James Ramsey Ullman quotes
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“To know a little less and to understand a little more: that, it seems to me, is our greatest need.”
-- James Ramsey UllmanSource : James Ramsey Ullman (1945). “The White Tower”
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“We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep primal impulses that motivate us.”
-- James Ramsey UllmanSource : James Ramsey Ullman (1951). “River of the Sun”
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“It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is never more a man than when he is striving for what is beyond his grasp.”
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“Challenge is the core and the mainspring of all human activity. If there's an ocean, we cross it; if there's a disease, we cure it; if there's a wrong, we right it; if there's a record, we break it; and finally, if there's a mountain, we climb it.”
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“It was not a mere man he was holding, but a giant; or a block of granite. The pull was unendurable. The pain unendurable.”
-- James Ramsey UllmanSource : James Ramsey Ullman (1988). “Banner in the sky”
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“The climbing of earths heights, in itself, means little. That men and women want and try to climb them means everything. For it is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that we are never so much human as when we are striving for what is beyond our grasp, and that there is no battle worth the winning save that against our own ignorance and fear.”
-- James Ramsey Ullman
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“The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.”
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Source : A. J. Jacobs (2011). “A.J. Jacobs Omnibus: The Know-It-All, The Year of Living Biblically, My Life as an Experiment”, p.937, Simon and Schuster
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Source : "The Heart of Things".
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