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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.

Simone de Beauvoir

>Adventure is just bad planning.

Roald Amundsen

The very scientist who, in the service of the sinful king, was the brain behind the horror of the labyrinth, quite as readily can serve the purposes of freedom. But the hero-heart must be at hand. \x85 Centuries of husbandry, decades of diligent culling, the work of numerous hearts and hands, have gone into the hackling, sorting, and spinning of this tightly twisted yarn. Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heroes of all time have gone before us \x97 the labyrinth is thoroughly known. We have only to follow the thread of the hero path, and where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence. And where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world.

Joseph Campbell

>Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

Amelia Earhart

The explorers of the past were great men and we should honour them. But let us not forget that their spirit lives on. It is still not hard to find a man who will adventure for the sake of a dream or one who will search, for the pleasure of searching, not for what he may find.

Sir Edmund Hillary

Why should we look for his errors when a brave man dies? Unless we can learn from his experience, there is no need to look for weakness. Rather, we should admire the courage and spirit in his life. What kind of man would live where there is no daring? And is life so dear that we should blame men for dying in adventure? Is there a better way to die?

Charles Lindbergh

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

Helen Keller

The time comes in the life of each of us when we realize that death awaits us as it awaits others, that we will receive at the end neither preference nor exemption. It is then, in that disturbed moment, that we know life is an adventure with an ending, not a succession of bright days that go on forever.

William March

To die would be an awfully big adventure.

J.M. Barrie

I will have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love. Love above all. No... not the artful postures of love, not playful and poetical games of love for the amusement of an evening, but love that... overthrows life. Unbiddable, ungovernable — like a riot in the heart, and nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture. Love — like there has never been in a play.

Tom Stoppard in Shakespeare in Love

"Security is mostly a superstition.  It does not exist in nature... Life is

either a daring adventure or nothing."

But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?

ROBERT BROWNING. 1812-1890.     _Balaustion's Adventure._

Boy Scout is not merely to give you fun and adventure but that, like the backwoodsmen, explorers, and frontiersmen whom you are following, you will be fitting yourself to help your country and to be of service to other people who may be in need of help. That is what the best men are out to do.

Robert Baden-Powell

You can create viable ventures out of turbulent adventure.

Ikechukwu Joseph

"Be *excellent* to each other."

Bill, or Ted, in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure

make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. If you want to get more out of life, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty.

Jon Krakauer

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind. Don't be afraid of being out of tune with your environment, and above all pray God that you are not afraid to live, to live hard and fast. To my way of thinking it is not the years in your life but the life in your years that count in the long run. You'll have more fun, you'll do more and you'll get more, you'll give more satisfaction the more you know, the more you have worked, and the more you have lived. For yours is a great adventure at a stirring time in the annals of men.

Adlai Stevenson

"An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered."

- Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936)

Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.

Jack Kerouac

New discoveries in science…will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who would still adventure.

Hoover, Herbert.

I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.

A.A. Milne

Inspiration is not the exclusive privilege of poets or artists. There is, there has been, there will always be a certain group of people whom inspiration visits. It's made up of all those who've consciously chosen their calling and do their job with love and imagination. It may include doctors, teachers, gardeners — I could list a hundred more professions. Their work becomes one continuous adventure as long as they manage to keep discovering new challenges in it. Difficulties and setbacks never quell their curiosity. A swarm of new questions emerges from every problem that they solve. Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous "I don't know."

Wisława Szymborska

Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.

J.K. Rowling

Helen Keller, who lost both her sight and hearing in childhood but became a renowned activist and author, said that there is no such thing as a secure life. “It does not exist in nature … Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” Risk, then, is not just part of life. It is life. The place between your comfort zone and your dream is where life takes place. It’s the high-anxiety zone, but it’s also where you discover who you are. Karl Wallenda, patriarch of the legendary high-wire-walking family, nailed it when he said: “Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

Nick Vujicic

Security is mostly a superstition... Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

Helen Keller

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

_Bacon._

Is there not glory enough in living the days given to us? You should know there is adventure in simply being among those we love and the things we love, and beauty, too.

Lloyd Alexander

Real Programmers think better when playing Adventure or Rogue.

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To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

J.K. Rowling

Our problem is to become acquainted with our own selves, letting our personalities loose upon the world for the sheer adventure of their full development and in the positive hope that they may in their own way lift the level of humanity.

Norman Vincent Peale

Are there not, dear Michal, Two points in the adventure of the diver,-- One, when a beggar he prepares to plunge; One, when a prince he rises with his pearl? Festus, I plunge.

