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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Topic Author's Original Post - Oct 21, 2009 - 11:48pm PT
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I often come across quotes that really strike me - and I like to share them.
So here's one I came across today
"Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth". Ludwig Borne
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cragnshag
Social climber
san joser
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Oct 21, 2009 - 11:57pm PT
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"I may live poorly, but at least I don't have to work to do it."
-unemployed guy in the movie Slacker
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hooblie
climber
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Oct 22, 2009 - 12:19am PT
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^^^^on a similar note, i have lived in san francisco, anchorage, and on maui, three places that are known to be expensive.
i've been asked how did i afford the cost of living? my pat answer; "hey, the cost of doing without is the same wherever you go"
seen on the back of a hippie'ed up school bus..."follow me to your place"
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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Oct 22, 2009 - 12:30am PT
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this one struck me recently...
...emotions whipsawed, feeling like approaching a harlot,
lust and angst drawing you along... -Tom Higgins
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Srbphoto
Trad climber
Kennewick wa
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Oct 22, 2009 - 12:32am PT
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"It is curious--curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare." Mark Twain
"It's hard to be subtle with a chainsaw." photography student to his teacher.
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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Oct 22, 2009 - 12:37am PT
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Speaking of Mark Twain,
"A cynic is someone who sees things the way they really are."
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 22, 2009 - 12:39am PT
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two cheers for Twain; those are both keepers.
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Barbarian
Trad climber
slowly dying in the OC
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Oct 22, 2009 - 01:27am PT
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"Trust luck, borrow trouble, and never ask the price!'
Ian Skies Walker
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nature
climber
Tucson, AZ
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Oct 22, 2009 - 01:54am PT
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around '91 we were getting our asses handed to us on the Sherman Glacier route on Rainer. Stuck in a tent for two days in a horrendous storm.
Two dudes were stuck on the summit in the same storm. The weather cleared briefly and dudes were able to descend. My buddy ran into them in base camp ( I was still ascending with another team).
One dude offered to Dave "You only live once and if you die young, well, that sucks".
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Ray Olson
Trad climber
Imperial Beach, California
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Oct 22, 2009 - 03:31am PT
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"The creator of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandelous:
novelty disturbs and repels"
Simone de Beauvoir
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Reilly
Mountain climber
Monrovia, CA
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Oct 22, 2009 - 04:17am PT
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"I never could explain why
I love anybody or anything"
Walt Whitman
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Banquo
Trad climber
Morgan Hill, CA
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Oct 22, 2009 - 10:23am PT
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"If climbers didn't die, climbing would."
John Barry
"An adventure is interesting enough in retrospect, especially to the person that didn't have it; at the time it happens it usually constitutes an exceedingly disagreeable experience."
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
"Three constitutes a large expedition, a party of one may be considered a small expedition."
Dr. Humphreys
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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Oct 22, 2009 - 10:39am PT
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"I used to care but, things have changed"
Bob Dylan
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Oct 22, 2009 - 10:57am PT
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(When I asked him to be careful downclimbing unanchored)
"I've lived a long and happy life."
Mike Baca, Oct. 17, 2009
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ydpl8s
Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
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Oct 22, 2009 - 10:57am PT
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"Now wouldn't it be a real drag if we were all the same!" - Savoy Brown
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JNB
Big Wall climber
Northridge
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Oct 22, 2009 - 11:18am PT
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"Its a good day to Die."
Klingon Proverb
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nutstory
climber
Ajaccio, Corsica, France.
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Oct 22, 2009 - 11:20am PT
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"Qui vit sans folie n’est pas aussi sage qu’il croit."
"He who lives without madness is not as wise as he believes."
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hooblie
climber
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Oct 22, 2009 - 11:29am PT
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"I used to care but, things have changed"
Bob Dylan ^^^^thankyou norton, i'll take it, he can spare it
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ydpl8s
Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
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Oct 22, 2009 - 11:57am PT
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"It is a good day to die"
I first heard that quote in the movie Little Big Man with Dustin Hoffman. The line is said several times by the Chief Dan George character Old Lodge Skins. He had tons of great lines in that movie "That Buffalo Wallow woman, she sleeps with horses"
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Karen
Trad climber
So Cal urban sprawl Hell
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Oct 22, 2009 - 01:15pm PT
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"The unexamined life is not worth living" Socrates
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brotherbbock
Trad climber
Alta Loma, CA
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Oct 22, 2009 - 01:50pm PT
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"The world is like a book, and those that never leave home read but one page."
-St. Augustine
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BrianH
Trad climber
santa fe
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Oct 22, 2009 - 01:57pm PT
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"Everyone seems normal, until you get to know them."
Some damm bumper sticker on a fridge somewhere.
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BillO
Boulder climber
Whittier, CA
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Oct 22, 2009 - 04:07pm PT
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“The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.” -- Carlos Castaneda
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Dolomite
climber
Anchorage
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Oct 22, 2009 - 04:20pm PT
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"Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises?"--Thoreau
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divad
Trad climber
wmass
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Oct 22, 2009 - 04:25pm PT
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f*ck you russ, i'm sick of your self-righteous sh*t, this is entertaining
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Oct 22, 2009 - 05:57pm PT
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"This ain't T'juana." Dick Cilley
"When you're the world's most famous toproper, you take your life in your hands every day." ibid
"buy the gas and I'll drive you there." (sung to the tune of ,"Somewhere, a place for us." ibid
"you're so full of oit your eyes are brown." My dad, to me when i was about 14.
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kev
climber
A pile of dirt.
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Oct 22, 2009 - 06:04pm PT
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"It only takes a single as#@&%e to stink up a whole room" kev
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Danielle Winters
Trad climber
Alaska
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Oct 22, 2009 - 06:10pm PT
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As we grow old we become smaller and smaller, and our power seeps back in to the earth whence it arose until there is nothing left, and then the wind blows us away"
Old Apache indian
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Oct 22, 2009 - 06:12pm PT
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Are you talking about Pate's woody?
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Ghoulwe
Trad climber
Spokane, WA
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Oct 22, 2009 - 06:17pm PT
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A few of my favorites:
You only live once, but if you work it right, once is enough. - Joe E. Lewis
We're hopelessly lost but we're making good time. - Yogi Berra
You have two choices, start living or start dying. – Clint Eastwood (Outlaw Josey Wales)
Kinky is using a feather. Perverted is using the whole chicken…
 seen on a bumper sticker
Eric
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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Oct 22, 2009 - 06:19pm PT
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"It's gettin' re-goddamned-diculous." - John Wayne
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altieboo
Boulder climber
Livermore, Ca
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Oct 22, 2009 - 06:27pm PT
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Haven't actually read or heard this from the "author" but it has been passed down to me.
"Sport climbing is a lot like sport f*#king. It's a lot of fun and requires no commitment." -Jim Bridwell
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JNB
Big Wall climber
Northridge
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Oct 22, 2009 - 06:42pm PT
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"God Protects the Innocent, and Fortune favors the Bold"
Charles Cole
My mantra as I solo big wall.
Juan
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Ed Bannister
Mountain climber
Riverside, CA
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Oct 22, 2009 - 06:49pm PT
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from Film:
"Marvelous" Clint Eastwood, Dirty Harry
"Morons, I've got morons on my team." Struther Martin, Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid
from Climbers?
"Whaddayawant" Mike Hoover
"Come ski" Bev Johnson
"well you know, I don't climb any more" Tony Yaniro
"does it hurt?" Brett Maurer
"this guy is an idiot" Norman Kingsley
"and then, right below the summit, he switched cracks!" Tom Frost
"5.9" Mike Waugh
"we were climbing, it felt good, I didn't need any pro" Phil Warrender
"I've got a chair and two bottles of water under that rock." Randy Leavitt
"Passion is a two edged sword" David Williams (Willie)
"I eat a lot of Bananas and Chicken" Rich Grigsby
"we're gunna die" Jeff Bosson
"I know what I want when I see it" Penny Ellis
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Redwreck
Social climber
Echo Parque, Los Angeles, CA
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Oct 22, 2009 - 06:50pm PT
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Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the living entrails of the last priest.
