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“To put yourself into a situation where a mistake cannot necessarily be recouped, where the life you lose may be your own, clears the head wonderfully. It puts domestic problems back into proportion and adds an element of seriousness to your drab, routine life. Perhaps this is one reason why climbing has become increasingly hard as society has become increasingly, disproportionately, coddling.”
Source : "Our enduring desire to court deadly risk" by Peter Beaumont, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2012. 
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“Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up.”
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“Disobey. Defy. Take your own time. Fly.”
Source : Song: Seize The Vivid Sky
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“C'est pas de l'alpinisme, ça, c'est la guerre.”
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“I don't play the tuba.”
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“The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music.”
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“I never felt like that in my life. I didn't know human beings played these instruments. I heard them in Chicago and Louisville and St. Louis all my life, you know? But I didn't know human beings played them, you know? So the next day I went to Coontz Junior High School and I started on sousaphone, tuba, B-flat baritone, E-flat alto, French horn, trombone.”
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“I don't want somebody who writes like me [in my writing staff]. Because I can write like me. I know what I'm capable of and what my limitations are. If you're going to build an orchestra, you don't want all tubas - you want a violin and you want a cello and you want a drum set.”
Source : Source: www.avclub.com
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“The unfair composition of the Security Council is largely acknowledged. The principal defects are the anachronistic privileges of the five permanent members of the Council and the Council's insufficient representativeness.”
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“It's a police mantra that all members of the public are guilty of something, but some members of the public are more guilty than others.”
Source : Ben Aaronovitch (2013). “Broken Homes”, p.8, Hachette UK
