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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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"Don't be too stereotyped, be ready to explore new opportunities."
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"In that case, on behalf of Earthlife, I urge that, with full knowledge of our limitations, we vastly increase our knowledge of the Solar System and then begin to settle other worlds."
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"I like curiosity. It's a mind game, not a necessity."
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"Each day I live in a glass room unless I break it with the thrusting of my senses and pass through the splintered walls to the great landscape."
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"I've walked a lot in the mountains in Iceland. And as you come to a new valley, as you come to a new landscape, you have a certain view. If you stand still, the landscape doesn't necessarily tell you how big it is. It doesn't really tell you what you're looking at. The moment you start to move the mountain starts to move."
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"We've gotta become the Martians. I'm a Martian - I tell you to become Martians. And we've gotta go to Mars and civilize Mars and build a whole civilization on Mars and then move out, 300 years from now into the universe. And when we do that, we have a chance of living forever."
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"We were just looking at maps..."
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"Muscat is like a mind-altering drug. A stroll in its streets is like getting drunk for the first time."
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"Adventure, opportunity and reward extend beyond our field of vision, and are made known to us only when we test our wings."
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"When enter the whole new world, men will deal with new science.To embrace a new science, men need to get used to new wisdom."
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"Settling into a new country is like getting used to a new pair of shoes. At first they pinch a little, but you like the way they look, so you carry on. The longer you have them, the more comfortable they become. Until one day without realizing it you reach a glorious plateau. Wearing those shoes is like wearing no shoes at all. The more scuffed they get, the more you love them and the more you can't imagine life without them."
Adaptation
"The situation was different in the jungle. Every inch of ground had to be earned, and was done so through much exertion with the blade."
Survival
"There's nothing quite like a good quest for getting your blood pumping."
Adventure
"Move to a new country and you quickly see that visiting a place as a tourist, and actually moving there for good, are two very different things."
Culture
"Any man who has ever led an army, an expedition, or a group of Boy Scouts has sadism in his bones."
Power
"Venture to a remote corner of a faraway land and, from the moment you get there, every person and every thing becomes an obstacle, designed to entrap you, to stop you proceeding on your way."
Adventure
"In moments of great uncertainty on my travels, I have always felt that something is protecting me, that I will come to no harm."
Travel
"My father never told us how the stories worked. He didn't reveal the layers, the nuggets of information, the fragments of truth and fantasy. He didn't need to -- because, given the right conditions, the stories activated, sowing themselves."
Storytelling
"My father looked on in disbelief, overwhelmed that his son had been taught to eat glass and relish it."
Survival
"It is almost impossible to overemphasize the importance with which ancestry is held in the Middle East and North Africa."
Culture
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