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Being invisible – the usual condition of the older traveller – is much more useful than being obvious. You see more, you are not interrupted, you are ignored.
“I have discovered with advancing years that few things are entirely black or white, but more often different shades of grey.”
― A Prisoner of Birth
― A Prisoner of Birth
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
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“We all make mistakes but one has to move on.”
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“[W]hat makes patriotic and religious fanatics such dangerous opponents is not the deaths of the fanatics themselves, but their willingness to accept the deaths of a fraction of their number in order to annihilate or crush their infidel enemy.”
― Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
― Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
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