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• Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do.

  Edward Abbey

  Fun, Climbing, Floating

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.38, RosettaBooks

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• Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

  Dale Carnegie

  Time, Travel, Life And Love

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “How to enjoy your life and your job”, p.54, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• New discoveries in science and their flow of new inventions will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.

  Herbert Hoover

  Travel, Discovery, Politics

  "Addresses Upon the American Road, 1948-1950".

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• I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Death

  Walden ch. 2 (1854)

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• To travel is to live.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Travel

  Beth Wagner Brust, Hans Christian Andersen (1994). “The Amazing Paper Cuttings of Hans Christian Andersen”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self.... And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one's self.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Life, Motivational, Self

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• I didn't say no because between safety and adventure I choose adventure.

  Craig Ferguson

  Safety

  Craig Ferguson (2009). “American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot”, p.2, Harper Collins

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• Here’s to freedom, cheers to art. Here’s to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start.

  Jason Mraz

  Art, Travel, Cheer

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  I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

  Herman Melville

  Travel, Sea, Land

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.12

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• I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind and spirit.

  Jacqueline Cochran

  Travel, Hands, Flying

  Jacqueline Cochran, Maryann Bucknum Brinley, Maryann Busknum (1988). “Jackie Cochran: An Autobiography”, Bantam

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• The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Travel, Passive Voice, People

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• Security is a kind of death.

  Tennessee Williams

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Tennessee Williams (1945). “The Glass Menagerie”, p.104, New Directions Publishing

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• Adventurer: he that goes to meet whatever may come. Well, that is what we all do in the world one way or another.

  H. Rider Haggard

  World, May, Way

  H. Rider Haggard (2015). “Allan Quatermain: Mystery & Adventure Story”, p.72, 谷月社

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• Writing a book is an adventure.

  Winston Churchill

  Book, Writing, Writing A Book

  Winston Churchill (1965). “Winston Churchill, His Wit and Wisdom: Selections from His Works and Speeches”

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  Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  "The Road Not Taken" l. 16 (1916)

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• The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Motivational, Education, Time

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “The Goddess Abides: A Novel”, p.49, Open Road Media

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• Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Cute, Marriage, Funny Love

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• Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

  Norman Cousins

  Inspirational, Forgiveness, Life Changing

  Norman Cousins (1989). “Head First: The Biology of Hope and the Healing Power of the Human Spirit”, Penguin Group USA

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• A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Art, Travel, Mind

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• The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure.

  Christopher McCandless

  Passion, Men, New Experiences

  In a letter to Russell Fritz (as known as Ron Franz), April 1992 in "Back to the Wild" by Chris McCandless and Mary Ellen Barnes, (2nd ed.), Twin Star Press, (pp. 135-137), 2013.

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• War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Travel, War, Heads Or Tails

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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• You're never too young to die.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Young, Alex Rider, Dies

  Anthony Horowitz (2000). “Stormbreaker”, Candlewick Press (MA)

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• Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Art, Travel, Funny Travel

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• Chance is the providence of adventurers.

  Laurence Sterne

  Inspirational, Chance, Providence

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• But in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure.

  Christopher McCandless

  Passion, Reality, Men

  Letter to Russell Fritz (as known as Ron Franz), April 1992.

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