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When I was a kid, 'Land of the Lost' was my favorite show, just because it was - in the landscape of...

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One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.

I find age such a foreign concept. I have to be reminded. I still have the extraordinary feeling of ...

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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual a...

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Abraham Joshua HeschelGod in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism

Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number ...

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One mustn't refuse the unusual, if it is offered to one.

... what ease our seemingly entrenched lives might be altered were we simply to walk down a corridor...

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I suppose all fictional characters, especially in adventure or heroic fiction, at the end of the day...

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You are engaging in madness. I feel obliged to accompany you.

Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.

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Alexandre DumasThe Three Musketeers

No one is as brave, as adventurous or as skillful as D'Artagnan, without at the same time being incl...

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Alexandre DumasThe Vicomte de Bragelonne

who journeyed to Denver, who died in Denver, who came back to Denver & waited in vain, who watched o...

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Let's end by pointing out all the positive ways you can scare yourself and feel alive. You can tell ...

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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a...

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As I looked out at the glittering waters of the Pacific I was seeing for Carl. He knew that it's not...

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Pilgrims were people glad to take off their clothing, which was on fire.

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Anne CarsonPlainwater: Essays and Poetry

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you've got great food and adventure. First and foremos...

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For my part, if a man must needs be a knave I would have him a debonair knave... It makes your sin n...

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A year jammed full of adventure and misadventure, strides forward and many steps backward, another y...

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Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure.

Take it all in all, I do not believe anybody on Earth has it worse than an Emperor penguin.

Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.

The big blank spaces in the map are all being filled in, and there's no room for romance anywhere.

He had always wanted to write music, and he could give no other identity to the thing he sought. If ...

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Bulgaria, I reflected as I walked back to the hotel, isn’t a country; it’s a near-death experience.

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Bill BrysonNeither Here nor There: Travels in Europe

Space offers extraordinary potential for commerce and adventure, for new innovations and new tests o...

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The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremel...

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The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremel...

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The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremel...

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The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremel...

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The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremel...

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The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremel...

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The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremel...

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The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremel...

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Wayne: You wanna know why I really came to find you?Waxilliam: Why?Wayne: I thought of you happy in ...

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I'm not a parenting expert. In fact, I'm not sure that I even believe in the idea of 'parenting expe...

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Space tourism is a logical outgrowth of the adventure tourist market.

'Anthony and the Magic Picture Frame' tells it like it really was in America's early space program -...

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As we begin to have landings on the moon, we can alternate those with vertical launch of similar cre...

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One of the drawbacks about adventures is that when you come to the most beautiful places you are oft...

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One of the drawbacks about adventures is that when you come to the most beautiful places you are oft...

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C. S. LewisThe Horse and His Boy

I knew then that I would devote every minute we had left together to making her happy, to repairing...

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Ben invented mathematical theories that even he didn't manage to remember and wrote such bizarre tal...

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I imagine some people, like some toys, are born defective - which I suppose makes us all broken toys...

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Magnus threw the monkey a fig. The monkey took the fig."There," said Magnus. "Let us consider the ma...

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Magnus's ship would sail that night...His interest in the ship and his thoughts of an adventure to c...

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He lifted a glass. Ragnor and Catarina did not join him, but Magnus was happy to make the toast on h...

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Marriage is a risk; I think it's a great and glorious risk, as long as you embark on the adventure i...

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Her endeavor was misguided and wrong and maybe plain crazy, akin to someone waking up one day and de...

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A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

If I let a gust of wind or a sprinkling of rain turn me aside from the easy tasks, what preparation ...

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It is a very strange sensation to inexperience youth to feel itself quite alone the world, cut adrif...

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I had a project for my life which involved 10 years of wandering, then some years of medical studies...

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The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes fro...

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Do not stalk your prey until you are sure it is prey

Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it...

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When I did 'Bird,' it was a surprise to some people, first because I wasn't in it and second because...

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I will say that as I get older and calmer and quieter in my own self, the one quality in a woman tha...

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

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Craig FergusonAmerican on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

Before you know it you'll be my age telling your own granddaughter the story of your life and you wa...

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The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the w...

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I gasped and pointed the way. I gave you an adventure, Ed, right in front of you but you never saw i...

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The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The t...

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Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.

One person may need (or want) more leisure, another more work; one more adventure, another more secu...

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Too much mystery is merely an annoyance. Too much adventure is exhausting. And a little terror goes ...

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Here be dragons to be slain, here be rich rewards to gain;If we perish in the seeking, why, how smal...

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Dorothy L. SayersCatholic Tales and Christian Songs

And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man ...

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Douglas AdamsThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

I began doing writing projects and art and design projects to explore a new way of seeing Canada. Ro...

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When an American family becomes separated from its toothbrushes and combs and pajamas for a few hour...

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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.

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E. M. ForsterA Passage to India

Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.

What are you Tarzan?" he asked aloud. "An ape or a man? If you are an ape, you will do as the apes d...

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He longed for the little cabin and the sun-kissed sea - for the cool interior of the well-built hous...

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I have discovered that even the mediocre can have adventures and even the fearful can achieve.

One final paragraph of advice: do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast....a ...

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Beyond the wall of the unreal city … there is another world waiting for you. It is the old true worl...

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To all of you who have made my being alive so wonderful, so exciting and so full, my thanks and all ...

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The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and witho...

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He looked around. The room, a few suitcases, some belongings, a handful of well-read books— a man ne...

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Erich Maria RemarqueArch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country

i had a dream when i was 22 that someday i would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on ...

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

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.

Merciful God!" sighed the General. "We've arrived." And it was true. For there was the sea, and on t...

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Gabriel García MárquezThe General in His Labyrinth

I get up in the morning looking for an adventure.

My father did not have to trade dying alone for the joys of the road. My mother did not have to give...

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Rocinante was of more value for a true traveller than a jet plane. Jet planes were for business men.

Motionless we traverse countries we fancy we see, and your thought, blending with the fiction, playi...

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Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures.

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Guy DebordThe Society of the Spectacle

Life is two things. Life is morality – life is adventure. Squire and master. Adventure rules, and mo...

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It was in a swampy village on the lagoon river behind the Turner Peninsula that Pollock's first enco...

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H. G. WellsGreat Tales of Horror and the Supernatural

What is this spirit in man that urges him forever to depart from happiness and security, to toil, to...

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H. G. WellsThe First Men in the Moon

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature nor do the children of men as a whole...

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