-Denis Diderot
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Rusty Punch
climber
Cloverland, CA
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Oct 22, 2009 - 07:33pm PT
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"I wish you would take up a pasttime that dosn't require a helmet" - Clover's Mom
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Oct 22, 2009 - 08:02pm PT
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"I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it." -- Grouch Marx
" " -- Harpo Marx
"Mustard's no good without roast beef." -- Chico Marx
Zeppo has no quotes.
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labrat
Trad climber
Nevada City, CA
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Oct 22, 2009 - 09:20pm PT
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If we could just find out who's in charge, we could kill him. George Carlin
Religion is just mind control. GC
Sometimes fast and light turns out to be frozen and f**ked. ??
Sometimes fear is the appropriate response. 9
The best climber is the one having the most fun. Alex Lowe
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Banquo
Trad climber
Morgan Hill, CA
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Oct 22, 2009 - 10:14pm PT
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"They that can give up essential
liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Benjamin Franklin
"If you want total security,
go to prison. There you're fed, clothed,
given medical care and so on.
The only thing lacking is freedom."
Dwight Eisenhower
"A little learning is a dangerous thing"
Alexander Pope.
"Any fool can spend money."
George A.
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TYeary
Social climber
State of decay
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Oct 22, 2009 - 10:33pm PT
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"Aye, you may be going up mate, but a lot higher than you think".
Whillians, while retreating, to two Japanese climbers continuing up into the storm, Eiger North Face route.
Tony
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dogtown
Trad climber
JackAssVille, Wyoming
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Oct 22, 2009 - 10:55pm PT
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Your Not axially 007. Well your not Thomas Jefferson. Ether ?
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dogtown
Trad climber
JackAssVille, Wyoming
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Oct 22, 2009 - 11:52pm PT
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Name that tune?
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Decko
Trad climber
Colorado
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Oct 22, 2009 - 11:58pm PT
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"I came to get high and burn sh#t down"
Sticker on the wall at the Southern Sun in Boulder......
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couchmaster
climber
pdx
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Oct 23, 2009 - 12:04am PT
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...my small benediction: let us be most humbled, thankful and awestruck at the prize of consciousness, the sunny days on what we call rock and mountains with others we call friends, the noble globe itself only a dot in the vast swirl of matter and time, in the great physics of it all Frank pondered, the same which pounds and baffles each of us under a clear night sky. And there, looking up, perhaps I am not alone making a quiet vow to hold more tightly to good friendship and love before sleeping Frank’s sleep.
Tom Higgins"
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Captain...or Skully
Social climber
Idaho, also. Sorta, kinda mostly, Yeah.
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Oct 23, 2009 - 12:12am PT
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"Consumate "V's"....Consumate!
Jeez, guy wouldn't know Majesty if it came up & bit him"......StrongBad
He's got some skills of an artist.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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Oct 23, 2009 - 01:27am PT
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nice Skully!
"Here I go again with the email. Hope that its from a female..."
-Strongbad
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Oct 23, 2009 - 01:38am PT
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"Don't worry Hinterstoisser, we can get back!"
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R.B.
Trad climber
AZ-WA
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Oct 23, 2009 - 01:54am PT
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In regards to an interview conducted in 1985 in Camp 4 of Yosemite Valley ... a writer for playboy magazine, Craig Vetter who was climbing with Galen Rowell wanted to hear 'my' story about how I fractured my heal taking a 25' whipper on the Catchy Corner, 5.11a of the Cookie Cliff of Yosemite, my (favorite) quote of which is published in Playboy Magazine, around October '86, in an article titled "Climbers" an excerpt is as follows (page 184, middle top paragraph):
At a camfire the night before, a climber, from Flagstaff had talked to me about just that thing (about falling). His name was RB and he'd been climbing for 17 years, since he was four. Just the year before, he'd taken a fall that had flipped him over backward and smashed his heel bone into five pieces. He said he could have saved the plunge if he'd just grabbed the rope, which he didn't, because HIS CLIMBER'S CODE TOLD HIM NOT TO. He said it wasn't a total loss, though. It had left an unnaturally large bump on his heel , which made his (three-striper feerays) fit perfectly (thereafter).
"And I learned something from that climb," he told me. "I LEARNED TO NEVER LET ETHICS HURT YOU."
So this is my favorite (or is that famous???) quote. And so to translate to 2009 lingo -- Climb and enjoy, but remember gravity doesn't care who YOU ARE! Be safe out there ... RB
BTW - This is a cool article about climbing in Yos in the early '80's, with Bachar, Kauk, etc.
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sac
Trad climber
spuzzum
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Oct 23, 2009 - 02:11am PT
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Jim Baldwin (Perhaps E. Cooper), on describing their ascent of "The Grand Wall" Squamish.
" We didn't know what to expect... but that was to be expected"
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susu
Trad climber
East Bay, CA
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Oct 23, 2009 - 02:54am PT
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"The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice" Clint Eastwood
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." -Dr. Seuss
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Oct 23, 2009 - 09:59am PT
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Excellent advice R.B., and a good story.
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kinnikinik
Trad climber
B.C.
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Oct 23, 2009 - 10:12am PT
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"The most important thing about expedition food is that there is some"-Eric Shipton
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quietpartner
Trad climber
Moantannah
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Oct 23, 2009 - 01:51pm PT
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"Quit sojering"
"Off yer ass and on yer feet....
Outta the shade and in the heat."
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Esparza
Trad climber
Westminster, CA
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Oct 23, 2009 - 03:02pm PT
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Great posts... This is one of my favorites...
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those timid spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." Theodore Roosevelt
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Oct 23, 2009 - 04:36pm PT
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"Everything you ever heard about Berkeley is either true or an understatement."
1975-76 Boalt Hall catalog.
John
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MisterE
Trad climber
Canoga Bark! CA
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Oct 23, 2009 - 05:50pm PT
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Me: "Didn't you get that climb clean?"
Skip: "No, I hung like a wet rag!"
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dogtown
Trad climber
JackAssVille, Wyoming
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Oct 23, 2009 - 07:06pm PT
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Your not LOST if you don’t care where you are.
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Lee Bow
Trad climber
wet island
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Oct 23, 2009 - 07:22pm PT
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The point to climbing is to gain the reputation of being a hardman, and then to do the minimum amount of climbing to maintain that reputation.
Tom Patey?
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the kid
Trad climber
fayetteville, wv
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Oct 23, 2009 - 07:23pm PT
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my favorite at the moment:
"To Believe is to be Strong. Doubt Cramps Energy. Belief is Power" a quote from F.D.R during a conversation with Winston Churchill 1942
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Oct 23, 2009 - 09:14pm PT
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McClinksi, aka Russ McLean, in one of his more lucid moments:
"If you really want to make a name for yourself in this crazy game, find the routes Bonatti backed down from and climb them."
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Flanders!
Trad climber
June Lake, CA
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Oct 23, 2009 - 10:20pm PT
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A favorite of mine as it seems to fits many parts of life: including many of the posts on ST
"WHEN YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE"
Doug
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Shack
Big Wall climber
Reno NV
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Oct 24, 2009 - 02:01am PT
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"I've had a wonderful time, but this wasn't it." - Groucho Marx
"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it is too dark to read." - Groucho Marx
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MisterE
Trad climber
Canoga Bark! CA
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Oct 24, 2009 - 02:35am PT
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I used to think I was indecisive...now
I am not so sure.
