"We have built our State on the freedom of personal adventure."

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Source : John Grierson (1966). “Grierson on Documentary”, p.193, Univ of California Press

John Grierson

#Adventure Quotes #Funny Travel Quotes #States Quotes

“There is one great truth in western politics that I have been able to see, and that is this: The more left wing your political ideals are, the more naive a person you are likely to be. The more right wing your political ideals are, the more evil a person you are likely to be. Choosing a political standpoint is largely a matter of deciding which failure as a human you are more comfortable with.”
“As far as I'm concerned there shouldn't be a single boot on the ground. There's enough American blood in Iraq that lasts forever.”
“I am confident that there are hedge funds, banks or investment companies that could allocate five percent of their portfolios for risky investments. In any event, for countries like Afghanistan the formation of an entrepreneurial class is of vital importance.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“At times our need for a sympathetic gesture is so great that we care not what exactly it signifies or how much we may have to pay for it afterwards.”
“To stand up for someone was to stitch your fate into the lining of theirs.”

Source : Tom Rob Smith (2009). “Child 44”, p.126, Simon and Schuster
“I think that witnessing ecological problems visible from space is one of the new and essential roles of astronauts”
“There is a close connection between art and religion in the sense that both are concerned about questions of meaning - if not about the meaning of existence generally, then certainly about the meaning of one's individual life and how a person relates to his or her total community/environment.”
“Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memory of use and custom and behold it, as it were, for the first time.”

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