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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", Chapter 2
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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Adventure is just bad planning.: Roald Amundsen (1872 - 1928)

Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.: Jennie Jerome Churchill (1854 - 1921)
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.: Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, A View of the Nile, 1970
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.: Denis Watley
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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
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Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968), The Open Door (1957)
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