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" I do have to travel a lot for speaking engagements. "
P. J. O'Rourke
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" I travel around the world, experiencing every language, every religion... some places where there's just no reason to smile, because their lives are so difficult. "
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" No matter what I do, it's all about the workouts. When I travel, I make sure I get my workout in first. When I'm in camp for a fight, I don't travel at all, and I train three times a day. The secret is to just keep working. "
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" Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue. "
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" The purpose of sports - even foreign sports - is not to bore people. "
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" The idea of traveling in Africa for me is based on going by road or train or bus or whatever and crossing borders. You can't travel easily or at all through some countries. "
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" Will Generation X and the Millennials do a better job running the world than the boomers have? Let's hope so. "
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" Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective. "
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" Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact. "
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" My working hypothesis is that stupidity in popular culture is a constant. Popular culture cannot get more stupid. "
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" Adam Smith is misread as being amoral precisely because people don't read his first book, because they don't read 'The Theory of Moral Sentiments.' "
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" Every year, millions of people from Iran and Iraq travel to each other's countries, and we also have marriages between Iraqis and Iranians. Many Iranians were born in Iraq, and many Iraqis were born in Iran. This is a kind of special, cordial amicable ties. "
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" Zero-sum thinking is an obsession of mine, but mostly in economics. "
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" On inspection, Gaudi's architecture isn't whimsical at all. "
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" I travel very light. I never want to check a bag. My only standards are a few sets of clothes, my white sneakers, my blue backpack, and my laptop. I don't have any special things otherwise. "
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" We will win an election when all the seats in the House and Senate and the chair behind the desk in the Oval Office and the whole bench of the Supreme Court are filled with people who wish they weren't there. "
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" The library, with its Daedalian labyrinth, mysterious hush, and faintly ominous aroma of knowledge, has been replaced by the computer's cheap glow, pesky chirp, and data spillage. "
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" President Obama has contempt for real money. "
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" When I was drafted to Smackdown, I was like, 'Hell yes, I'm going to captain this ship.' Then I was like, 'Oh, wait, you're losing your best friend and travel partner and the person you enjoy having matches with the absolute most.' That's Charlotte. We travel together, and she is my best friend. "
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" Every hotel room, every apartment we rent, I am sage-ing. And I have crystals that I travel with. It just makes me feel better. "
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" I've said before, the number one thing that we have to work on is protecting the gay community from sharia law. Now, in the United States, it's probably not a big issue right now, but my brother-in-law is gay, and his partner and I would like them to be able to travel any place in the world without them risking harm. "
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" Call a man 'ignorant,' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up. "
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" In Henry Adams, I discovered not only the prototype of the modern thinker but also someone who is more interesting: a viper-toothed, puling, supercilious crank, thwarted in ambition, aging gracelessly, mad at the cosmos, and ashamed of his own jejune ideals. He is nevertheless very dear to me. "
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