#advent

One of the professors told me last week that he feels bad teaching with the way the economy is now. ‘What’s the point?’ he said. ‘Kids aren’t getting jobs.’ You never hear faculty talk that way. He did. ↗

— Daniel Amory

#adventure #chicago #city #downtown #dream

The poet is a madman lost in adventure. ↗

— Paul Verlaine

#lost #madman #poet

Well, it's an adventure story, and a Bildungsroman, of course, but there was also the intention to describe a culture that had been seen in rather narrow terms. ↗

— John M. Ford

#also #been #course #culture #describe

The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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Without adventure civilization is in full decay. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#civilization #decay #full #without

We have built our State on the freedom of personal adventure. ↗

— John Grierson

#built #freedom #our #personal #state

There's a call to adventure. It's something in the inner psyche of humanity, particularly males. ↗

— Gary Gygax

#call #humanity #inner #males #particularly

Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new. ↗