Douglas Mawson quotes
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“We had discovered an accursed country. We had found the Home of the Blizzard.”
-- Douglas MawsonSource : Douglas Mawson (2010). “The Home of the Blizzard: An Australian Hero's Classic Tale of Antarctic Discovery and Adventure”, p.88, Wakefield Press
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“In no department can a leader spend time more profitably than in the selection of the men who are to accomplish the work.”
-- Douglas MawsonSource : Douglas Mawson (2010). “The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914”, p.12, Lulu.com
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“It's dead easy to die; it's the keeping on living that's hard.”
-- Douglas MawsonSource : Douglas Mawson (2010). “The Home of the Blizzard: An Australian Hero's Classic Tale of Antarctic Discovery and Adventure”, p.192, Wakefield Press
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“Dangling in space I realised I could always slip out of the harness. I looked forward to the peace of the great release.”
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