It's always encouraging to find a line from a favorite writer being borne out by Science. (SCIENCE!) For instance, a recent social science study was inspired in part by a Mark Twain quote, from The Innocents Abroad: "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime."
Checking into a hotel in Lund, Sweden, the desk clerk was blond (of course) and had a Texas twang. Turned out she'd been an au pair for a couple years.
Frequent flyer points are going to be worth less than ameros (but more than fiat money*) as soon as American Airlines is debased to the level of <strike>America West</strike> US Airways. ______ *Lamborghini money, OTOH, is quite valuable, because Lambo belongs to the Germans.
I&#039;m currently living abroad (France) and can confirm that it does shake up perceptions about my fellow Earthicans a bit. Of course, the French will tell ya that their way is the best, whatever they might be doing, so in that regard, they are awfully like Americans.
Mark Twain: <i> ...a God who could make good children as easily a bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave is angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice, and invented hell--mouths mercy, and invented hell--mouths Golden Rules and foregiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people, and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man&#039;s acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites his poor abused slave to worship him!</i>
&quot;But does travel actually make you a more open-minded person?&quot; This is probably true and I hold as evidence the fact that Ted Cruz&rsquo;s head has never left his ass.
Checking into a hotel in Lund, Sweden, the desk clerk was blond (of course) and had a Texas twang. Turned out she&#039;d been an au pair for a couple years.
And on this side of the pond, it&#039;s Parisians in particular. There&#039;s more similar than different about these two nationalities.
Snowbilly, on the other hand, didn&#039;t have a passport when Panamanian strongman Juan McCain anointed her.
Frequent flyer points are going to be worth less than ameros (but more than fiat money*) as soon as American Airlines is debased to the level of <strike>America West</strike> US Airways. ______ *Lamborghini money, OTOH, is quite valuable, because Lambo belongs to the Germans.
I&#039;m currently living abroad (France) and can confirm that it does shake up perceptions about my fellow Earthicans a bit. Of course, the French will tell ya that their way is the best, whatever they might be doing, so in that regard, they are awfully like Americans.
If you can&#039;t trust that mustache, you can&#039;t trust anything.
Sam Clemens. Now <i>there</i> was a natural blonde!
SO&#039;s mother is very adamant that we not ever visit Chicago.
I never bothered to listen to the why part.
Mark Twain: <i> ...a God who could make good children as easily a bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave is angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice, and invented hell--mouths mercy, and invented hell--mouths Golden Rules and foregiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people, and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man&#039;s acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites his poor abused slave to worship him!</i>
&quot;But does travel actually make you a more open-minded person?&quot; This is probably true and I hold as evidence the fact that Ted Cruz&rsquo;s head has never left his ass.