The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes “sightseeing.”
—Daniel Boorstin, 1961
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The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.
—Paul Johnson, 1989Style is the image of character.
—Edward Gibbon, c. 1789Will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.
—Isadora Duncan, c. 1902Anything one is remembering is a repetition, but existing as a human being that is being, listening, and hearing is never repetition.
—Gertrude Stein, 1935There is a kind of revolution of so general a character that it changes the mental tastes as well as the fortunes of the world.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1665Human happiness never remains long in the same place.
—Herodotus, c. 430 BCTime’s violence rends the soul; by the rent eternity enters.
—Simone Weil, 1947I don’t believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.
—Coretta Scott King, 1994Of my friends, I am the only one I have left.
—Terence, 161 BCNo families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1860In tampering with the earth, we tamper with a mystery.
—Jonathan Schell, 2000Revolutions never go backward.
—Thomas Skidmore, 1829