Generally speaking, you aren't learning much when your lips are moving.
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BurnRockBurn
climber
South of Black Rock City (CC,NV)
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Oct 25, 2009 - 12:35am PT
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Beauty is just a light switch away!!!!
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Maysho
climber
Soda Springs, CA
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Oct 25, 2009 - 01:33am PT
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"Climbing may be hard, buts it easier than growing up"
Ed Sklar
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Maysho
climber
Soda Springs, CA
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Oct 25, 2009 - 01:36am PT
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"The more you practice, the luckier you get."
Jim Bridwell
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Oct 25, 2009 - 01:56am PT
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There's a sign on interstate 5, just north of Sacramento, which says "Sheriff Detention Facility". They probably thought the sign means "county jail" or "state prison" or something like that, of course dressed up in the unnecessarily fancy language that bureaucrats and the legal system like. Except what the sign actually means is "jail for sheriffs". Perhaps it was designed and made in a prison, by a witty and educated inmate supervised by slow-wits.
This may please those here who are less than enthusiastic about the law, and who wish that sheriffs were kept in jails. I suppose it's possible that there has been some outbreak of lawlessness amongst sheriffs in California, causing there to be a need for a prison just for them, but it seems unlikely.
I keep meaning to take a picture of the thing, it's so funny.
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Banquo
Trad climber
Morgan Hill, CA
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Oct 25, 2009 - 11:47am PT
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"Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid."
Heinrich Heine
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WBraun
climber
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Oct 25, 2009 - 12:05pm PT
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A sign in at a nuclear reactor research facility back in late sixties -
"Nothing is fool proof...fools are ingenious."
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MisterE
Trad climber
Canoga Bark! CA
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Oct 25, 2009 - 12:07pm PT
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"My name is Hans, I am here to conquer your five-sixes."
"There is no German word for 'take'"
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perswig
climber
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Oct 25, 2009 - 12:40pm PT
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"My name is Hans, I am here to conquer your five-sixes."
Now there's a man after my own heart.
On the back of an adaptive ski-rig on a W. Miller trailer:
"Die living."
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roadman
climber
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Oct 25, 2009 - 01:53pm PT
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"in the land of the blind the one eyed man is king".
I heard it off a tom waits CD but I'm sure he stole it. He's got some good ones.
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the museum
Trad climber
Rapid City
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Oct 25, 2009 - 10:43pm PT
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He who knows best knows how little he knows. Thomas Jefferson
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philo
Trad climber
boulder, co.
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Oct 25, 2009 - 10:51pm PT
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Ben Franklin's favorite saying was "You can't bolt your door with a stewed carrot."
But he was struck by lightning so what did he know.
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DrDeeg
Mountain climber
Mammoth Lakes, CA
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Oct 25, 2009 - 10:55pm PT
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Eric Beck was always good for a few:
"At each end of the social spectrum, lies the leisure class."
(This is sometimes attributed to Thorsten Veblen, but I've looked and I believe it truly is Beck's original.)
"That's like practicing bivouacking." (in response to something he thought was a really stupid idea)
"The secret to face climbing is weight transfer."
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Gobee
Trad climber
Los Angeles
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Oct 25, 2009 - 10:58pm PT
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It's better to ask for forgiveness, then for permission?
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philo
Trad climber
boulder, co.
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Oct 25, 2009 - 10:59pm PT
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Then there was the sign at the entrance to the hippie commune...
"No left turn un-stoned"
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Anastasia
Mountain climber
hanging from a crimp and crying for my mama.
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Oct 25, 2009 - 11:20pm PT
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"Great abilities produce great vices as well as virtues."
Greek Proverb
"In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes."
Mark Twain
"It's always further than it looks.
It's always taller than it looks.
It's always harder than it looks."
-The 3 rules of mountaineering.-
"The love we give away is the only love we keep."
Elbert Hubbard
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zip
Trad climber
pacific beach, ca
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Oct 26, 2009 - 09:10am PT
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A good man, is hard to find. - Roy Rogers
A hard man, is good to find. - Mae West
A day without laughter, is a day wasted. - Charlie Chaplin
A day without sex, is a day wasted. - Marilyn Chambers
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Skeptimistic
Mountain climber
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Oct 26, 2009 - 10:26am PT
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Youth is wasted on the young - G Bernard Shaw
and its Scandanavian origin - Too soon old, too late smart
my personal favorite - I love you
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Fogarty
climber
Back in time..
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Oct 26, 2009 - 02:44pm PT
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Fortune favors the bold.
-Terence
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Vertikal
climber
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Oct 26, 2009 - 03:36pm PT
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Victory awaits him who has everything in order -- luck, people call it.
Defeat is certain for him who has neglected to take the necessary precautions in time; this is called bad luck.
--from The South Pole, by Roald Amundsen.
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John Vawter
Social climber
San Diego
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Oct 26, 2009 - 04:18pm PT
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"Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game."
Winston Churchill
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BillO
Boulder climber
Whittier, CA
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Oct 26, 2009 - 04:21pm PT
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I'm not as think as you stoned I am.
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drljefe
climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
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Oct 26, 2009 - 05:20pm PT
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Only users lose drugs.
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MisterE
Trad climber
Canoga Bark! CA
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Oct 26, 2009 - 06:31pm PT
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"If I keep a green bough in my heart
a singing bird
will come"
--Chinese Proverb
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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Jan 30, 2010 - 02:37am PT
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From a YouTube poster:
"Debating creationists on the topic of evolution is rather like trying to play chess with a pigeon - it knocks the pieces over, craps on the board, and flies back to its flock to claim victory."
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Tobia
Social climber
GA
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Jan 30, 2010 - 08:46am PT
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"With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere."
"You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body."
C.S. Lewis
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Tobia
Social climber
GA
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Jan 30, 2010 - 09:18am PT
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What does he need?
Revenge
Revenge.
For what?
Bein' born.
I have thought and talked and smoked on this matter and my decision is....
Courage! What makes a king out of a slave? Courage! What makes the flag on the mast to wave? Courage! What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist, or the dusky dusk? What makes the muskrat guard his musk? Courage! What makes the sphinx the seventh wonder? Courage! What makes the dawn come up like thunder? Courage! What makes the Hottentot so hot? What puts the "ape" in apricot? What have they got that I ain't got?
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d-know
Trad climber
electric lady land
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Jan 30, 2010 - 10:03am PT
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never let it be said that i
didn't do the least i could do. hawkeye from some mash episode
my new slab climbing mantra:
ja, vee believe in nossing. nihilists from the big lebowski
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DanaB
climber
Philadelphia
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Jan 30, 2010 - 10:57am PT
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Somebody asked Memphis Slim, itinerant blues piano player, about his early years of playing in the Delta in the '30s and '40s. " Man, I didn't care about nothin' except whisky, pussy, and having a good time."
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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Jan 30, 2010 - 12:47pm PT
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"What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so."
Al Gore, 2006, quoting Mark Twain
"True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that an edifice, which produces beggars, needs restructuring."
Martin Luther King
As necessary, change the system.
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George R
climber
The Gray Area
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Jan 30, 2010 - 11:39pm PT
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Dude, where's my car ?
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WandaFuca
Social climber
From the gettin place
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Jan 31, 2010 - 12:28am PT
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Oscar Wilde
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WBraun
climber
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Jan 31, 2010 - 12:38am PT
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Men of small knowledge are very much attached to the flowery words .......
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gonzo chemist
climber
the Twilight Zone of someone else's intentions
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Jan 31, 2010 - 12:57am PT
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"Pain or damage don't end the world. Or despair, or f*#king beatings. The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man... and give some back."
