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slabbo
Trad climber
colo south
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Topic Author's Original Post - Mar 7, 2017 - 10:47am PT
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"Everybody has a plan, until they get punched in the mouth"-
Mike Tyson
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Larry Nelson
Social climber
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"All my life I wanted to be someone. Now I realize I should have been more specific."
Lily Tomlin
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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"Fail to plan, plan to fail."
A Bridwell dictum, I think he likely borrowed the words from some bard to pass along to some other Bards.
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Gunkie
Trad climber
Valles Marineris
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From the movie Animal House
"Christ. Seven years of college down the drain. Might as well join the f*#king Peace Corps." -- Bluto
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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it's only funny if you know kinsley as a major lib/prog ...
straight outta wiki:
In 2002 Kinsley revealed that he had Parkinson's disease,[11] and on July 12, 2006, he underwent deep brain stimulation, a type of surgery designed to reduce its symptoms. According to a humorous postscript to his Time column anticipating the surgery, the operation went well; Kinsley's first words out of the operating room were "Well, of course, when you cut taxes, government revenues go up. Why couldn't I see that before?
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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"I am not Beethoven."
Jerry Garcia
"Politics is the entertainment branch of the Military Industrial Complex."
Frank Zappa
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labrat
Trad climber
Erik O. Auburn, CA
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"I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really. Get busy living or get busy dying."
Andy
The Shawshank Redemption
"A man's GOT to know his limitations."
Harry
Magnum Force
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Saugy
Mountain climber
BC
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Something I heard on the radio recently..
"Death inspires me like a dog inspires a rabbit"
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slabbo
Trad climber
colo south
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 8, 2017 - 06:17am PT
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El Cap Meadow, early '80's-
"What's with these f&%kin Falcons man ? There F&$kin' up all the routes, you can't even do P.O, anymore"
John Mallery
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
Jerry Garcia
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jamatt
Social climber
Asheville, NC
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"When the shadow of the sash appeared in the curtains it was between seven and eight o'clock and then I was in time again, hearing the watch. It was Grandfather’s and when Father gave it to me he said I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire; it’s rather excrutiatingly apt that you will use it to gain the reducto absurdum of all human experience which can fit your individual needs no better than it fitted his or his father’s. I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools."
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seano
Mountain climber
none
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We were hoping for the best, but it turned out the way it always does. -- Victor Chernomyrdin
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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What killed Jerry at an early age was his less than healthy life style. He added and abetted what killed him.
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plund
Social climber
OD, MN
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"I f#@king swear too much!" My buddy Matt, BITD
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ground_up
Trad climber
mt. hood /baja
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" You're not half the man your mother was " ?
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Yes Jim, all addicts aid and abet what kills them. So do climbers. His death was still authentic, and that was the point of the quote.
It doesn't make him less intellectual, or culturally significant.
The thread is about quotes, not judgement, sheesh.
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slabbo
Trad climber
colo south
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 8, 2017 - 03:10pm PT
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Like Hendrix--:it's not about the lines, it's what's between them"
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Dry tooling is what the guys in High School with no girlfriends did.
Jim Donini
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ecdh
climber
the east
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"You wont find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains" - hunter s thompson.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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"Everyone you ever meet will know something you don't."--Bill Nye
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