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"In India everything has a use and a value."
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"People, imperfect and corruptible are society's building blocks. Political theories evading this reality are a catastrophe in waiting."
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"Living isn't always red bows and birthday balloons."
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"A goodlookin horse is like a goodlookin woman, he said. They're always more trouble than what they're worth. What a man needs is just one that will get the job done."
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"One half of me is a hopeless romantic. The other half is well... just realistic."
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"The barren branches may appear inelegant: They are, to the cook, the means to make his fire."
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"If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life."
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"I'm against solutions that are worse than the problem. Like old women who want their hair dyed the color of shoe polish to hide the gray."
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"Okay, this is the wisdom. First, time spent on reconnaissanse is never wasted. Second, almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon. And finally, there is no problem on Earth that can't be ameliorated by a hot bath and a cup of tea."
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"Never expect wolves to behave like sheep."
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"In India everything has a use and a value."
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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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