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No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.
-- Edmund Hillary

Source : "We knocked the bastard off" by David Fickling, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2003.

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Why climb Mount Everest? Because it's there.
-- George Leigh Mallory

Source : Quoted in N.Y. Times, 18 Mar. 1923

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Because it is there [famous explanation for wanting to climb Mount Everest].
-- George Leigh Mallory

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“Labor with the heart, when the heart is pure and true, is the noblest labor.”
“Among the humble and great alike, those who achieve success do so not because fate and circumstance are especially kind to them. Often the reverse is true. They succeed because they do not whine over their fate but take whatever has been given to them and go on to make the most of their best.”

Source : "Say Yes to Life: A Book of Thoughts for Better Living".
“If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.”
“The Postal Service needs tools to modernize and compete. That is why today I am a cosponsor of H.R. 22, the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act.”
“I looked for perfection, and I found something better.”
“Everything is done out of respect, whether it's a cheer or a boo.”
“A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.”

Source : Speech, Springfield, Ill., 4 July 1903 See Theodore Roosevelt 12
“I genuinely enjoy talking one-to-one. I have no shyness about that.”
“Can a woman entertain a man and a pet at the same time? I say unto thee, one of the twain shall suffer jealousy.”
“To conform within rational limits to a given style is no more servile than to pay one's taxes or to write according to the rule of grammar.”