metrics then forces you to reexamine what seems obvious in your own life and to consider that perhaps it’s not necessarily the best way to live.”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

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“Forbes approvingly quoted Mitchell’s theory of how to live well. “A man can get a temporary thrill from making money but if all he has to show for his life’s work is a financial balance he cannot derive a great deal of satisfaction. A man must be able to say ‘My work has been of such a character that I have benefited my fellowmen.’ Unless he can do that”
― Andrew Ross Sorkin, 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in History – and How It Shattered a Nation

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