"You have all these people in the city and everything has become centralized. If you live outside the city and you need a birth certificate or some official paper from the government, you have to travel to the city."

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"You have all these people in the city and everything has become centralized. If you live outside the city and you need a birth certificate or some official paper from the government, you have to travel to the city."

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"I think daily that the country's future is being thrown to the wind."

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"That's whatever news topic, whatever political process any country is going through - whenever they are in the news, that's when they exist. If you don't see them they don't exist."

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"In Haiti you had the Duvaliers for 29 years and they were very well supported by the United States."

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"London is a roost for every bird."

Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman

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"I think that somebody with the resources and innovation and the idea is going to come out of nowhere and come up with a successful space travel program."

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"The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel."

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"Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel."

David Attenborough, British Journalist

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"I've been to Nepal, but I'd like to go to Tibet. It must be a wonderful place to go. I don't think there's anything there, but it would be a nice place to visit."

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"I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals."

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"Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist."

W. H. Auden, English Poet

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