ROBERT BROWNING. 1812-1890.     _Paracelsus. Part i._

Searching of thy wound, I have by hard adventure found my own.

_As You Like It_, ii. 4.

Is there not glory enough in living the days given to us? You should know there is adventure in simply being among those we love and the things we love, and beauty, too.

Lloyd Alexander (born 30 January 1924

I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.

Arthur Conan Doyle ~ in ~The Adventure of the Three Gables

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        -- Bob & Ray

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"Be *excellent* to each other."

        -- Bill, or Ted, in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure</p>

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VMS, n.:

    The world's foremost multi-user adventure game.

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Frobnitz, pl. Frobnitzem (frob'nitsm) n.:

    An unspecified physical object, a widget.  Also refers to electronic

black boxes.  This rare form is usually abbreviated to FROTZ, or more

commonly to FROB.  Also used are FROBNULE, FROBULE, and FROBNODULE.

Starting perhaps in 1979, FROBBOZ (fruh-bahz'), pl. FROBBOTZIM, has also

become very popular, largely due to its exposure via the Adventure spin-off

called Zork (Dungeon).  These can also be applied to non-physical objects,

such as data structures.

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Life is a grand adventure -- or it is nothing.

        -- Helen Keller

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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

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Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a

mountain in a fog.  But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside

than in bed.  What kind of man would live where there is no daring?

And is life so dear that we should blame men for dying in adventure?

Is there a better way to die?

        -- Charles Lindbergh

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Far back in the mists of ancient time, in the great and glorious days of the

former Galactic Empire, life was wild, rich and largely tax free.

Mighty starships plied their way between exotic suns, seeking adventure and

reward among the furthest reaches of Galactic space.  In those days, spirits

were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women

and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures

from Alpha Centauri.  And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty

deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before -- and thus

was the Empire forged.

        -- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"

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"Largely because it is so tangible and exciting a program and as such will

serve to keep alive the interest and enthusiasm of the whole spectrum of

society...It is justified because...the program can give a sense of shared

>adventure and achievement to the society at large."

        -- Dr. Colin S. Pittendrigh, in "The History of Manned Space Flight"

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Unix is a lot more complicated (than CP/M) of course -- the typical Unix

hacker can never remember what the PRINT command is called this week --

but when it gets right down to it, Unix is a glorified video game.

People don't do serious work on Unix systems; they send jokes around the

world on USENET or write adventure games and research papers.

        -- E. Post

        "Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal", Datamation, 7/83

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Life is to you a dashing and bold adventure.

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Real Programmers think better when playing Adventure or Rogue.

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Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

        -- Voltaire

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"Never laugh at live dragons, Bilbo you fool!" he said to himself, and it became

a favourite saying of his later, and passed into a proverb. "You aren't nearly

through this adventure yet," he added, and that was pretty true as well.

        -- Bilbo Baggins, "The Hobbit" by J. R. R. Tolkien, Chapter XII

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Youth -- not a time of life but a state of mind... a predominance of

courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease.

        -- Robert F. Kennedy

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    Once there lived a village of creatures along the bottom of a great

crystal river.  Each creature in its own manner clung tightly to the twigs

and rocks of the river bottom, for clinging was their way of life, and

resisting the current what each had learned from birth.  But one creature

said at last, "I trust that the current knows where it is going.  I shall

let go, and let it take me where it will.  Clinging, I shall die of boredom."

    The other creatures laughed and said, "Fool!  Let go, and that current

you worship will throw you tumbled and smashed across the rocks, and you will

die quicker than boredom!"

    But the one heeded them not, and taking a breath did let go, and at

once was tumbled and smashed by the current across the rocks.  Yet, in time,

as the creature refused to cling again, the current lifted him free from the

bottom, and he was bruised and hurt no more.

    And the creatures downstream, to whom he was a stranger, cried, "See

a miracle!  A creature like ourselves, yet he flies!  See the Messiah, come

to save us all!"  And the one carried in the current said, "I am no more

Messiah than you.  The river delight to lift us free, if only we dare let go.

Our true work is this voyage, this adventure.

    But they cried the more, "Saviour!" all the while clinging to the

rocks, making legends of a Saviour.

        -- Richard Bach

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This was a Golden Age, a time of high adventure, rich living, and hard

dying... but nobody thought so.  This was a future of fortune and theft,

pillage and rapine, culture and vice... but nobody admitted it.

        -- Alfred Bester, "The Stars My Destination"

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Far back in the mists of ancient time, in the great and glorious days of the

former Galactic Empire, life was wild, rich and largely tax free.

