David Grann Quotes

#1. Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett, and his name was known throughout the world.

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#2. (Brazilians called the bees "eye lickers.")

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#3. It was the greatest loss of life in the history of the British military, and many in the West began to portray the "savage" as European rather than as some native in the jungle.

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#4. History is a merciless judge. It lays bare our tragic blunders and foolish missteps and exposes our most intimate secrets, wielding the power of hindsight like an arrogant detective who seems to know the end of the mystery from the outset.

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#5. Much of the discovery of the world was based on failure rather than on success
on tactical errors and pipe dreams.

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#6. Exploration ... no longer seemed aimed at some outward discovery; rather, it was directed inward ...

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#7. An Indian Affairs agent said, 'The question will suggest itself, which of these people are the savages?

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#8. Fawcett once described fear as the 'motive power of all evil' which had 'excluded humanity from the Garden of Eden.

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#9. Starvation sounds almost unbelievable in forest country, and yet it is only too likely to happen. - Percy Harrison Fawcett

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#10. Fawcett, quoting a companion, wrote that cannibalism at least provides a reasonable motive for killing a man, which is more than you can say for civilized warfare.

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#11. Many Osage, unlike other wealthy Americans, could not spend their money as they pleased because of the federally imposed system of financial guardians.

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#12. During Xtha-cka Zhi-ga The-the, the Killer of Flowers Moon. I will wade across the river of the blackfish, the otter, the beaver. I will climb the bank where the willow never dies.

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#13. Does God think that, because it is raining, I am not going to destroy the world? - Lope de Aguirre after going mad in the Amazon

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#14. Many accidents happen to white people because they don't believe their dreams.

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#15. Stores gone, post office gone, train gone, school gone, oil gone, boys and girls gone - only thing not gone is graveyard and it git bigger.

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#16. Even today, the Brazilian government estimates that there are more than sixty Indian tribes that have never been contacted by outsiders.

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#17. Though it took enormous courage and virtue to risk your life in order to protect society, such selflessness also contained, at least from the vantage point of your loved ones, a hint of cruelty.

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#18. Loneliness is not intolerable when enthusiasm for a quest fills the mind.

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#19. They marched like madmen from place to place, until overcome by exhaustion and lack of strength they could no longer move from one side to the other, and they remained there, wherever this sad siren voice had summoned them, self-important, and dead.

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#20. I am getting older and am, I daresay, impatient of lost years and months," Fawcett complained to Keltie in early 1918. Later

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#21. You know, I had a lot of romantic notions about the jungle and this kind of finished that

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#22. Washington Bridge. The components were then lowered into the Thirtieth Street hole by a special crane that could withstand

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#23. White gave his men advice in case their cover was blown: "Keep your balance, avoid any rough stuff if possible." Making it clear that they should carry weapons, he added, "But if you have to fight to survive, do a good job.

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