"The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer..."

-- Jose Bergamin

#Country Quotes #War Quotes #Adventure Quotes

“To me, it's far more efficient to mobilize the imagination. It's far more efficient to hear a creaking step, for example, than to see the face of a monster, which usually looks ridiculous, and where you know that the blood is ketchup.”
“No man can discover his own talents.”
“Write the unpublishable.. .and then publish it.”
“When it comes to being slaves to fashion, American managers make adolescent girls look like rugged individualists.”
“Forty years ago, my life in music was substantially different to today. I went out every night with my guitar seeking a place to sing, a floor on which to lie, some love, some food, a lot of wine. There was no business, no gigs, no questions, no P.R., recording, life was simpler, I was poor and young and hungry. Today I am a lot more focused on The Song.”
“Permit me then to recommend from the sincerity of my heart, ready at all times to bleed in my country's cause, a Declaration of Independence, and call upon the world and the Great God who governs it to witness the necessity, propriety and rectitude thereof.”
“And even when success comes, as I am sure it will, bear in mind that there are more quiet and enviable joys than to be among the most sought after women at a ball...”

Source : Blanche Wiesen Cook (1992). “Eleanor Roosevelt: 1884-1933”
“Culture, as Indian people understood it, was basically a lifestyle byÂ which a people acted. It was self-expression, but not a consciousÂ self-expression. Rather, it was an expression of the essence of a people.”

Source : Vine Deloria,Jr. (1971). “Custer Died For Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto”

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