Al Swearengen
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WandaFuca
Social climber
From the gettin place
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Jan 31, 2010 - 01:38am PT
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No man knows less than the man who knows it all . . .
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Cpt0bvi0u5
Trad climber
Merced CA
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Jan 31, 2010 - 01:55am PT
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"The thing that I'm getting out of pushing my limits is that I turn impossible to possible. I turn something I havent done to something I'm doing. But the possibilities of what we are capable of doing if we believe in it is the most compelling thing I can think of." - Dean Potter
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bonin_in_the_boneyard
Trad climber
Up the 'Creek w/out a Prada
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Jan 31, 2010 - 02:49am PT
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"Work is the curse of the drinking classes." Oscar Wilde
"He no playa the game, he no maka the rules." Earl Butz on the Pope's opposition to birth control
"Getting caught is the mother of invention." Robert Byrne
"I saw a wino eating grapes and I was like, 'Dude, you have to wait!'" Mitch Hedberg
"Every night before bed I like to have a little milk and cookies..." Richard Pryor telling an audience how he caught fire
"Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." Benjamin Franklin
"Man who run in front of car get tired. Man who run behind car get exhausted." Asian track coach?
"It's the one that says 'Bad Mother F*#ker' on it." Jules Winfield
"Remember, Don... when God closes a door, he opens a dress." Roger Sterling
"F*#k" Proverbial
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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Jan 31, 2010 - 10:02am PT
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True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a have-not. It comes to see that an edifice, which produces have-nots, needs restructuring.
-Variant on Martin Luther King
You must be the change you wish to see.
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Banquo
Trad climber
Morgan Hill, CA
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Jan 31, 2010 - 12:48pm PT
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Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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"If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and Hiroshima. The peoples of this world must unite, or they will parish. This war, that has ravaged so much of the earth, has written these words. The atomic bomb has spelled them out for all men to understand.... By our works we are committed, committed to a world united, before this common peril, in law, and in humanity."
J. Robert Oppenheimer
acceptance speech of the certificate of appreciation from the secretary of war presented by Gen. Groves at Los Alamos, October 16, 1945
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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"I believe our future depends, powerfully, on how well we understand this Cosmos..."
Carl Sagan
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Gene
Social climber
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If Lincoln were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave.
~Gerald Ford
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the kid
Trad climber
fayetteville, wv
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This is my favorite quote:
From "Darkness at Noon"
"I don't like to work, no man does. But I like what's in the work, the chance to find yourself, your own reality. For yourself, not for others. What no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and can never tell what it really means." - Joseph Conrad
kurt
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Srbphoto
Trad climber
Kennewick wa
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" I just saw a Cadillac commercial and the music was by Led Zeppelin. I thought "how nice, Cadillac is trying to appeal to young people""
Some comedian on the radio this morning.
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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Re: belief, believers
1. When you stand for everything you stand for nothing.
2. Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
Re: change
It's a lot easier to change when you can than when you have to.
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cintune
climber
the Moon and Antarctica
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"The mountain doesn't know you're an expert." - John Porter
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Hawkeye
climber
State of Mine
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I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.
Dan Quayle
I have made good judgements in the Past. I have made good judgements in the Future.
Dan Quayle
People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
Dan Quayle
Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.
Dan Quayle
The future will be better tomorrow.
Dan Quayle
More quotations on: [The Future]
We don't want to go back to tomorrow, we want to go forward.
Dan Quayle
We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a *part* of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a *part* of Europe.
Dan Quayle
We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
Dan Quayle
Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts.
Dan Quayle
What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.
Dan Quayle
When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame.
Dan Quayle
[It's] time for the human race to enter the solar system.
Dan Quayle
Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.
Dan Quayle, 11/30/88
One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'.
Dan Quayle, 12/6/89
Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
Dan Quayle, 5/20/92 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)
I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.
Dan Quayle, 5/22/89
Mars is essentially in the same orbit... Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe.
Dan Quayle, 8/11/89
Murphy Brown is doing better than I am. At least she knows she still has a job next year.
Dan Quayle, 8/18/92
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century. |
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jjhellstrom
Trad climber
Dayton, OH
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To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.
-Eva Young
I don't abide by heroes. Oversized characters can dwarf our imagination, making us forget that ordinary people can do extraordinary things, too.
--Janusz Korczak
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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"For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert." (anonymous courtroom attorneys)
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climber9
Trad climber
Cameron Park, CA
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Apr 11, 2010 - 03:42am PT
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On my college buddy's faded yellow t-shirt:
I'm a dirty little monkey and I'm totally out of control.
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MisterE
Social climber
Across Town From Easy Street
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Apr 11, 2010 - 11:37am PT
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"I just got an ant farm? Them fellas didn't grow sh'it!"
-Mitch Hedberg
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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Apr 20, 2010 - 05:13pm PT
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"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."
(J. Krishnamurti)
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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Jun 24, 2010 - 11:16am PT
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Yvon Chouinard-
"We're a part of nature. As we destroy nature, we destroy ourselves. It is a selfish thing to want to protect nature."
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go-B
climber
In God We Trust
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Jun 24, 2010 - 11:46am PT
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Since it cost a lot to win, and even more to lose, you and me gotta spend some time, wonderin' what to choose -Hunter/Garcia
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Seamstress
Trad climber
Yacolt, WA
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Jun 24, 2010 - 06:49pm PT
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"Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."
Shakespeare
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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Jun 30, 2010 - 02:26pm PT
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"Skipt, you are an idiot. Jesus hates idiots who are incapable of admitting when they are wrong."
-Weschrist, June 2010
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cliffhanger
Trad climber
California
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Jun 30, 2010 - 03:25pm PT
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Hermann Goering Quote
"Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on
a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of
it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people
don't want war neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in
Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the
country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to
drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist
dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no
voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders.
That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked,
and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the
country to danger. It works the same in any country."
by:
Hermann Goering
(1893-1946) Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe, President of the Reichstag, Prime Minister of Prussia and, as Hitler's designated successor, the second man in the Third Reich. [Göring]
Date:
April 18, 1946
Source:
Nuremberg Diary (Farrar, Straus & Co 1947), by Gustave Gilbert (an Allied appointed psychologist), who visited daily with Goering and his cronies in their cells, afterwards making notes and ultimately writing the book about these conversations.
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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Jun 30, 2010 - 03:37pm PT
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In the spirit of Cliffhanger's post, I'll add:
A cynic is someone who sees things the way they really are...
Mark Twain
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Norwegian
Trad climber
Placerville, California
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Jun 30, 2010 - 03:57pm PT
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in conversation with the lord, i sputter such as:
gowd fukin dammit!
why do you pry sorrow from me you dos focking c%&nt!
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eeyonkee
Trad climber
Golden, CO
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Jun 30, 2010 - 06:11pm PT
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"A man who hates kids and dogs can't be all bad." W.C. Fields
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Jun 30, 2010 - 06:19pm PT
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A few Churchill quotes...
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
"Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old."
"I like a man who grins when he fights."
"If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack."
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moacman
Trad climber
Montana
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Jun 30, 2010 - 07:08pm PT
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"You can't make chicken salad out of chicken sh*t"
(Mom)
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Jun 30, 2010 - 07:44pm PT
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"Slurp, chortle, momf."--Brenda Puff
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MisterE
Social climber
Bouncy Tiggerville
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Jun 30, 2010 - 07:47pm PT
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^^Mom quotes!^^
Regarding a complaint about the small size of the pantry, and the over-sized walk-in closet on the other side, I suggested moving the wall a foot or two. She looked at me aghast and quipped:
"You can't just hack it out with a chainsaw and call it a day!"
haha - I'll never forget that one...
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SicMic
climber
across the street from Marshall, CO
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Jun 30, 2010 - 07:58pm PT
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"Don't slap rude and sail if you're shaky at the grade."
