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

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

H. Rider Haggard

#Adventure Quotes #World Quotes #May Quotes

“Your choices: spend, and believe in things; save, and believe in money.”
“Reprogramming the unconscious beliefs that block fuller awareness of creative/intuitive capabilities depends upon a key characteristic of the mind, namely that it responds to what is vividly imagined as though it were real experience.”
“In contrast [to trees and fish], oil, metals, and coal are not renewable; they don't reproduce, sprout, or have sex to produce baby oil droplets or coal nuggets.”
“The Master hath called us, in life's early morning, With spirits as fresh as the dew on the sod: We turn from the world, with its smiles and its scorning, To cast in our lot with the people of God.”

Source : Sarah Doudney (2017). “Sarah Doudney: Selected Poems and Hymns”, p.196, Lulu.com
“Enjoy yourselves. And Hap: Don't let Umber near the arrows and bows; he's liable to shoot himself in the nose." Dodd grinned and snapped the reins, and the carriage rolled away. Umber sniffed. "One of his lesser poems. Come, Hap.”

Source : P. W. Catanese (2010). “Dragon Games”, p.38, Simon and Schuster
“You just have to go after what you want and if it doesn't want you back then so be it; it doesn't deserve you anyways.”
“I love roles where I am required to prepare physically. And it's fun putting on weight and eating.”
“Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-postsfor support rather than illumination.”

Source : 1910 Speech. Quoted in Alan L Mackay The Harvest of a Quiet Eye (1977).

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