Robert Peary quotes
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“Many times I have thanked God for a bite of raw dog.”
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“Nothing easier. One step beyond the pole, you see, and the north wind becomes a south one.”
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“The time to prepare for your next expedition is when you have just returned from a successful trip.”
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“People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness.”
Source : "The Prince of Reason". Interview with Robert Epstein, www.psychologytoday.com. June 9, 2016.
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Source : Alice Miller (1981). “The drama of the gifted child”, Basic Books (AZ)
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Source : Andrew Solomon (2014). “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression”, p.29, Simon and Schuster
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“The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.”
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“You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.”
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“War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.”
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“The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.”
Source : "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, 1957.
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