"As long as there are young men with the light of adventure in their eyes or a touch of wilderness in their souls, rapids will be run."

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Source : "Singing Wilderness".

Sigurd F. Olson

#Running Quotes #Adventure Quotes #Eye Quotes

“I think dancing is one of the best things anyone can do for themselves. And it doesn't cost anything.”
“The obvious objective of video games is to entertain people by surprising them with new experiences.”

Source : "The Year In Violence" by Michael Thomsen, www.ign.com. December 18, 2007.
“Unless people can see broad vistas of unused resources in front of them, the belief in limited resources tends to follow as a matter of course. And if the idea is accepted that the world's resources are fixed, then each person is ultimately the enemy of every other person, and each race or nation is the enemy of every other race or nation. The extreme result is tyranny, war and even genocide. Only in a universe of unlimited resources can all men be brothers.”

Source : Robert Zubrin (2012). “The Case For Mars”, p.331, Simon and Schuster
“Where once a tyrant had to wish that his subjects had but one common neck that he might strangle them all at once, all he has to do now is to 'educate the people' so that they will have but one common mind to delude.”

Source : Richard Mitchell (1987). “The leaning tower of Babel and other affronts by the Underground grammarian”, Fireside
“Every company is its own TV station, magazine, and newspaper.”
“Will you still want me if I'm poor, Kat?" "What kind of question is that?" "No. Seriously. You're the planner. Simon's the genius. The Bagshaws are the muscle. And Gabrielle is . . . Gabrielle. But what am I, Kat? I'm the guy who writes the checks." "No. You're the most naturally gifted inside man I have ever seen. And I was raised by Bobby Bishop." She made him look into her eyes. "I don't care about your money.”
“I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist.”
“Women scheme when they are weak, they lie out of fear. Men scheme when they are strong, they lie out of arrogance.”

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