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“In every town we lived in, there was one great big door ready to open for anyone — the library. And I never met a library I didn’t like.”
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“I don't like either the word [hike] or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains - not 'hike!' Do you know the origin of that word saunter? It's a beautiful word. Away back in the middle ages people used to go on pilgrimages to the Holy Land, and when people in the villages through which they passed asked where they were going they would reply, 'A la sainte terre', 'To the Holy Land.' And so they became known as sainte-terre-ers or saunterers. Now these mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not 'hike' through them.”
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“Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.”
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“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go with others.”
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