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Mimi
climber
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Jun 30, 2010 - 07:59pm PT
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Saw a good bumper sticker today:
Wag more. Bark less.
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Seamstress
Trad climber
Yacolt, WA
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Jun 30, 2010 - 08:16pm PT
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From my daugher at 5 years old, told we have no money for the toy she wanted to buy....
"There is a money machine over there. You can get some."
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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Jul 13, 2010 - 11:44am PT
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"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."
-Jonathan Swift
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Norwegian
Trad climber
Placerville, California
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Jul 13, 2010 - 01:16pm PT
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a blank stare passage comprises a quick quote, held dearly.
conversations with a bullet.
hope flickers, so the finger engages the trigger.
the infant moment following, where he stares upon the business end of the bullet that will soon alight him, is a slight pause in eternity.
the inanimate bullet becomes his chaufer.
"where you wish?" it inquires.
"away from everywhere, into nowhere's open arms." he muses.
the projection of the bullet interrupts while it processes his insufficient request.
then, flight resumes and the bullet mutters,
"dumb f*#k. the pains that i impart will not be temporary. they will be yours and your's until.
with the transaction complete, abiding forces such as acceleration due to gravity and deceleration due to wind drag uphold their duty upon both the bullet and his emotions.
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SCseagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz
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Jul 13, 2010 - 04:22pm PT
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back in late 70s I spotted this bumper sticker (obviously someone fed up with burgeoning environmental love fest) "Nuke the Whales" Not my politics but it did capture an alternative version of life at the time.
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BooDawg
Social climber
Paradise Island
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Jul 14, 2010 - 08:10am PT
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"Life is a bivouac." -Russ McLean
"You never know..." -Fred Becky
"We cheated death again!" -Russ McLean
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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Jul 19, 2010 - 09:41pm PT
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"You didn't check the forecast??? Seems mighty irresponsible."
"This is the kind of mindset that gets people killed. Mountains don't move. It'll be there another day. Rolling the dice on that day with that forecast not only could have gotten you killed, but endangered the lives of SAR professionals."
"When non-climbers weigh in on climbing related issues, it's really outrageous."
-Cragman, July 2010, a Third Pillar of Dana thread
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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Jul 19, 2010 - 09:46pm PT
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"If we differ on ultimates, then we are ultimately different. If you have one vision of ultimate reality and value, and I have another, then we have nowhere to go when we encounter deep conflicts of interest. If we lack a shared orientation in nature and history, and if we lack a common understanding of who we are and what we should strive for together, then we lack the means to transcend our differences when the soical chips are down. We will be left to think that the other just has it wrong."
Loyal Rue, Religion is Not About God, 2005
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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Jul 19, 2010 - 10:22pm PT
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"Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them."
-Thomas Jefferson
re: god concepts, too:
Jehovah: God of Moses; God of Abraham; God of the ancient Hebrews; God of modern Jews, Christians and Muslims
Hypercrates: personification of the ultimate force, or ultimate forces, controlling the Cosmos and the lives, nature and history of living things
Diacrates: hypothetical Intelligence many, including Einstein, speculated about as a possibility
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The Chef
climber
Topsfield Ma
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Jul 20, 2010 - 12:24am PT
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"Men hang out their signs indicitive of their respective trades. Shoemakers hang out a gigantic shoe; jewelers a monster watch; even a dentist hangs out a gold tooth; but in the Franconia Mountains God Almighty has hung out a sign to show that in New England He makes men" Daniel Webster, 1831
"Put a cast on your pussy bone and do it" Joseph Re, 2009
"Every day I go to the paper to check the Obituaries. If I'm not in there, it's a good day" George Carlin, 19??
Joe.
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Daphne
Trad climber
Mill Valley, CA
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Jul 20, 2010 - 12:29am PT
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"Time isn't the enemy. Fear of change is. Accept that nothing lasts forever and you'll start to appreciate the advantages of whatever age you are now."
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BooDawg
Social climber
Paradise Island
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Jul 21, 2010 - 01:53am PT
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Mono Lake lies in a lifeless, treeless, hideous desert eight thousand feet above the level of the sea…
…its sluggish waters are so strong with alkali that if you only dip the most hopelessly soiled garment into them once or twice and wring it out, it will be found as clean as if it had been through the ablest of washerwomen’s hands…
…This water is not good for bruised places and abrasions of the skin. We had a valuable dog. He had raw places on him. He had more raw places than sound ones. He was the rawest dog I almost ever saw. He jumped overboard one day to get away from the flies. But it was bad judgment. In his condition, it would have been just as comfortable to jump into the fire. The alkali water nipped him in all the raw places simultaneously, and he set out for shore with considerable interest. He yelped and barked and howled as he went – and by the time he got to shore there was no bark to him – for he had barked the bark all out of his inside, and the alkali water had cleaned the bark all off his outside, and he probably wished he’d never embarked on any such enterprise…
A white man cannot drink the water of Mono Lake for it is nearly pure lye. It is said that the Indians in the vicinity drink it sometimes, though. It is not improbable, for they are among the purest liars I ever saw.
-Mark Twain, Roughing It
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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Aug 16, 2010 - 03:38pm PT
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re: the slander and hostility posted on the forum of supertopo
"It all starts with snarky, condescending comments by these Christian freaks on their religious threads."
Pate
August, 2010
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Aug 16, 2010 - 06:00pm PT
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Good one, Daph!
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Srbphoto
climber
Kennewick wa
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Aug 23, 2010 - 05:22pm PT
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"Golf is now more bad ass than trad climbing!"
John Bachar - "Doug Robinson, Sean Jones, rap bolt South face of Half Dome!" thread on the Taco.
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MisterE
Social climber
Bouncy Tiggerville
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Aug 23, 2010 - 08:04pm PT
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Another bumper sticker:
Can you fix my husband? He says he's broke
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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Sep 25, 2010 - 05:25pm PT
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"They're pussies. [Democrats] are the worse salesmen in the world - they could not talk Lindsey Lohan into a rum and coke."
Bill Maher
Real Time, Sept 24, 2010
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Brokedownclimber
Trad climber
Douglas, WY
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Nov 12, 2010 - 11:18pm PT
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You can't fool all the people all the time....that's why there are 2 political parties...
Bob Hope
This is one of my favorites when surfing the political threads here, and reading Dr. F's rants.
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MisterE
Social climber
Bouncy Tiggerville
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Nov 14, 2010 - 07:59pm PT
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Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Douglas Adams
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MisterE
Social climber
Bouncy Tiggerville
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Nov 14, 2010 - 08:03pm PT
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Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
Douglas Adams
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
Douglas Adams
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
Douglas Adams
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Maysho
climber
Soda Springs, CA
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Nov 14, 2010 - 08:46pm PT
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"The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear."
Aung San Suu Kyi
And she was freed yesterday after 15 years of being detained by the government of Burma!
Peter
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MisterE
Social climber
Bouncy Tiggerville
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Nov 14, 2010 - 09:56pm PT
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"The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear."
Aung San Suu Kyi
And she was freed yesterday after 15 years of being detained by the government of Burma!
Peter
Perfect, Peter.
Thanks.
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Tobia
Social climber
GA
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Nov 15, 2010 - 06:44am PT
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"(barf)" - A Crowley
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hallvano
climber
Norway
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Nov 15, 2010 - 09:30am PT
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"Sports climbing is like eating on McDonalds, you know what you get"
Written on the bar of Climbers Café, Lofoten, Norway. Dunno who said it.
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skywalker
climber
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Nov 15, 2010 - 10:31am PT
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"Don't cry because its over, smile because it happened"
S.....
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Nov 15, 2010 - 11:18am PT
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"The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children"
Ivan Turgenev
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seth kovar
climber
Reno, NV
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Nov 15, 2010 - 11:26am PT
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"Almost only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades" - ?
