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“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
― Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It

“If you are willing to look at another person’s behavior toward you as a reflection of the state of their relationship with themselves rather than a statement about your value as a person, then you will, over a period of time cease to react at all.”
― Yogi Bhajan

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“What are the two most popular then?’ asked Ahren, nervously trying to distract himself. ‘Beer and women,’ responded Trogadon, grinning widely until Jelninolan glared at him sternly, whereupon he became strangely fascinated by the tips of his boots.”
― Torsten Weitze, The Isles of the Cutlass Sea