"When I began work on my first book, The River of Doubt, which tells the story of Theodore Roosevelts 1914 descent of an unmapped river in the Amazon rainforest, I thought of it as a tale of adventure, exploration and extraordinary courage."

-- Candice Millard

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“Every day when I open the mail I encounter a find with a brand-new brew of story and emotion.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.”

Source : Isaac Barrow (1830). “The works of Dr. Isaac Barrow”, p.412
“Allied air power was the greatest single reason for the German defeat.”

Source : "Tail-End Charlies: The Last Battles of the Bomber War, 1944-45". Book by John Nichol and Tony Rennell, 2006.
“Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run. I like to make people stop and say, 'I've never seen anyone run like that before.' It's more than just a race, it's a style. It's doing something better than anyone else. It's being creative.”
“I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.”
“God's big plan: go love everybody, always!”
“Retirement is not in my vocabulary. They aren't going to get rid of me that way.”
“Anarchy, when it works to destroy authority in all its aspects, when it demands the abrogation of laws and the abolition of the mechanism that serves to impose them, when it refuses all hierarchical organization and preaches free agreement - at the same time strives to maintain and enlarge the precious kernel of social customs without which no human or animal society can exist. Only, instead of demanding that those social customs should be maintained through the authority of a few, it demands it from the continued action of all.”

Source : "Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal". Book by Peter Kropotkin, 1898.

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