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"There are two ways to find a lost city. The first is to rely on luck alone, the second is to control all the information."
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"Explore the deep ocean."
"Life is a daring adventure. I am enjoying every bit of the joyful journey."
"Life is a worthwhile adventure."
"Explore and experiment your lifetime on earth."
"But ironically the believers have done worse in exploring the earth than sons of men who are not even believers have done."
"Dream to reach the stars, awaken to reach the edge of the universe."
"Go where imagination takes you-- not where others have gone before."
"The lack of information is what makes one go to the desert in search of some seafood."
"Part of what makes roads, trails and paths so unique as built structures is that they cannot be perceived as a whole all at once by a sedentary onlooker. They unfold in time as one travels along them, just as a story does as one listens or reads, and a hairpin turn is like a plot twist, a steep ascent a building of suspense to the view at the summit, a fork in the road an introduction of a new storyline, arrival the end of the story. Just as writing allows one to read the words of someone who is absent, so roads make it possible to trace the route of the absent. Roads are a record of those who have gone before and to follow them is to follow people who are no longer there."
"Pessimists never go on a voyage of discovery, equally so they never leave the shoreline in search of new horizons."
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"As the head of an expedition, you can't pussyfoot around being polite to everyone. You have to show your teeth once in a while; a little growling goes a long way."
"My journey to the land of the Shuar tribe had taught me the importance of practical gifts."
"Ours was not going to be a clone of the usual expeditions, oozing with sleekness. It was clear from the start that oddity was our advantage."
"If hot food is they key to maintaining an expedition's stamina, then low grade gut-rot alcohol is the key to sustaining its sense of pleasure."
"Through a strange kind of geographic arrogance, Europeans like to think that the world was a silent, dark, unknown place until they trooped out and discovered it."
"Enlightenment, and the death which comes before it, is the primary business of Varanasi."
"Back at the guest house I tried to acclimatise. A travel-worn adventurer had once told me that leaning with one's head dangling over the end of a bed was the best way to achieve this. It was while I was in this position, the blood rushing to my temples, that the door swung open."
"As far as Samson was concerned I was just another foreigner in pursuit of a lunatic quest."
"Foras Road has a sordid reputation. Old crones sat in doorways, while their daughters were pushed out to earn money. It is intriguing that a society which is very covert with sexuality should be so straightforward about prostitution."
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