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I think the Lewis and Clark Expedition was the greatest undertaking in American History. I think landing a man on the moon pales next to it. -- Kathryn Lasky
Now my eyes are turned from the South to the North, and I want to lead one more Expedition. This will be the last... to the North Pole. -- Ernest Shackleton
An insuperable obstacle to rapid transit in Africa is the want of carriers, and as speed was the main object of the Expedition under my command, my duty was to lessen this difficulty as much as possible. -- Henry Morton Stanley
I've always liked adventure television. Pre-'Survivor,' I did a series on cable called 'Eco-Challenge,' an adventure race with experts mainly, and here we have 'Expedition Impossible.' I like the outdoors and I like doing something fresh for television you haven't seen before. -- Mark Burnett
one of the advantages of cycling is that it automatically prevents a journey from becoming an Expedition. -- Dervla Murphy
Expedition EVEREST adds a new dimension to our storytelling in Disney's Animal Kingdom. It's a thrilling adventure themed to the folklore of the mysterious yeti. -- Joe Rohde
Small mistakes, the lack of care, little accidents, and somewhere a tipping point is passed and things go badly wrong. Expedition history brims with tragedies built out of incremental missteps. -- Alan S. Kesselheim
Also we will be carrying food and clothes for the Expedition Two crew. And as well as spare parts for the EVA that will be conducted from the station in the following months. -- Umberto Guidoni
So, for me, I make no difference whether I'm training with my shuttle crew or the Expedition crew. Of course, I think I want to take more care of the Expedition crew, because they're going to stay there for a long time. -- Philippe Perrin
Men Wanted for Dangerous Expedition: Low Wages for Long Hours of Arduous Labour under Brutal Conditions; Months of Continual Darkness and Extreme Cold; Great Risk to Life and Limb from Disease, Accidents and Other Hazards; Small Chance of Fame in Case of Success. -- Ernest Shackleton
My first trip was the Appalachian Trail, and I was able to finish it despite having no skills and no experience when I started. In comparison, I can think of only a few individuals in the world who have the potential do complete the Alaska-Yukon Expedition. -- Andrew Skurka
After the conquest of the South Pole by Amundsen who, by a narrow margin of days only, was in advance of the British Expedition under Scott, there remained but one great main object of Antarctic journeying - the crossing of the South Polar continent from sea to sea -- Ernest Shackleton
The ultimate camping trip was the Lewis and Clark expedition. -- Dave Barry
Raising funds for my fourth expedition proved to be very difficult. -- Louis Leakey
Well, we could tell them that we're here on an archeological expedition. -- Edie Adams
I was never comfortable with the risk of climbing in the Himalayas, or the amount of time in idleness that is involved in the Everest expedition. -- Steve Fossett
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As a rule, anything that is pretty you avoid when on an expedition in the polar extremes. Normally anything other than white means a hazard such as a crevasse. -- Ranulph Fiennes
What you do on a dinosaur expedition is you hike and look at the ground. You find bones sticking out of the dirt and, once you see something, you dig. -- Nathan Myhrvold
I am happy now, to recall that I was not only his son but his companion, and whenever there was a hunting expedition or any other pleasure, I was always with him. -- John Philip Sousa
The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure. -- George Washington
Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination. -- Janet Frame
A review of summit day photographs will show that I was clothed in the latest, highest quality, high altitude gear, comparable, if not better, than that worn by the other members of our expedition. -- Anatoli Boukreev
Adventure books are my personal favorites. 'The Endurance,' a story about Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctica expedition, or 'Into Thin Air,' Jon Krakauer's personal account of the 1996 disaster on Mt Everest, are two notables. -- Dean Karnazes
As soon as the news of the Cabot voyages reached the King of Portugal he arranged to send an expedition of discovery to the far north-west, perhaps to find a northern sea route to Eastern Asia. -- Harry Johnston
There must be a punitive expedition against the Jews in Russia, a punitive expedition which will expect: death sentence and execution. Then the world will see the end of the Jews is also the end of Bolshevism. -- Julius Streicher
They have just succeeded in raising the two thousand pounds here, by subscription, that was wanted towards an exploration fund, for fitting out an expedition, that will probably start for the interior of our continent next March. -- William John Wills
When it began to grow dark, the Rat, with an air of excitement and mystery, summoned them back into the parlour, stood each of them up alongside of his little heap, and proceeded to dress them up for the coming expedition. -- Kenneth Grahame
A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker. -- Anne Bancroft
It's no wonder that new ventures such as The Daily look first to Gawker Media when staffing up. We should not wait for a poaching expedition to pay someone what they deserve. I apologize if that has been the case and will do better in 2012. -- Nick Denton
No one will pay you for planning an expedition at first: you have to work in pubs at weekends so you can pay the gas bills. I joined the Territorial Army, which paid me when I turned up to drill nights, and so did my wife. -- Ranulph Fiennes
Good planning is important. I've also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you're in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you're depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension. -- Edmund Hillary
