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1. "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" ~ David Grann
2. "...much of the discovery of the world was based on failure rather than on success--on tactical errors and pipe dreams." ~ David Grann
3. "You know, I had a lot of romantic notions about the jungle and this kind of finished that" ~ David Grann
4. "Years later, another member [of the Royal Geographical Society] conceded, "Explorers are not, perhaps, the most promising people with whom to build a society. Indeed, some might say that explorers become explorers precisely because they have a streak of unsociability and a need to remove themselves at regular intervals as far as possible from their fellow men." ~ David Grann
5. "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." ~ David Grann
6. "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." ~ David Grann
7. "Fawcett could never take the final leap of a modern anthropologist and accept that complex civilizations were capable of springing up independently of each other." ~ David Grann
8. "Exploration...no longer seemed aimed at some outward discovery; rather, it was directed inward..." ~ David Grann
9. "Fawcett agreed that El Dorado, with its plethora of gold, was an "exaggerated romance," but he was not ready to dismiss the chronicles altogether" ~ David Grann
10. "Instead, the terrain looked like Nebraska—perpetual plains that faded into the horizon. When I asked Taukane where the forest was, he said, simply, "Gone." ~ David Grann
11. "Starvation sounds almost unbelievable in forest country, and yet it is only too likely to happen. - Percy Harrison Fawcett" ~ David Grann

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When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue."
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