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Advice to explorers everywhere: if you would like to recieve due credit for your discoveries, keep a detailed account of your journeys as Columbus did. On Septemeber 28, 1492, after four weeks at sea, he writes: Dear diary.. I means journal. Yes, dear journal. That's what I meant to say. Whew. Anyway, we have yet to discover America, and the crew has become increasingly rebellious. I have decided to turn back if we have not spotted it by Columbus Day. Will write again later if not killed by crew. P.S. Last night's buffet was fabulous, the ice sculptures magnificent.Cuthbert Soup
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I have seen travel plans happen only when they were made overnight.Sanhita Baruah
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Wherever you are, you have to be joyfully alive.Lailah Gifty Akita
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He penned a letter to the Company in London, a letter whose unfailing spirit would become legendary among the sailors of the East India Company. 'I cannot tell where you should looke for me.' he wrote, 'because I live at the devotion of the winds and seas.' (Written by/about Captain James Lancaster, on the ship Red Dragon, during a terrible storm, 1603)Giles Milton
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All children are born rebels and explorers until they're taught to sit still and obey.Marty Rubin
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We write, not because we claim to know more than others, but perhaps because we want to know more than others. Writers are explorersBangambiki Habyarimana
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God always brings someone into your life that has traveled the same path and knows the rocks you climbed to get to the end of the trail.Shannon L. Alder
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Every experience has a pattern and sometimes it teaches us through the spirit of patience captured, that there are no coincidences in life.Deejay Kapil
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Humboldt's early biographer, F.A. Schwarzenberg, subtitled his life of Humboldt What May Be Accomplished in a Lifetime. He summarised the areas of his subject's extraordinary curiosity as follows: '1) The knowledge of the Earth and its inhabitants. 2) The discovery of the higher laws of nature, which govern the universe, men, animals, plants, minerals. 3) The discovery of new forms of life. 4) The discovery of territories hitherto but imperfectly known, and their various productions. 5)The acquaintance with new species of the human race--- their manners, their language and the historical traces of their culture.' What may be accomplished in a lifetime---and seldom or never is. .Alain De Botton
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Faxian and Xuanzang might have been the first Chinese to travel to India, but sometimes it felt like I was the first.Hong Mei
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When De Long arrived in California with Emma that May, he went straight down to the yard and feasted his eyes upon his new ship. He was smitten by the transformation that had taken place during his absence. "I am perfectly satisfied with her, " he wrote. "She is everything I want.Hampton Sides
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Explorers like to pretend that they are a select breed of people with iron nerve and an ability to endure terrible hardship.Tahir Shah