When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.
– Clifton Fadiman
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- When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before. – Clifton Fadiman
- One’s first book, kiss, home run is always the best. – Clifton Fadiman
- The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land. – G.K. Chesterton
- For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. – Clifton Fadiman
- For most men, life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed. – Clifton Fadiman
- A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke and that the joke is oneself. – Clifton Paul Fadiman
- Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported? – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
- Our country. In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country right or wrong! – Stephen Decatur
- “Our critics make us strong! Our fears make us bold! Our haters make us wise! Our foes make us active! Our obstacles make us passionate! Our losses make us wealthy! Our disappointments make us appointed! Our unseen treasures give us a known peace! Whatever is designed against us will work for us!” – Israelmore Ayivor
- “Our critics make us strong! Our fears make us bold! Our haters make us wise! Our foes make us active! Our obstacles make us passionate! Our losses make us wealthy! Our disappointments make us appointed! Our unseen treasures give us a known peace! Whatever is designed against us will work for us!” – Israelmore Ayivor