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• I learned that the richness of life is found in adventure. . . . It develops self-reliance and independence. Life then teems with excitement. There is stagnation only in security.

  William O. Douglas

  Nature, Adventure, Journey

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• The excitement of life is in the numinous experience wherein we are given to each other in that larger celebration of existence in which all things attain their highest expression, for the universe, by definition, is a single gorgeous celebratory event.

  Thomas Berry

  Life, Expression, Definitions

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• But games always cover something deep and intense, else there would be no excitement in them, no pleasure, no power to stir us.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Power, Games, Would Be

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• The only difference between 'fear' and 'excitement' is what we label it.

  Peter McWilliams

  Fear, Differences, Labels

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• The only difference between fear and excitement is what we label it. The two are pretty much the same physiological/emotional reaction. With fear, we put a negative spin on it: "Oh no!" With excitement, we give it some positive english: "Oh, boy!"

  Peter McWilliams

  Fear, Boys, Emotional

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• The world needs actual excitement and emotion more than it needs cool people.

  Amanda Palmer

  People, Needs, World

  "Ukelele Techno Sucks: Interview With Amanda Palmer". Interview with Scott Thill, www.wired.com. September 30, 2008.

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• The object, Truth, or the satisfaction of the intellect, and the object, Passion, or the excitement of the heart, are, although attainable, to a certain extent, in poetry, far more readily attainable in prose.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Passion, Heart, Satisfaction

  Edgar Allan Poe (2016). “Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works”, p.147, Lulu.com

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• Someone once told me not to be afraid of being afraid, because, as she said, 'Anxiety is a glimpse of your own daring.' Isn't that great? It means that part of your agitation is just excitement about what you're getting ready to accomplish. Don't sell yourself short by being so afraid of failure that you don't dare to make any mistakes. Make your mistakes and learn from them. And remember: No matter how many mistakes you make, your mother always loves you!

  Maria Shriver

  Mother, Mistake, Love You

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• It is the artist's responsibility to be the oracle, to abstract where you are - that is our responsibility - we're not there to look glamorous. We're there to tune into the frequency of the Earth and the connective tissues of those things that we are responding to - language, colour, costume, literature, poetry, cuisine, perfume - these are the things that make up the desire to throw paint on a canvas, these are the things that create the excitement for building a new language!

  Lisa Gerrard

  Responsibility, Desire, Literature

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• I talk to bankers, distributors, marketing people. I used to sit at home in my tracksuit bottoms, and the real excitement of my day would be going out to get a copy of Private Eye and a latte.

  Rachel Johnson

  Real, Eye, Home

  "Rachel Johnson: 'I have a duty not to be boring'". Interview With Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2010.

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• The feeling it gave me was an odd combination of weightless self-pity and excitement. I understood my life was meaningless, and this knowledge freed me up to accomplish absolutely anything.

  Matt de la Pena

  Self, Feelings, Odd

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• Part of the excitement was just seeing how the world would respond. I kind of like uncertainty to some extent, because it's a little bit of suspense and excitement and adventure, almost, right? And you can learn a lot even if things don't work out. But not everyone likes adventure. A lot of people seem to be against uncertainty, actually. In all areas of life.

  Paul Buchheit

  Adventure, People, Work Out

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• I do feel for me that cinema has somehow ceased to be a spectator sport. I get tremendous excitement out of making it rather than watching it.

  Peter Greenaway

  Sports, Cinema, Feels

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• There's nothing like a headless corpse to bring a touch of excitement into one's life.

  Chet Williamson

  Headless, Corpses

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• I want to bring excitement back to the heavyweight division.

  Deontay Wilder

  Heavyweights, Division, Want

  "Deontay Wilder decisions Stiverne" by Dan Rafael, abcnews.go.com. January 18, 2015.

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• On general principles, it is best that I should not leave the country. Scotland Yard feels lonely without me, and it causes an unhealthy excitement among the criminal classes.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Country, Lonely, Travel

  "The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax" (1911)

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• Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of battle.

  George S. Patton

  Discipline, Battle, Stronger

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• Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, "ye cannot enter the kingdom of God." One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Birthday, Children, Turning 50

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• If a man's aspirations towards a righteous life are serious.. .if he earnestly and sincerely seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from animal food, because, not to mention the excitement of the passions produced by such food, it is plainly immoral, as it requires an act contrary to moral feeling, i. e., killing - and is called forth only by greed.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Passion, Men, Animal

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• A longing for excitement can be satisfied without external means within oneself: For creating is the most intense excitement one can come to know.

  Anni Albers

  Mean, Creating, Longing

  Anni Albers (1962). “On designing”

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• I love the excitement, the childlike spirit of innocence and just about everything that goes along with Christmas.

  Hillary Scott

  Christmas, Innocence, Spirit

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• Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. . . . It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Dog, Travel, Gambling

  George Bernard Shaw (1988). “Collected letters: 1926-1950”, Vintage

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• The real stumbling-block of totalitarian regimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth.

  Simone Weil

  Spiritual, Block, Real

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.189, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• I come alive, in front of the mirror, skipping and dancing and acting the fool. Dance is both escape and excitement.

  Jody Watley

  Mirrors, Dancing, Ballet

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• Here is something you have to understand about stories: They point you in the right direction but they can't take you all the way there. Stories are crescent moons; they glimmer in the night sky, but they are most exquisite in their incomplete state. Because people crave the beauty of not-knowing, the excitement of suggestion, and the sweet tragedy of mystery.

  Diana Abu-Jaber

  Sweet, Moon, Night

  Diana Abu-Jaber (2004). “Crescent: A Novel”, p.384, W. W. Norton & Company

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