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• The mobile market is exploding and it makes perfect sense for a media company like ours to create a real content destination for the billions of cell-phone users around the world.

  Peter Chernin

  Real, Phones, Cells

  " News Corp heeds call for mobile content" by Dominic Timms, www.theguardian.com. February 27, 2006.

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• The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before.

  Arthur Erickson

  Tourism, Tourists, Demand

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• In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an unknown destination. The chief difference is that youth waits for the morning limited and age waits for the night train

  Bruce Catton

  Morning, Night, Differences

  Bruce Catton (1987). “Waiting for the Morning Train: An American Boyhood”, p.39, Wayne State University Press

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• I think Juan stopped short - he got halfway to the destination and got off the train. He is certainly an excellent writer and a good person, but I'm not a nationalist.

  Clarence Thomas

  Thinking, Hair, Juan

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• I wanted to go back to Sun. Unfortunately, most of the gear is gone from Sun. The way I take it now, it's almost like a tourist destination. So, it would have been pretty difficult to have brought all the gear into Sun to make it like it was in the '50's.

  Brian Setzer

  Tourism, Tourists, Gone

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• No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Death, Stanford University

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Gully Foyle is my name And Terra is my nation Deep space is my dwelling place The stars my destination

  Alfred Bester

  Stars, Dwelling Place, Names

  "The Stars My Destination". Book by Alfred Bester, www.theguardian.com. 1956.

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• when one learns a different way of dealing with the situation, one no longer has to have a purpose. One is not on the way to somewhere. Or rather, one is on the way and one is also at the destination at the same time. That is really what meditation is for.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Time, Rose, Meditation

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume One: Born in Tibet; Meditation in Action; Mudra; Selected Writings”, p.338, Shambhala Publications

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• I represent Orlando, Florida, the world's number one vacation destination.

  Ric Keller

  Vacation, Florida, Numbers

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• Final Destination was the closest thing I've done to a teen movie but it certainly had an edge to it.

  Devon Sawa

  Teenager, Finals, Done

  "“Slackers”: Devon Sawa Interview". Hollywood Interview, www.hollywood.com. February 1, 2002.

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• The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.

  Norman Cousins

  Hope, Live Life, Facts

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• Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.

  Alain de Botton

  Lonely, Book, Being Alone

  "The Consolations of Philosophy". Book by Alain de Botton (Chapter IV "Consolation For Inadequacy", p. 148), 2000.

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• I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.

  Jose Saramago

  Travel, Writing, Order

  "A Writer's Progress: An Interview with Nobel Prize-Winning Portuguese Novelist José Saramago". Interview with Anna Klobucka, masshumanities.org. Spring 2002.

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• You don't always need to know your destination when you set out on a journey.

  Carole Wilkinson

  Journey, Needs, Knows

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• We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 5 (1942)

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• roads were made for journeys not destinations

  Confucius

  Journey, Made, Roads And Journeys

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• Loss is like a closed road that forces us to turn around and find another way to our destination. Who knows what we will discover and see along the way.

  Gerald Lawson Sittser

  Inspirational, Life, Loss

  Gerald Lawson Sittser, Jerry L. Sittser (1998). “A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows Through Loss”, p.130, Zondervan

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• If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.

  Samuel Beckett

  Baseball, Goals Dreams, Yankees

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• No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

  Lin Yutang

  Beautiful, Travel, Home

  Lin Yutang (1940). “With Love and Irony”

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• If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.

  James A. Michener

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

  "Good Advice". Book by William Safire and Leonard Safir, 1982.

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• I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

  Mark Twain

  Travel, Hate, Memorable

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.1919, GENERAL PRESS

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• God has spoken to me many times that my job is to love and his job is to heal.

  Heidi Baker

  Love, God, Christian

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• Once you define exactly what your purpose is you won’t even have to try to figure out how to make money. The ideas will flow freely as if someone was whispering in your ear. Everything will come together beautifully.

  Bob Proctor

  Money, Ideas, Trying

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• When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn, and where we end up is really, in fact, where we always intended to be.

  Julia Glass

  Life, Destiny, Yarn

  Julia Glass (2003). “Three Junes”, Vintage

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• I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.

  Al Sharpton

  Mom, Mother, Rags

  "Sharpton answers Bush in speech". www.cnn.com. July 29, 2004.

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