"The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark."
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"I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind them."
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"The prudent capitalist will never adventure his capital . . . if there exists a state of uncertainty as to whether the Government will repeal tomorrow what it has enacted today."
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"Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature."
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"Drop it like it's hot."
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"The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness."
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"Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return."
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"Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty."
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"Most men who have really lived have had, in some share, their great adventure. This railway is mine."
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"The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. Fear of the unknown is our greatest fear. Many of us would enter a tiger's lair before we would enter a dark cave. While caution is a useful instinct, we lose many opportunities and much of the adventure of life if we fail to support the curious explorer within us."
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"The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity."
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"I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it."
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"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness."
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"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body."
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"But what manner of use would it be ploughing through that darkness?' asked Drinian. Use?' replied Reepicheep. 'Use, Captain?' If you mean by filling our bellies or our purses, I confess it will be no use at all. So far as I know we did not set sail to look for things useful but to seek honour and adventures. And here is as great an adventure as I have ever heard of, and here, if we turn back, no little impeachment of all our honours."
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"Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting."
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"A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it."
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"War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus."
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"The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself "Oh now I've got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home. And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure."
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"Your life is your story, and the adventure ahead of you is the journey to fulfill your own purpose and potential."
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