Mighty starships plied their way between exotic suns, seeking adventure and

reward among the furthest reaches of Galactic space.  In those days, spirits

were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women

and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures

from Alpha Centauri.  And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty

deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before -- and thus

was the Empire forged.

        -- Douglas Adams, _The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy_

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7:30, Channel 5: The Bionic Dog (Action/Adventure)

    The Bionic Dog drinks too much and kicks over the National

    Redwood Forest.

7:30, Channel 8: The Bionic Dog (Action/Adventure)

    The Bionic Dog gets a hormonal short-circuit and violates the

    Mann Act with an interstate Greyhound bus.

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    Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind; it is a temper of

the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions, a predominance

of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over love of ease.

    Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years; people grow

old only by deserting their ideals.  Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up

enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.  Worry, doubt, self-distrust, fear, and despair

-- these are the long, long years that bow the head and turn the growing spirit

back to dust.

    Whether seventy or sixteen, there is in every being's heart the love

of wonder, the sweet amazement at the stars and the starlike things and

thoughts, the undaunted challenge of events, the unfailing childlike appetite

for what next, and the joy and the game of life.

    You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your

self-confidence, as old as your fear, as young as your hope, as old as your

despair.

    So long as your heart receives messages of beauty, cheer, courage,

grandeur and power from the earth, from man, and from the Infinite, so long

you are young.

        -- Samuel Ullman

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Without adventure, civilization is in full decay.

        -- Alfred North Whitehead

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Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for

counsel; and fitter for new projects than for settled business.  For the

experience of age, in things that fall within the compass of it, directeth

them; but in new things, abuseth them.  The errors of young men are the ruin

of business; but the errors of aged men amount but to this, that more might

have been done, or sooner.  Young men, in the conduct and management of

actions, embrace more than they can hold; stir more than they can quiet; fly

to the end, without consideration of the means and degrees; pursue some few

principles which they have chanced upon absurdly; care not how they innovate,

which draws unknown inconveniences; and, that which doubleth all errors, will

not acknowledge or retract them; like an unready horse, that will neither stop

nor turn.  Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little,

repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but

content themselves with a mediocrity of success.  Certainly, it is good to

compound employments of both ... because the virtues of either age may correct

the defects of both.

        -- Francis Bacon, "Essay on Youth and Age"

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"And, in truth, if you had not found me here," said the count, "it might have proved a gallant adventure which would have cost your friend dear; but now, be assured, his alarm will be the only serious consequence."

Alexandre Dumas, Pere     The Count of Monte Cristo

"My dear fellow," said Albert, turning to Franz, "here is an admirable adventure; we will fill our carriage with pistols, blunderbusses, and double-barrelled guns. Luigi Vampa comes to take us, and we take him--we bring him back to Rome, and present him to his holiness the Pope, who asks how he can repay so great a service; then we merely ask for a carriage and a pair of horses, and we see the Carnival in the carriage, and doubtless the Roman people will crown us at the Capitol, and proclaim us, like Curtius and the veiled Horatius, the preservers of their country." Whilst Albert proposed this scheme, Signor Pastrini's face assumed an expression impossible to describe.

Alexandre Dumas, Pere     The Count of Monte Cristo

Of whatever nature this dream may be, the history of this night would be incomplete if we were to omit it: it is the gloomy adventure of an ailing soul.

Victor Hugo     Les Miserables

The Terror of the Seas had brought a side of bacon, and had about worn himself out with getting it there. Finn the Red-Handed had stolen a skillet and a quantity of half-cured leaf tobacco, and had also brought a few corn-cobs to make pipes with. But none of the pirates smoked or "chewed" but himself. The Black Avenger of the Spanish Main said it would never do to start without some fire. That was a wise thought; matches were hardly known there in that day. They saw a fire smouldering upon a great raft a hundred yards above, and they went stealthily thither and helped themselves to a chunk. They made an imposing adventure of it, saying, "Hist!" every now and then, and suddenly halting with finger on lip; moving with hands on imaginary dagger-hilts; and giving orders in dismal whispers that if "the foe" stirred, to "let him have it to the hilt," because "dead men tell no tales." They knew well enough that the raftsmen were all down at the village laying in stores or having a spree, but still that was no excuse for their conducting this thing in an unpiratical way.

Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)     The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

He did not know what had become of Cosette; the whole affair of the Rue de la Chanvrerie was like a cloud in his memory; shadows that were almost indistinct, floated through his mind, Eponine, Gavroche, Mabeuf, the Thenardiers, all his friends gloomily intermingled with the smoke of the barricade; the strange passage of M. Fauchelevent through that adventure produced on him the effect of a puzzle in a tempest; he understood nothing connected with his own life, he did not know how nor by whom he had been saved, and no one of those around him knew this; all that they had been able to tell him was, that he had been brought home at night in a hackney-coach, to the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire; past, present, future were nothing more to him than the mist of a vague idea; but in that fog there was one immovable point, one clear and precise outline, something made of granite, a resolution, a will; to find Cosette once more. For him, the idea of life was not distinct from the idea of Cosette. He had decreed in his heart that he would not accept the one without the other, and he was immovably resolved to exact of any person whatever, who should desire to force him to live,--from his grandfather, from fate, from hell,--the restitution of his vanished Eden.

Victor Hugo     Les Miserables

That night the adventure at Auteuil was talked of everywhere. Albert related it to his mother; Chateau-Renaud recounted it at the Jockey Club, and Debray detailed it at length in the salons of the minister; even Beauchamp accorded twenty lines in his journal to the relation of the count's courage and gallantry, thereby celebrating him as the greatest hero of the day in the eyes of all the feminine members of the aristocracy. Vast was the crowd of visitors and inquiring friends who left their names at the residence of Madame de Villefort, with the design of renewing their visit at the right moment, of hearing from her lips all the interesting circumstances of this most romantic adventure. As for M. de Villefort, he fulfilled the predictions of Heloise to the letter,--donned his dress suit, drew on a pair of white gloves, ordered the servants to attend the carriage dressed in their full livery, and drove that same night to No. 30 in the Avenue des Champs-Elysees.

Alexandre Dumas, Pere     The Count of Monte Cristo

VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE

Arthur Conan Doyle     The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

An artist is the magician put among men to gratify — capriciously — their urge for immortality. The temples are built and brought down around him, continuously and contiguously, from Troy to the fields of Flanders. If there is any meaning in any of it, it is in what survives as art, yes even in the celebration of tyrants, yes even in the celebration of nonentities. What now of the Trojan War if it had been passed over by the artist's touch? Dust. A forgotten expedition prompted by Greek merchants looking for new markets. A minor redistribution of broken pots. But it is we who stand enriched, by a tale of heroes, of a golden apple, a wooden horse, a face that launched a thousand ships — and above all, of Ulysses, the wanderer, the most human, the most complete of all heroes — husband, father, son, lover, farmer, soldier, pacifist, politician, inventor and adventurer.

Tom Stoppard

The impression the princess made on Rostov was a very agreeable one. To remember her gave him pleasure, and when his comrades, hearing of his adventure at Bogucharovo, rallied him on having gone to look for hay and having picked up one of the wealthiest heiresses in Russia, he grew angry. It made him angry just because the idea of marrying the gentle Princess Mary, who was attractive to him and had an enormous fortune, had against his will more than once entered his head. For himself personally Nicholas could not wish for a better wife: by marrying her he would make the countess his mother happy, would be able to put his father's affairs in order, and would even--he felt it--ensure Princess Mary's happiness.

Leo Tolstoy     War and Peace

Many will call me an adventurer, and that I am... only one of a different sort: one who risks his skin to prove his truths.

Ernesto Che Guevara

So that there are instances among them of men, who, named with Scripture names--a singularly common fashion on the island--and in childhood naturally imbibing the stately dramatic thee and thou of the Quaker idiom; still, from the audacious, daring, and boundless adventure of their subsequent lives, strangely blend with these unoutgrown peculiarities, a thousand bold dashes of character, not unworthy a Scandinavian sea-king, or a poetical Pagan Roman. And when these things unite in a man of greatly superior natural force, with a globular brain and a ponderous heart; who has also by the stillness and seclusion of many long night-watches in the remotest waters, and beneath constellations never seen here at the north, been led to think untraditionally and independently; receiving all nature's sweet or savage impressions fresh from her own virgin voluntary and confiding breast, and thereby chiefly, but with some help from accidental advantages, to learn a bold and nervous lofty language--that man makes one in a whole nation's census--a mighty pageant creature, formed for noble tragedies. Nor will it at all detract from him, dramatically regarded, if either by birth or other circumstances, he have what seems a half wilful overruling morbidness at the bottom of his nature. For all men tragically great are made so through a certain morbidness. Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease. But, as yet we have not to do with such an one, but with quite another; and still a man, who, if indeed peculiar, it only results again from another phase of the Quaker, modified by individual circumstances.

Herman Melville     Moby Dick; or The Whale

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