Wilfrid Noyce quotes
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“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.”
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“Ever since a small boy, I have loved just to look at the mountains, to see them in different lights and from different angles, to feel their rough rock under my fingers and the breath of the winds against my feet... I am in love with the mountains.”
-- Wilfrid Noyce
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“I know that you should always say yes to adventures or you'll lead a very dull life.”
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“But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.”
Source : Agnes Smedley (2012). “Daughter of Earth”, p.123, Courier Corporation
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Source : Alain Badiou, Nicolas Truong (2012). “In Praise Of Love”, p.32, Profile Books
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“The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.”
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“Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.”
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