conquered the world with their republican principles, they changed their principles to fit an empire, and the new principles destroyed it. There is the moral answer: license, luxury, and sloth,
“The space monkey continues, "Our culture has made us all the same. No one is truly white or black or rich, anymore. We all want the same. Individually, we are nothing.”
― Fight Club
― Fight Club
“What you have to consider,” he says, "is the possibility that God doesn’t like you. Could be, God hates us. This is not the worst thing that can happen.”
― Fight Club
― Fight Club
“If travel expands our experience and broadens our minds, the anticipation of travel helpfully narrows our reading list.”
― The Joys of Travel: And Stories That Illuminate Them
― The Joys of Travel: And Stories That Illuminate Them
“Sometimes, when you go on foot there, when you walk in the woods near the old pagan temples, you feel something very strong. It is like the energy you feel in a church, or the energy you feel when a boy and a girl are in love and touch hands for the first time.”
― Between East and West: Across the Borderlands of Europe
― Between East and West: Across the Borderlands of Europe
“No family ever put an airport under its Christmas tree.”
― The Joys of Travel: And Stories That Illuminate Them
― The Joys of Travel: And Stories That Illuminate Them
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