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• Tightly-plotted, well-researched and beautifully drawn, this book is a real delight. Garen Ewing's mix of engaging characters, exciting old-school adventure, attractive ligne claire artwork and fluid storytelling makes The Rainbow Orchid easily one of the best graphic novels of the year.

  Bryan Talbot

  Real, Book, Character

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• What would our lives be like without tests, odds against us, adventure, risk?

  Richard Bach

  Odds, Risk, Life Is Like

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• Study what you love, and youll never have to work a day in your life. Itll be one great adventure.

  David Gerrold

  Study, Great Adventure, What You Love

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• Theres two tiers of science fiction: the McDonalds sci-fi like Star Trek, where they have an adventure and solve it before the last commercial, and there are books that once youve read, you never look at the world the same way again.

  David Gerrold

  Stars, Book, Mcdonalds

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• Jewish history turns out not to be an either/or story - as in, either pure Judaism detached from its surroundings or else assimilation - but rather, for the vast majority, the adventure of living in between.

  Simon Schama

  Majority, Stories, Surroundings

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• Passion--it's the driving force that you just can't ignore. It's what will make your new adventure seem more like fun, than work. It's the difference between wanting to start a business and craving it.

  Mac Anderson

  Fun, Passion, Differences

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• The Hawley Book of the Dead had me completely spellbound from beginning to end. A storytelling virtuosa, Chrysler Szarlan has woven a wondrous, scintillating web of suspense, love, history, and magic that will keep you eagerly turning the pages late into the night. Even readers not normally drawn to the supernatural will be swept away by this book; it has everything a great adventure should have-and so much more.

  Anne Fortier

  Book, Night, Should Have

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• To my mind, an adventure is something a person willingly undertakes.

  Nathaniel Philbrick

  Mind, Persons

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• The adventure of life is to learn.

  William Arthur Ward

  Life Is

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• The Cloud Roads has wildly original worldbuilding, diverse and engaging characters, and a thrilling adventure plot. It's that rarest of fantasies: fresh and surprising, with a story that doesn't go where ten thousand others have gone before. I can't wait for my next chance to visit the Three Worlds!

  N.K. Jemisin

  Character, Clouds, Waiting

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• Following Simon's adventures is like being the pinball in an especially antic game, but it's well worth the wear and tear.

  Charlaine Harris

  Games, Tears, Pinball

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• Sure, you can choose the safety and predictability of the cage, forfeiting the adventure God has destined for you. But you won't be the only one missing out or losing out. When you lack the courage to chase the Wild Goose, the opportunity costs are staggering. Who might not hear about the love of God if you don't seize the opportunity to tell them? Who might be stuck in poverty, stuck in ignorance, stuck in pain if you're not there to help free them? Where might the advance of God's kingdom in the world stall out because you weren't there on the front lines?

  Mark Batterson

  Pain, Ignorance, Opportunity

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• A woman who rides a motorcycle is in tune with the universe, a candidate for high adventure.

  Celestine Sibley

  Motorcycle, Tunes, Candidates

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• For many, the icon of the British Museum is the Rosetta Stone, that administrative by-product of the Greek imperial adventure in Africa.

  Neil MacGregor

  Museums, Icons, Greek

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• I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds of energies in rehabilitation of its poor as long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, Skills, America

  Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

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• Choose to be entrepreneur because then YOU create value. Choose to be an entrepreneur because the products, services, and jobs you create then become the lifeblood of our nation. But most of all, choose to be an entrepreneur because then you desire a life of adventure, endless challenge, and the opportunity to be your BEST SELF.

  John Gokongwei

  Jobs, Opportunity, Self

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• Eventually, competition and adventure wane, and I enter my ibuprofen phase. Tweaky hamstrings and achy knees restrict mileage, but I continue running for health, sanity, and the ritual of a Sunday trail run with like-minded buddies. We discuss the nagging injuries that bedevil us, and remember the good old days when we were kings.

  Don Kardong

  Running, Kings, Sunday

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• Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road. Escaped from Atlanta. Thou shalt not return, 'cause “the West is the best.” And now after two rambling years comes the final and greatest adventure, the climactic battle to kill the false being within and victoriously conclude the spiritual revolution. Ten days and nights of freight trains and hitchhiking bring him to the great white North. No longer to be poisoned by civilization he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become lost in the wild.

  Christopher McCandless

  Spiritual, Home, Night

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• A quibble is to Shakespeare what luminous vapours are to the traveller: he follows it at all adventures; it is sure to lead him out of his way and sure to engulf him in the mire.

  Samuel Johnson

  Vapour, Way, Traveller

  'The Plays of William Shakespeare, with Notes' (1765) preface (Yale ed., p. 74)

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• The Enormous Room seems to me to be the book that has nearest approached the mood of reckless adventure in which men will reach the white heat of imagination needed to fuse the soggy disjointed complexity of the industrial life about us into seething fluid of creation. There can be no more playing safe.

  John Dos Passos

  Book, Creativity, Men

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• In a living civilization there is always an element of unrest, for sensitiveness to ideas means curiosity, adventure, change. Civilized order survives on its merits and is transformed by its power of recognizing its imperfections.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Mean, Ideas, Order

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• Tis going, I own, like the Knight of the Woeful Countenance, in quest of melancholy adventures--but I know not how it is, but I am never so perfectly conscious of the existence of a soul within me, as when I am entangled in them.

  Laurence Sterne

  Knights, Soul, Sorrow

  Laurence Sterne, Melvyn New, Geoffrey Day (2006). “A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy: And, Continuation of the Bramine's Journal : with Related Texts”, p.156, Hackett Publishing

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• What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life by him who interests his heart in every thing, and who, having eyes to see, what time and chance are perpetually holding out to him as he journeyeth on his way, misses nothing he can fairly lay his hands on.

  Laurence Sterne

  Eye, Heart, Hands

  Laurence Sterne (1832). “The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman”, p.260

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• Psychotherapy can be one of the greatest and most rewarding adventures, it can bring with it the deepest feelings of personal worth, of purpose and richness in living.

  Eda LeShan

  Feelings, Purpose, Personal Worth

  Eda J. LeShan (1965). “How to survive parenthood”

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• Traveling - it offers you a hundred roads to adventure, and gives your heart wings!

  Ibn Battuta

  Heart, Wings, Giving

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