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Adventurers Quotes
On explorers, risk-takers, and the deeds they leave behind.
This page gathers quotes celebrating adventurers as the ones who actually get things done, often more than the powerful figures who claim credit. One quote references the crusades to argue a religion shouldn't be blamed for a few individuals' actions.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Instead of inventing imaginary friends, I invented whole imaginary worlds. They were elaborate scenarios about spies and adventurers and top secret missions. I crawled along my swing set, searching for escape routes from my maximum-security prison; I biked through the neighborhood, the wind in my hair and a fleet of evildoers on my heels.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there ever was a religious war full of terror, it was the crusades. But you can't blame Christianity because a few adventurers did this. That's my message.
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It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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In the 19th century, we didn't much like the loud annexationist voices south of the border or American support for Sinn Fein adventurers who thought, by seizing the Canadian colonies, they could force Britain out of Ireland.
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The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.
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The common class of mankind are actuated by no nobler principle than that of self-interest; this and this alone determines all adventurers in privateers: the owners, as well as those whom they employ.
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