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the kid
Trad climber
fayetteville, wv
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Nov 15, 2010 - 11:27am PT
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"I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know. "
Joseph Conrad- HEart of Darkness
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FRUMY
Trad climber
SHERMAN OAKS,CA
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Nov 15, 2010 - 11:28am PT
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the darkest most evil thing any humane has ever done.
jefferson Davis
talking about the emancipation proclamation.
don't worry the tea party is here & we are going constitutional - states rights - slavery is on the way back.
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HuecoRat
Trad climber
NJ
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Nov 15, 2010 - 12:20pm PT
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The will to win is nothing...compared to the will to prepare to win.
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neversummer
Mountain climber
perris, cali
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Nov 15, 2010 - 12:52pm PT
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want in one hand and sh#t in the other, see which one fills up first.
thats what my dad always said anyways
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Gorgeous George
Trad climber
Los Angeles, California
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Nov 15, 2010 - 02:08pm PT
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A polymath is someone who likes everything and nothing else. Umberto Eco
The truth, uncompromisingly told, always has its ragged edges. Herman Melville
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Mark Not-circlehead
Boulder climber
Martinez, CA
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Nov 15, 2010 - 02:18pm PT
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Probably already posted already in this thread, but here goes anyway.
My two favorite "Tucker-isms":
" I merely choose not to feel pain"
" In this life, you don't get what you want, you get what you deserve"
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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Nov 23, 2010 - 01:41pm PT
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Henri Poincare: We also know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling.
Bob (under 40): More "consoling" or more important? Nothing's more important than truth -no matter how hard or sharp its edges.
Bob (over 40): Did I really say that? Whoops, youthful indiscretion.
.....
Struggle between "what is" (what's real/true) and "what matters" (what's important) is always going to exist in the practice of living. Esp across age groups, interest groups, moods, circumstances, etc. Because each in their own way contributes to "what works" in the practice of living.
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this just in
Ice climber
north fork
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Nov 23, 2010 - 03:37pm PT
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"Dirka dirka"
Team America
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Nov 23, 2010 - 08:33pm PT
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"I'll try anything once. Twice if it hurts"
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Captain...or Skully
Big Wall climber
leading the away team, but not in a red shirt!
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Nov 25, 2010 - 05:25pm PT
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There are times when you can only take the next step. And then another.
William Gibson
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Srbphoto
climber
Kennewick wa
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Nov 25, 2010 - 10:05pm PT
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"People will try anything to improve their game, except practice"
Vic Braden, Tennis Coach
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Nick
climber
portland, Oregon
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Nov 26, 2010 - 12:52am PT
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"When your nose is to the grindstone, don't stick your tongue out."
My wife yesterday morning.
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hooblie
climber
from where the anecdotes roam
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Nov 26, 2010 - 10:29am PT
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apropos of our little skirmishes:
"the reason academic disagreements are so bitter is because the stakes are so small"
henry kissinger
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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Nov 26, 2010 - 03:21pm PT
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Here's a twist, showing how it can go either way:
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved..."
Charles Darwin
The Descent of Man (1871)
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Nov 26, 2010 - 03:24pm PT
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I'm reading Ben Franklin's autobiography right now.
There's a "favorite quote",
about every five pages or so.
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Nov 26, 2010 - 03:34pm PT
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A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
Mohandas Gandhi
Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.
Mohandas Gandhi
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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Nov 28, 2010 - 11:19pm PT
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"A hundred pounds of uranium is smaller than a football. Every way that drugs come to New York City would be the same way highly enriched uranium could come. If you have any doubt about the ability of al Qaeda to bring highly enriched uranium into the U.S., they could always hide it in a bale of marijuana."
terrorist expert,
in the film, Countdown to Zero
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dee ee
Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
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"Trivial move, just cranked into it wrong." JL?
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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"I ain't no fukkin' pad person" the Blute.
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groundup
Trad climber
hard sayin' not knowin'
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overheard from somewhere above Touch and Go in Eldorado Canyon:
climber: "I'm screwed! what should I do?!?"
belayer(at the top of his lungs) "what does not kill you, only makes you stronger"
climber(quietly) "but what if it kills me?"
belayer: "uhh... on belay?"
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FRUMY
Trad climber
SHERMAN OAKS,CA
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the sweetest fruit grows at home
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TYeary
Social climber
State of decay
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"You don't need to be a weatherman to know which way the wind blows"
Dylan
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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This guy - George Lawrence - said "The hitherto impossible in photography is my specialty"
Then he backed it up with pictures like this:
http://www.sfgate.com/maps/1906quake/
Lawrence used 17 kites linked together to lift his 50lb camera up over San Francisco Bay to get this shot of the city right after the earthquake of '06. (1906)
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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"All of us cherish our beliefs. They are, to a degree, self-defining. When someone comes along who challenges our belief system as insufficiently well-based - or who, like Socrates, merely asks embarassing questions that we haven't thought of, or demonstrates that we've swept key underlying assumptions under the rug - it becomes much more than a search for knowledge. It feels like a personal assault."
Carl Sagan
Demon Haunted World
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Fredrick
Social climber
Ocean City, NJ
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Most joyous quote:
"For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." John 3:16
Saddest quote:
"And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire." Revelation 20:15
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crunch
Social climber
CO
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"A pinnacle is worth five walls!"
Layton Kor
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chill
climber
between the flat part and the blue wobbly thing
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"If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure".
G.W. Bush
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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Dec 27, 2010 - 08:59pm PT
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"We are becoming a nation of wusses."
Ed Rendell, Governor of Pennsylvania (Dec 2010)
re: the cancellation of an NFL football game due to bad weather
And Rendell's frosting on the cake:
"The Chinese are kicking our butts in everything. If this was in China, do you think the Chinese would've called off the game? People would've been marching down to the stadium, they would have walked and they would have been doing Calculus on the way down."
Rendell is a democrat, too.
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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Dec 27, 2010 - 09:08pm PT
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I think Bush said that if we don't fail, we run the risk of success.
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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Dec 29, 2010 - 02:39pm PT
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re: the ascent of man
"...the ascent of man is not made by loveable people, it's made by people who have two qualities, an immense integrity and at least a little genius."
Jacob Bronowski,
in the film, Ascent of Man
Another from JB:
"That's the essence of science. Ask an impertinent question and you're on the way to the pertinent answer."
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Dec 29, 2010 - 02:43pm PT
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That SF quake/kite shot is amazing, Chaz, cool stuff!
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nita
Social climber
chica from chico..waiting on spring days..
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"Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you. "
— WALT WHITMAN
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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"It has 4 forward gears 12 reverse gears. We like to get out of trouble faster than we get into it." -- Kelly of Kelly's Heros
"There's a lot of truth to those facts." -- Kelly, a famous Technical Writer
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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"If you don't eat yer meat, you can't have any pudding!"
Heard it me 'ole blighted childhood!
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Tea
Trad climber
Behind the Zion Curtain
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"Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead."
— Charles Bukowski
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Amy
Sport climber
Santa Fe, NM
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"Make the best of it, cause there's little choice"
-Karl Baba
Saw that memorable line in another thread and it's been motivating me through my current injured phase!
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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Jan 16, 2011 - 11:55am PT
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“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
Oscar Wilde
Ties in with Amy's.
Thanks Lisa. For the reminder. ;)
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hooblie
climber
from where the anecdotes roam
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Jan 16, 2011 - 12:27pm PT
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on the list of places i've lived are some of the most expensive ones out there. my response, when asked how i managed:
"the cost of doing without is the same wherever you go"
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deepnet
Boulder climber
CA
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Jan 16, 2011 - 12:42pm PT
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"the only time I hold your hand is to get the angle right"
-Amy Winehouse from the song "In My Bed"
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Jan 16, 2011 - 12:48pm PT
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K-man, I believe that was Oddball, (Donald Sutherland) in his rocks in mouth Detroit accent, and not Kelly, who said that.
