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"Any man who has ever led an army, an expedition, or a group of Boy Scouts has sadism in his bones."
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"The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason."
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"Power is only vouchsafed to the man who dares to stoop and pick it up."
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"It is an incapacitating emotion one feels upon hearing the whispered words "I still love you" after deeply hurting that soul. Forgiveness isn't weakness.It is power."
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"Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?"
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"As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power."
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"So they finally gave you the license to kill, about time."
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"Always remember...the stronger your position in life, the more enemies you're gonna have .. while friends come and go."
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"True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare."
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"Extravagant sartorial display had a purpose. It created the impression of wealth and power on the opponent and pride in the wearer which has been lost sight of in our nervously egalitarian times."
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"If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality."
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"A journey of observation must leave as much as possible to chance. Random movement is the best plan for maximum observation."
Observation
"I had learned years ago never to give original documents to anyone if I could help it."
Caution
"My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind."
Tradition
"Osman and Prideep had been in my employment for some weeks. Every Friday I would take the to lunch. It was the high point of their calender. During the meal I would harangue them as a reminder of what they had been hired for: but my orations never seemed to increase their output. I realised later that, in the East, a commitment to produce does not automatically accompany employment."
Culture
"Running an expedition can bring out the worst in a man. It can make you a power-crazed monster."
Leadership
"In some peculiar way, indeed, the rules were now beginning to seem quite logical. It was then I knew that I had been in India long enough."
Adaptation
"A journey, I reflected, is of no merit unless it has tested you."
Journey
"Searching for a lost city is a particularly European obsession."
Exploration
"The mere mention of the Farakka Express, which jerks its way eastward each day from Delhi to Calcutta, is enough to throw even a seasoned traveller into fits of apoplexy. At a desert encampment on Namibia's Skeleton Coast, a hard-bitten adventurer had downed a peg of local fire-water then told me the tale. Farakka was a ghost train, he said, haunted by ghouls, Thuggees, and thieves. Only a passenger with a death wish would go anywhere near it."
Fear
"Respect was one thing. Survival was another. It was important that I kept my priorities in the right order."
Survival
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