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“It's about stepping up on the big stage. The athlete who can do that is goig to do well.”
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“I don't think it negates your skills as a parent if you're homosexual.”
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“Our true acquisitions lie only in our charities - we gain only as we give.”
Source : William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.19
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“When you’ve practiced that so long that you forget you’re practising, you work on making it smooooooth. You won’t have to worry about the last one – you get those three, and you’ll be fast.”
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“A review of summit day photographs will show that I was clothed in the latest, highest quality, high altitude gear, comparable, if not better, than that worn by the other members of our expedition.”
Source : Anatoli Boukreev, G. Weston DeWalt (2015). “The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest”, p.260, St. Martin's Griffin
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“[H]appy or miserable, life is the only blessing which man possesses[.”
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“Perhaps I’m not a nice person, but no one’s perfect.”
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“He knows bad days. Bad days take him completely by surprise. They make him not trust the good days because it's likely something is lurking twenty-four hours away.”
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“Beautiful. True. Words to remind yourself, words to live by.”
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“Everyone else had the look of tired patience people always got when listening to a sermon, no matter what the century.”
Source : Connie Willis (2011). “The Doomsday Book”, p.326, Spectra
