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““I had learned years ago never to give original documents to anyone if I could help it.””

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“As the head of an expedition, you can't pussyfoot around being polite to everyone. You have to show your teeth once in a while;…

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“The last thing we wanted was for the Machiguenga to be sad again. Sadness appeared to bring out their violence.”

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If hot food is they key to maintaining an expedition's stamina, then low grade gut-rot alcohol is the key to sustaining its sense of…

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“Normally I would have been the first to go in search of cannibal monks, particularly as I had heard of a similar tradition at…

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“Inscribed on it was a verse from the Quatrains of Omar Khayyam, the eleventh-century Persian mystic. Reading the words aloud I prepared for a…

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“Moroccan traffic isn't like normal traffic. It's armed combat, a war of wills, in which only the very bravest have a chance to survive.”

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“Prideep pointed to the flames of paraffin lamps as they came alive in the distance and cackled in awe at the experience. (…) I…

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“The very fact that a Frenchman was prepared, after tow minutes of conversation, to be so friendly towards anyone, especially one who had come…

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The taste for glory can make ordinary men behave in extraordinary ways.

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“As anyone who's ever taken an Ethiopian bus knows, there is an unwritten rule that the windows must remain firmly closed.”

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“In some warped way, having an embalmed body with us made perfect sense.”

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“Back at the guest house I tried to acclimatise. A travel-worn adventurer had once told me that leaning with one's head dangling over the…

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We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents cover 109,000…

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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins…

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Others have questions about how it is that God and human beings can both be speaking through the one document such that you can…

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It can be lost, and it will be, if the time ever comes when these documents are regarded not as the supreme expression of…

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Document, evaluate, focus, test.

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