When I read about how 200 people died on a polar expedition, I wonder why they didn't get to know the Inuit people who were around and presumably know something about surviving in the Arctic after living there for thousands of years. Talking to people is a survival mechanism. -- Tim Cahill
So many people wanted an adventure. It was really more about finding the cast that I wanted for 'Expedition Impossible,' so it had good diversity, and people could really say, 'Oh, there's the firefighters, there's the team of cops, there's the grandpa' - so that you can really relate with them. -- Mark Burnett
The real work of an expedition begins when you return. -- Louise Boyd
Consider what a romantic expedition you are on; take notes. -- Anne Boyd
Adventures happen only to those incapable of planning an expedition. -- Richard Evans Schultes
The ultimate camping trip was the Lewis and Clark expedition -- Dave Barry
With sufficient planning, you can almost eliminate adventure from an expedition. -- Roald Amundsen
[Apollo 7 was] an expedition of the mind, not of the heart. -- Earl Warren
The most important thing about expedition food is that there is some -- Eric Shipton
The first rule of an expedition is that everyone should stick together. -- Tahir Shah
Previous experience had taught me that any expedition marches on its stomach. -- Tahir Shah
Zeal without knowledge is like expedition to a man in the dark. -- John Newton
I hope I'm still alive to see an expedition set off for Mars. -- James Gunn
It is sweet to think I was a companion in an expedition that never ends -- Czeslaw Milosz
On a harsh expedition, there's no space for anyone who does not intend to finish. -- Tahir Shah
Quotation mistakes, inadvertency, expedition, and human lapses, may make not only moles but warts in learned authors... -- Thomas Browne
The time to prepare for your next expedition is when you have just returned from a successful trip. -- Robert Peary
Mounting an expedition to actualize a Compassionate Commonwealth of all peoples...is the great spiritual challenge of our time. -- Sam Keen
Any man who has ever led an army, an expedition, or a group of Boy Scouts has sadism in his bones. -- Tahir Shah
Without harmony in the State, no military expedition can be undertaken; without harmony in the army, no battle array can be formed. -- Sun Tzu
What have I done thins time?" he paused to ask before continuing with his oral expedition about her body: her husband, the intrepid explorer. -- Gail Carriger
I hope that you, too, will choose to have a journey instead of just a life. Actually, I hope it's a full on expedition. -- Kelly Cutrone
And from this marvellous pan-Hellenic expedition, triumphant, brilliant in every way, celebrated on all sides, glorified incomparable, we emerged: the great new Hellenic world. -- C.P. Cavafy
If hot food is they key to maintaining an expedition's stamina, then low grade gut-rot alcohol is the key to sustaining its sense of pleasure. -- Tahir Shah
I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to complete the goal of the expedition. -- Katharine Hepburn
It is the going out from oneself that is love and not the accident of its return. It is the expedition, whether it fail or succeed. -- H. G. Wells
As our expedition to New York seems likely to be attended with a very fatal Consequence, and ourselves haply censured for undertaking it without assurance of success. -- Lewis Hallam
If the expedition had failed, which it might well have done with all hope centered in just one plane, I should still be trying to pay back my obligations. -- Richard E. Byrd
The key virtue of orbital assembly is that it eliminates the tight connection between the size of the expedition and the size of the rockets used to launch it. -- Henry Spencer
James's expedition to Scotland is wholly imaginary, though there appears to have been space for it during Henry's progress to the North to pay his devotions at Beverley Minster. -- Charlotte Mary Yonge
Our first responsibility as a leader is to create an attractive dream, to proclaim a destination, communicating it in detail to others who might be interested in joining our expedition. -- Susan Collins
The expedition of Messrs. Lewis & Clarke for exploring the river Missouri, & the best communication from that to the Pacific ocean, has had all the success which could have been expected. -- Thomas Jefferson
The ability to tell a good route from a terrible one is a valuable skill when leading an expedition. Unfortunately for us all, it was a skill I did not possess. -- Tahir Shah
Therefore bivouac we On this great, blond highway, unimpeded by Veiled scruples, worn conundrums. Morning is Impermanent. Grab sex things, swing up Over the horizon like a boy On a fishing expedition. -- John Ashbery
It always rains on the unloved-wet dreams-a fishing expedition-she kisses wyverns (the disneyland analogy)-dinner etiquette and chocolate lovers-desire swears by the first circle-"things are changing"-what can possibly go wrong? -- Neil Gaiman
The mountain is nothing without people on it. Often you part expedition exasperated, but a year or two later you go back with the same partners knowing there's potential in this human relationship. -- Greg Child
One of the great things about being a director as a life choice is that it can never be mastered. Every story is its own kind of expedition, with its own set of challenges. -- Ron Howard
Himmler wants to send an expedition to Tibet to look for ancient manuscripts on the Aryans. The man is like a little schoolgirl. What culture is there in an old jug, I ask you? -- Adolf Hitler
We were now back at Smith Landing, and fired with a desire to make another Buffalo expedition on which we should have ampler time and cover more than a mere corner of the range. -- Ernest Thompson Seton
Shall I pass by and leave you lying there because of the expedition you led against Greece, or shall I set you up again because of your magnanimity and your virtues in other respects? -- Alexander the Great

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