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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Feb 14, 2011 - 11:20pm PT
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"Right after I came out of jail, I wrote a status message that we are going to win because we don't understand politics, because we don't understand their nasty games; we're going to win because our tears come from our heart."
Wael Ghonim, the young Egyptian who organized the new age revolution in Egypt in Feb 2011
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pocoloco1
Social climber
The Chihuahua Desert
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Feb 14, 2011 - 11:29pm PT
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
Henry David Thoreau
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Feb 14, 2011 - 11:48pm PT
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"I would never join a club that would have me as a member"
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FRUMY
Trad climber
SHERMAN OAKS,CA
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Feb 15, 2011 - 12:01am PT
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The man prayer " I am a man, I can change, if I have to, I guess."
The truth as spoken by Red Green from the Red Green Show.
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Feb 15, 2011 - 12:06am PT
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"If you had to do it all over-would you fall in love with yourself again?" Gershwin
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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Feb 15, 2011 - 12:09am PT
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"I want a real good woman to do just what I say."
Bob Dylan
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Q- Ball
Mountain climber
where the wind always blows
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Feb 15, 2011 - 12:10am PT
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"There aren't any strangers in the mountains, just friend's you haven't met" Skinner saying.
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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Feb 24, 2011 - 05:24pm PT
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Believe a quarter of what you hear and half of what you see.
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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Feb 24, 2011 - 05:26pm PT
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Jaybro, you are absolutely correct, it was Oddball....
How's this one, from my favorite of all SpeedBallers, Lowell George:
All I need is a pretty girl in a lonely town.
~ or ~
One from Robert Earl Keen:
If I could live my life all over
It wouldn't matter anyway
'Cause I never could stay sober
On the Corpus Christi Bay
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FRUMY
Trad climber
SHERMAN OAKS,CA
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Feb 24, 2011 - 05:26pm PT
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Everyone has a plan till they get punched in the face
Mike Tyson
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Gene
climber
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Feb 24, 2011 - 05:35pm PT
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i kind of put my own spillway-spin-off of happines into it...
~Neebee
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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Feb 24, 2011 - 05:43pm PT
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Anyone with half an imagination can imagine a world better than this one.
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Anastasia
climber
hanging from a crimp and crying for my mama.
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Feb 24, 2011 - 05:48pm PT
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Greek Proverbs I grew up with...
"He who becomes a sheep is eaten by the wolf."
"He who doesn't listen to his friends, makes his enemies happy."
"At age 20 mind, at age 30 life, at age 40 a wife. Otherwise no mind no life no wife." (Kefalonian proverb)
"Too many opinions sink the boat."
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Q- Ball
Mountain climber
where the wind always blows
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Feb 24, 2011 - 10:17pm PT
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There are no strangers in the mountains, just friends you haven't met -Courtney Skinner
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Jingy
climber
Somewhere out there
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Feb 24, 2011 - 10:32pm PT
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With every sunrise there is a new chance. But with every sunset you know you blew it
It takes a big man to cry, and it takes an even bigger man to laugh at that man.
Jack Handy
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Douglas Rhiner
Mountain climber
Truckee , CA
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Feb 24, 2011 - 10:34pm PT
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Don't worry America, Israel will protect you - Jeff Elfont
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yosguns
climber
Durham, NC
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Feb 24, 2011 - 10:36pm PT
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Never try to teach a pig to sing...
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drunkenmaster
Social climber
santa rosa
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Feb 24, 2011 - 10:54pm PT
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“'You are drunk Sir Winston, you are disgustingly drunk. 'Yes, Mrs. Braddock, I am drunk. But you, Mrs. Braddock are ugly, and disgustingly fat. But, tomorrow morning, I, Winston Churchill will be sober.”
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drunkenmaster
Social climber
santa rosa
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Feb 24, 2011 - 10:55pm PT
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"Actually, it only takes one drink to get me loaded. Trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or fourteenth."
-George Burns
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Feb 25, 2011 - 12:24am PT
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hey there all, say, i got some favorite quotes, right about now:
course: they're from folks that are about as fictional as any good fiction folks should be, :)
HERE IS A FEW:
"You need to hand-shake a branch in person, you see?"
(said by sheriff lenny lowrie, to mr. david dare, in:
SOMETIMES CLOTHES MAKE THE MAN -- EXCEPT WHEN THEY DON'T
"Your gimlets a mite crooked, AIN'T IT?"
(said by jade smith, to an snooty old aquaintance of sofia's, in:
"I DON'T CARE IF IT'S BROKEN... I'VE GROWN FOND OF IT..."
"He'll never ben an Alex Humbolt, that's for sure,"
(said by the mingling-crowd, to angie emmeric, in:
ANGIE'S ALARMED ALEX
"Ma also told me there's lots of hoses in the store in town, if a man feels like going a few extra MILES to get one..."
(Jake's "trapped thoughts" good enough for a fine "quote of his own" if he could talk) meant to be said to his wife sofia, in:
"I DON'T CARE IF IT'S BROKEN... I'VE GROWN FOND OF IT..."
okay, that ought to do it for now....
:)
*course, as i always say:
"there's nothing like an unfamous-author to lay down many-a-steppingstones to her ol' books... that is, if she's partial enough to her own writing, to do so..."
said by neebee to the ol' supertopo-taco...
hee hee
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Feb 25, 2011 - 01:26am PT
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In honor of Juan:
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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Feb 25, 2011 - 02:25am PT
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Anybody know who Vannevar Bush is?
"To pursue science is not to disparage the thngs of the spirit. In fact, to pursue science rightly is to furnish the framework on which the spirit may rise."
Vannevar Bush (1946)
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Guernica
climber
the second star to the right
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Feb 25, 2011 - 02:48am PT
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"Be patient towards all that is unsolved within your heart and try to love the questions themselves."
Rainer Maria Rilke
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Feb 25, 2011 - 03:16am PT
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Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission.
Vannevar Bush
OFFICE OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
1530 P Street, NW.
Washington 25, D.C.
JULY 25, 1945
DEAR MR. PRESIDENT:
In a letter dated November 17, 1944, President Roosevelt requested my recommendations on the following points:
(1) What can be done, consistent with military security, and with the prior approval of the military authorities, to make known to the world as soon as possible the contributions which have been made during our war effort to scientific knowledge?
(2) With particular reference to the war of science against disease, what can be done now to organize a program for continuing in the future the work which has been done in medicine and related sciences?
(3) What can the Government do now and in the future to aid research activities by public and private organizations?
(4) Can an effective program be proposed for discovering and developing scientific talent in American youth so that the continuing future of scientific research in this country may be assured on a level comparable to what has been done during the war?
It is clear from President Roosevelt's letter that in speaking of science that he had in mind the natural sciences, including biology and medicine, and I have so interpreted his questions. Progress in other fields, such as the social sciences and the humanities, is likewise important; but the program for science presented in my report warrants immediate attention.
In seeking answers to President Roosevelt's questions I have had the assistance of distinguished committees specially qualified to advise in respect to these subjects. The committees have given these matters the serious attention they deserve; indeed, they have regarded this as an opportunity to participate in shaping the policy of the country with reference to scientific research. They have had many meetings and have submitted formal reports. I have been in close touch with the work of the committees and with their members throughout. I have examined all of the data they assembled and the suggestions they submitted on the points raised in President Roosevelt's letter.
Although the report which I submit herewith is my own, the facts, conclusions, and recommendations are based on the findings of the committees which have studied these questions. Since my report is necessarily brief, I am including as appendices the full reports of the committees.
