Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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It is often said that Americans have no sense of history. Ask a college student who Jimmy Carter was and they will likely reply that he was a general in the Civil War, which occurred in 1492, when Americans dumped tea into the Gulf of Tonkin, sparking the First World War, which ended with the invasion of Grenada and the development of the cotton press.

J. Maarten Troost's Popular Quotes

It was as if the sensory overload that is American life had somehow led to sensory deprivation, a gilded weariness, where everything is permitted and…

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Like many air travelers, I am aware that airplanes fly aided by capricious fairies and invisible strings.

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No one who claims this to be a small world has ever flown across the Pacific.

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I had grown accustomed to life being interesting and adventure ridden and, rather childishly, I refused to believe that this must necessarily come to…

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Bwenawa brought my attention to two wooden planks raised about four feet above the ground. On the ledges were lagoon fish sliced open and lying in th…

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Personally I regard idling as a virtue, but civilized society holds otherwise.

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I was simply restless, quite likely because of a dissatisfaction with the recent trajectory of my life, and if there is a better, more compelling rea…

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Like many highly educated people, I didn't have much in the way of actual skills.

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Paradise was always over there, a day’s sail away. But it’s a funny thing, escapism. You can go far and wide and you can keep moving on and on throug…

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