"Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers,……" — James Joyce

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• Governments of rich countries spend some $6bn of tax money a year on disaster relief and development aid overseas, while… — James Buchan
• It is unfortunate that so much of the history of Africa has been written by conquerors, foreigners, missionaries and adventurers.… — John Henrik Clarke
• Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books:… — Isabel Allende
• That faculty of beholding at a hint the face of his desire and the shape of his dream, without which… — Joseph Conrad
• The bold adventurer succeeds the best. — Ovid
• We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge, we're only alive. — Alexander Eliot
• Chance is the providence of adventurers. — Laurence Sterne
• I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate. — Vincent Van Gogh
• Adventurer: he that goes to meet whatever may come. Well, that is what we all do in the world one… — H. Rider Haggard
• He had not a cent in his pocket, but he had faith. He had decided, the night before, that he… — Paulo Coelho
• Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the… — Jean Batten
• None but the ignorant can be bored by life. To the lovers of learning, life is pure adventure shared with… — Pearl S. Buck

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