“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.”
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“Every war is different. Every war is the same.”
― Jarhead : A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles
― Jarhead : A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles
“If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.”
― Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
― Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
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“If while alive you hurt or disappoint people you love, there's no use continuing such behavior when you're dead.”
― Jarhead: a Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles
― Jarhead: a Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles
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