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John Grierson

"We have built our State on the freedom of personal adventure."

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Amber Hurdle

"Always in the big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there will be, along with the feelings of curiosity and excitement, a little nagging of dread. It is the ancient fear of the Unknown, and it is your first bond with the wilderness you are going into."

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Amber Hurdle

"Travel is never a matter of money but of courage."

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Amber Hurdle

"Adventure without risk is Disneyland."

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"Purpose! Purposes are for animals with a hell of a lot more dignity than the human race! Just hop on that strange torpedo and ride it to wherever it's going."

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"An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered."

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Amber Hurdle

"Sail Forth- Steer for the deep waters only. Reckless O soul, exploring. I with thee and thou with me. For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared go. And we will risk the ship, ourselves, and all."

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Amber Hurdle

"Very well, young man, very well," Treville went on, "I know those airs. I came to Paris with four ecus in my pocket, and I'd have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre."

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Amber Hurdle

"Dare to explore the beautiful places of the world."

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Amber Hurdle

"They said it was only a ground shark, but I was not wholly reassured. It is as bad to be eaten by a ground shark as by any other."

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"An egg is always an adventure, it may be different each time."

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John Grierson
"My personal view is that such total planning by the state is an absolute good and not simply a relative good... I do not myself think of the attitude I take as deriving from Marx - though this undoubtedly will be suggested - but from Fichte and Hegel."
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"When quick results are imperative, the manipulation of the masses through symbols may be the only quick way of having a critical thing done."
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"Such manifestations I account as representing the creative leadership of the new forces of thought and appreciation which attend changes in technological pattern and therefore of the pattern of human relationships in society."
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"Political conflicts distort and disturb a people's sense of distinction between matters of importance and matters of urgency. What is vital is disguised by what is merely a matter of well being."
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"The cultivation of sensibility on purely personal lines may, in fact, be the very worst training for a world where only the corporate and the cooperative will matter."
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"My view... would be that we are entering upon a new and interim society which is neither capitalist nor socialist, but in which we can achieve central planning without loss of individual initiative, by the mere process of absorbing initiative in the function of planning."
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"Beware the ends of the earth and the exotic: the drama is on your doorstep wherever the slums; are, wherever there is malnutrition, wherever there is exploitation and cruelty."
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"The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart."
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"The life of the village became more and more affected by strikes and lock-outs."
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"And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship."
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