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"The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples."
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"In an age of guidebooks, websites, and radio waves, discovery has nearly become a lost feeling. If anything, it is now a matter of expectations to surpass-rarely a matter of unexpected wonderment. It is unusual to find a situation that appears without word, or a place that was not known to be on the road."

"Walking out with the people, I didn't know which was more exciting, the air race, the parachute jump that failed, or the cunt."

"A man cannot deserve adventures, he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs."

"Lured by the wilderness, and by the chance of spotting rare desert elephants, a few intrepid tourists make their way to the Skeleton Coast each year. It's just about as remote as any tourist destination on earth, but one that pays fabulous dividends."

"Freedom was a foot away when they turned back to me. The one who kept speaking, a tall vamp with a handsome curly-haired glamour, shook his head. 'Sorry.' He bared his fangs in an apologetic grin. 'We're glad you aren't what's hunting us, but we're no friends of IPCA. And we're all very, very, thirsty.''What, no flirting?' I asked, trying to buy time. 'Aren't you going to at least try to be sexy? Think of all those vampire fans out there--they'd be so disappointed.' I pulled out my silver knife. Probably should have paid more attention during my knife training. 'Tell you what. Let me go and I promise not to tell anyone that you aren't suave."

"If you knew what lies ahead on the path, it would not be an adventure, now would it?"

"There's only one place I want to go and it's to all the places I've never been."
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"The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence."


"Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible."


"The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth."


"Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men."


"The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart."


"There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems."


"People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives."
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