"We can easily become as much slaves to……" — Randolph Bourne
"We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. Although we can never rivet our fortune so tight as to make it impregnable, we may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life that we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living."
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Randolph Bourne
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21 Quotes by Randolph Bourne
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Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
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War is the Health of the State.
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One keeps healthy in wartime...by a vigorous assertion of values in which war has no part.
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In your reaction to an imagined attack on your country or an insult to its government, you draw closer to…
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War is the health of the State. It automatically sets in motion throughout society these irresistible forces for uniformity, for…
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Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the…
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No matter what we have come through, or how many perils we have safely passed, or how many imperfect and…
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The State is not the nation, and the State can be modified and even abolished in its present form, without…
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The ironic life is a life keenly alert, keenly sensitive, reacting promptly with feelings of liking or dislike to each…
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He who mounts a wild elephant goes where the elephant goes.
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A good discussion increases the dimensions of everyone who takes part.
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All we can ever do in the way of good to people is to encourage them to do good to…
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More Adventurous Quotes
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If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always…
— Roger Bannister
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Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into…
— Taylor Caldwell
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I don't know what any individual should do about crossing her own borders. I only know that I live a…
— Sherman Alexie
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I don't want an uneventful and safe life, I prefer an adventurous one.
— Isabel Allende
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It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is…
— Alan Cohen
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More than any other nation on Earth, America has constantly drawn strength and spirit from wave after wave of immigrants.…
— William J. Clinton
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The adventurous state of mind is a high house... The joy of adventure is unaccountable. This is the attractiveness of…
— Agnes Martin
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We're not afraid of risking what was our success yesterday in order to explore some new field. We're adventurous. We…
— Guy Laliberte
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Like buried treasures, the outposts of the universe have beckoned to the adventurous from immemorial times. Princes and potentates, political…
— George Ellery Hale
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I, like almost all chemists I know, was also attracted by the smells and bangs that endowed chemistry with that…
— Unknown Author
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The strongest and most evil spirits have to date advanced mankind the most: they always rekindled the sleeping passions -…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The thrust of ambition is, and always has been, great, but among the bright-eyed it had once a more adventurous…
— Louis Kronenberger
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