Steve Roper quotes
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“Climbers seem to forget that we said in our introduction that there were simply '50 classic routes', not 'the 50 classics'. We chose 50 from a list of about 120. Only a torturer will ever pry loose from our lips the names of those other 70 classics.”
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“I strode among giants, friends tell me now, though at the time I felt more like a misfit associating with oddballs.”
-- Steve Roper
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“Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.”
Source : New Yorker, 14 May 1960
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“I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.”
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“True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.”
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Source : Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.181, Macmillan
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