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This holds true both for routine travel -- the "have-to" trips of every day -- and for more extraordinary "want-to" travel, whether that involves a quick getaway or a dream vacation.
Tony Hiss: Deep Travel Tony Hiss 2010
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For some people, who can see no other solution, enduring the routine and boredom of daily "have-to" travel has been made more tolerable by looking forward to long-planned "want-to" trips -- almost as if pain accumulated now can at some point be exchanged for pleasure.
Tony Hiss: Deep Travel Tony Hiss 2010
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Aggregate these numbers and the "have-to" part of travel already outweighs the "want-to" part, since 87 minutes a day amounts to more than two-and-a-half weeks out of each year, already overshadowing the standard two-week vacation.
Tony Hiss: Deep Travel Tony Hiss 2010
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"You're seeing a lot more of the 'have-to' trade at the end of the day rather than the 'want to,' " said J.P. Morgan's Mr. Schiff.
Stocks Swing Up in Wild Week Tom Lauricella 2011
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This holds true both for routine travel -- the "have-to" trips of every day -- and for more extraordinary "want-to" travel, whether that involves a quick getaway or a dream vacation.
Tony Hiss: Deep Travel Tony Hiss 2010
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This is just one of the many intractable trade-offs that modern humans have-to 'work around'.
Envy, Happiness, and Social Policy, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Aggregate these numbers and the "have-to" part of travel already outweighs the "want-to" part, since 87 minutes a day amounts to more than two-and-a-half weeks out of each year, already overshadowing the standard two-week vacation.
Tony Hiss: Deep Travel Tony Hiss 2010
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For some people, who can see no other solution, enduring the routine and boredom of daily "have-to" travel has been made more tolerable by looking forward to long-planned "want-to" trips -- almost as if pain accumulated now can at some point be exchanged for pleasure.
Tony Hiss: Deep Travel Tony Hiss 2010
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Such wealth allows multiple family members to exist across several generations without any thought of survival (i.e., no have-to and lots of choice).
Sigi Hale, Ph.D.: The Conundrum of Success and True Nobility Ph.D. Sigi Hale 2010
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But the negative reviews and stilted box office convinced me that it wasn't a "have-to."
Theater Hopper - May 12: Fanboy Grudge « FirstShowing.net 2008
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