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“The overdressed traveler betrays more interest in being seen than in seeing, while the true traveler knows that the novel world about her serves as the most appropriate accessory.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“What a gift to see your country as your town.”
― Rick Mercer, The Road Years

“Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto.
I am human: nothing human is alien to me.”
― Terence

“There are districts in which the position of the rural population is that of a man standing permanently up to the neck in water, so that even a ripple is sufficient to drown him.”
― James C. Scott, The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia