"If adventure has a final and all-embracing motive, it is surely this: we go out because it is our nature to go out, to climb mountains, and to paddle rivers, to fly to the planets and plunge into the depths of the oceans... When man ceases to do these things, he is no longer man."

-- Wilfrid Noyce

#Ocean Quotes #Adventure Quotes #Men Quotes

“I feel absolutely no threat or fear in Mexico City.”
“Our whole way of life today is dedicated to the removal of risk. Cradle to grave we are supported, insulated, and isolated from the risks of life - and if we fail, our government stands ready with Bandaids of every size.”
“Can you imagine if you really let it in that you are not a problem to be solved in any way? Imagine you knew that anything that would tell you otherwise is just a movement of thought in the mind that says "Whatever is, isn't the way it is supposed to be." So the biggest act of compassion starts within. And when the self is no longer seen as a problem, this is called "the peace that passes all understanding."”
“Life cannot have had a random beginning. ... The trouble is that there are about two thousand enzymes, and the chance of obtaining them all in a random trial is only one part in 10 to the 40,000 power, an outrageously small probability that could not be faced even if the whole universe consisted of organic soup.”

Source : "Evolution from Space". Book by Chandra Wickramasinghe and Fred Hoyle, 1981.
“Avoid taking a definite stand on great public issues either in the Senate or before the people. Bend your energies towards making friends of key men in all classes of voters.”
“History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.”
“Then she made up her mind.It was absurd to pretend that he did not exist.It no longer hurt her to see him. She opened the door wide and let him into her life again.”
“Look, donâ€™t get me wrong. I worship the ground this guy walks on. Iâ€™m excited to meet him tonight. Iâ€™m dying to meet him tonight. If he wanted to carry me off and make me his love slave, Iâ€™d do it, so long as I got advance copies of his books.”

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