"The whole purpose of an adventure is to gain some spiritual or emotional insight. When you compromise the process, you compromise the gain."

-- Yvon Chouinard

#Spiritual Quotes #Adventure Quotes #Emotional Quotes

“A drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.”
“If art were to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.”
“I was always the only black in the movie theater, the only black in class, the only black in the library, the only black in the discotheque. I always felt observed and judged.”
“The Negro, however, has been tested on an extensive scale.”

Source : Ellsworth Huntington (2016). “A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American”, p.3, VM eBooks
“Virtues go ever in troops; they go so thick, that sometimes some are hid in the crowd; which yet are, but appear not.”
“He became another data point in the American experiment of self-government, an experiment statistically skewed from the outset, because it wasn't the people with sociable genes who fled the crowded Old World for the new continent; it was the people who didn't get along well with others.”
“If people base their identity on identifying with authority, freedom causes anxiety. They must then conceal the victim in themselves by resorting to violence against others.”
“We have our thoughts, our hopes, our fears, and yet we know that in a moment a change may come over any one of us that will convert a living, breathing human being into a mass of lifeless clay.”

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