"An adventure is a situation where the outcome is not entirely within your control. It is up to fate, in other words"

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Source : Sebastian Junger (2001). “Fire”, p.166, W. W. Norton & Company

Sebastian Junger

#Adventure Quotes #Fate Quotes #Outcomes Quotes

“We don't think of ourselves as being perfectionists, really. To us it's more about desperately trying to have it sound more or less OK.”
“There'll be a growing disparity between economics and politics. An economy that grows so rapidly is intractably global. On the other hand, the current political system is intractably national. So there is a growing dichotomy between a global economy and locally based politics.”
“He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.”
“All your life you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye, and when something nudges it into outline it is like being ambushed by a grotesque.”
“Have you noticed that life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?”
“It's an amazing feeling to feel that I was able to get a personal connection to the work, through the work of it. But I like the idea that I was able to tell a bunch of people's stories even though I didn't know them.”

Source : Source: wegotthiscovered.com
“Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.”
“But what humans forget, cells remember. The body, that elephant”

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