Jon Krakauer Quotes
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Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale.
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Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.
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The first time I heard Adam Feeney and Chester Stone Hansen's 'Vibez,' it was used in Drake's '0-100' as a sample.
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I am from a family of farmers from Budhana near Muzaffarnagar.
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What happens in the music business is that if you step out of your little spot to do something else, the sand falls right into where you stood and you're gone, you're history.
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Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
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Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents.
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Dinner parties are still highly popular, and I believe they always will be.
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I feel like you can be the best role model by being yourself.
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I never joined, but I used to go to church now and then. I liked it, because they always passed out plates of money at the end.
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But learned people can analyze for me why I fear hell and their implication is that there is no hell. But I believe in hell. Hell seems a great deal more feasible to my weak mind than heaven. No doubt because hell is a more earth-seeming thing. I can fancy the tortures of the damned but I cannot imagine the disembodied souls hanging in a crystal for all eternity praising God.
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In my suffrage work, I learned beyond question that the news coming through the great press agencies was colored and distorted; and if this has been done on one subject, it has doubtless been done on others. A good many women, I think, learned a wholesome distrust of press reports during the suffrage struggle.
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A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing. A cheap Christianity, without a cross, will prove in the end a useless Christianity, without a crown.
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Purim is the birthday of the first Schutz-Jude , the first Jewish toady to foreign royalty.
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I really do not care what the white world is doing. I care about black people building the monument on slavery.
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People are just like farm equipment. They rust out quicker than they wear out.
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Whether a watercolor is inferior to an oil [painting], or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important as either, is inconsequent. To have to despise something in order to respect something else is a sign of impotence.
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The Advent season is that time when we seek to, in a manner of speaking, mute our memory of what has already happened, that we might brighten our joy that it happened. We leave the already of His advent to taste the bitter of the not yet. We, in short, go back, that we might look forward to His coming.
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The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.
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Love is a spirit all compact of fire.
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If there's a spirit world why don't the ghosts of dead artists get together and inhibit bad playwrights from tormenting first-nighters?
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The core of mans' spirit comes from new experiences.