A single mechanism for implementing the recommendations of the several committees is essential. In proposing such a mechanism I have departed somewhat from the specific recommendations of the committees, but I have since been assured that the plan I am proposing is fully acceptable to the committee members.
The pioneer spirit is still vigorous within this nation. Science offers a largely unexplored hinterland for the pioneer who has the tools for his task. The rewards of such exploration both for the Nation and the individual are great. Scientific progress is one essential key to our security as a nation, to our better health, to more jobs, to a higher standard of living, and to our cultural progress.
Respectfully yours,
(s) V. Bush, Director
THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES,
The White House,
Washington, D. C.
an historic foot note, the Trinity test took place on July 16, 1945. The atomic bombing of Hiroshima was August 6, 1945 and of Nagasaki August 9, 1945.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Feb 25, 2011 - 04:22am PT
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hey there say, gene.... oh my, i just saw you liked a quote from one of my posts, on another thread.... :)) say, i MUST now use that quote in one of my stories, as i has some kind of sparkle to it, now...
:)
hmmm, i reckon i will give that line, to jade... :)
...somehow someway... :)
thanks for the fun smile you brought me tonight...
happy supertopo eve, to one and all...
:)
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seth kovar
climber
Reno, NV
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Feb 28, 2011 - 12:37pm PT
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"In our culture, you have to walk the walk, to earn respect. There are some that climb at the highest level, and some who are just starting, but the shared experience, gives us all something in common." -- Coz
right f-ing on...
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FRUMY
Trad climber
SHERMAN OAKS,CA
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"If you see it hit it".
Yogi Berra
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FRUMY
Trad climber
SHERMAN OAKS,CA
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Mar 22, 2011 - 09:13pm PT
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"While a battle is raging one can see his enemy mowed down by the thousands, or the ten thousand, with great composure; but after the battle these scenes are distressing, and one is naturally disposed to do as much to alleviate the suffering of an enemy as a friend."
Ulysses S. Grant
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Gal
Trad climber
a semi lucid consciousness
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Mar 22, 2011 - 09:39pm PT
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Okay,Whatever-I like those quotes.
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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Mar 31, 2011 - 06:45pm PT
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We not only came from monkeys, we all came from a tree shrew. And I am proud to come from a tree shrew.
BASE104
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philo
Trad climber
Somewhere halfway over the rainbow
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Mar 31, 2011 - 06:47pm PT
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"You can't bolt your door with a stewed carrot".
Ben Franklin.
This was reported to be his favorite saying.
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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Mar 31, 2011 - 08:43pm PT
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"But this much I know: When the storm breaks, each man acts in accordance with his own nature. Some are dumb with terror. Some flee. Some hide. And some... spread their wings like eagles and soar on the wind."
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Do you see this fine thing? Do you admire the
humanity of it? Because the human beings, my son, they believe
everything is alive. Not only man and animals. But also water,
earth, stone. And also the things from them... like that hair. The
man from whom this hair came, hes bald on the other side, because
I now own his scalp! That is the way things are. But the white man,
they believe EVERYTHING is dead. Stone, earth, animals. And people!
Even their own people! If things keep trying to live, white man
will rub them out. That is the difference.
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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Gary,
Thanks. I just put Little Big Man (1970) on my movie list. Somehow i missed it, looks really good.
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jamatt
Social climber
Asheville, NC
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"When the shadow of the sash appeared on 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 excruciating-ly 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."
-William Faulkner, Sound and Fury, June 2, 1910 (Chapter 2)
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WBraun
climber
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All this lip service here doesn't do sh'it ......
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Chango
Trad climber
norcal
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"This above all: to thine own self be true"
William Shakespeare
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 2, 2011 - 10:20am PT
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“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea”
~Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool." Richard Feynman
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Phantom X
Trad climber
Honeycomb Hideout
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"I'm hungrier than a Bullbitch with fourteen pups" Smokey Stover
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allapah
climber
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Apr 10, 2011 - 12:28am PT
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"Surely, Herr Doktor, you do not object to a morning shower?"
Anderl in The Eiger Sanction
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climber bob
Social climber
maine
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Apr 11, 2011 - 01:31pm PT
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"red at night, rain it might" lepton man on awakening to rain on the top of leaning tower after watching a red sunset
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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Apr 15, 2011 - 06:48pm PT
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Father to Son,
"You are probably aware that I am not a particularly religious person, at least in the sense of embracing any of the numerous conventional doctrines. Yet I cannot conceive of a man endowed with intellect, perceiving the ordered universe around him, the glory of the mountain top, the plumage of the tropical bird, the roiling mysteries of the ocean depths, the intricate complexity of a protein molecule, the utter and unchanging perfection of a salt crystal, who can deny the existence of some higher power. Whether he choses to call it God or Mohammed, the Turquoise Woman, the Invisible Pink Unicorn, or the Law of Probability matters little. I find myself, in my writings, calling upon Mother Nature to explain things, and citing Her as responsible for the order of the universe. She is a very satisfactory divinity for me. And so I shall call upon Her to watch over you and guard you, and if she so desires, to share with you some of her vast secrets which She is usually so ready to share with those who have high purpose."
In a letter to NASA Mercury astronaut Scott Carpenter by his father -
just before Carpenter's famous orbital Mercury spaceflight -
1962
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FRUMY
Trad climber
SHERMAN OAKS,CA
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Apr 15, 2011 - 08:55pm PT
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HFCS - TFPU
Good quote
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Apr 15, 2011 - 09:46pm PT
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Great quote HFCS.
Although I think MN is in a bit of a pissed off mood of late.
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Apr 15, 2011 - 10:54pm PT
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An unlived life is not worth examining
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Ihateplastic
Trad climber
It ain't El Cap, Oregon
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Apr 16, 2011 - 03:20am PT
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"I did the twenty-three-hour Nose route to the top of El Capitan in eighteen hours and twenty-three minutes, I can get over this."
Avery Bishop
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perswig
climber
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Apr 17, 2011 - 09:19am PT
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Nice find, HFCS.
My new favorite (found on a shooting forum, no less):
"I didn't say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you."
Ha.
Dale
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Tomcat
Trad climber
Chatham N.H.
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Apr 17, 2011 - 10:10am PT
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If you don't know which knot,tie a lot.....
But my all time fav is " I wish I was as sure about one thing as he is about everything".
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Apr 17, 2011 - 12:39pm PT
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"Paul is undead"
Zombie movie about the Beatles.
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Apr 17, 2011 - 03:50pm PT
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"Red sky at night, sailors' delight.
Red sky in the morning, sailor eats sh#t."
Guido
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Apr 17, 2011 - 11:11pm PT
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"Man, I'm getting too old for this sh#t." Me. After pretty much every climb with an approach of more than 10 minutes lately.
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Jay Wood
Trad climber
Fairfax, CA
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Apr 18, 2011 - 12:32am PT
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"Some cause happiness wherever they go;
others, whenever they go." Oscar Wilde
"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends." ibid
"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure."
Clarence Darrow
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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Apr 18, 2011 - 06:01pm PT
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Jay,
Those are good ones.
.....
"We are at the threshold of the greatest revolution in man's history, the comprehension of the nature of life itself. There is no greater object of wonder, no greater thing of beauty, than the dynamic order, the organized complexity of life. And what we are witnessing is perhaps the most dramatic event in the slow evolution of life - the human brain scrutinizing itself and its origins, life turning on itself! We who are of nature are evolving to know nature."
From "Cell Structure and Function"
Ariel Loewy and Philip Siekevitz
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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Apr 24, 2011 - 12:51pm PT
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Man, you are one twisted f*#k.
Nope, I'm just an ordinary guy with nothing to lose.
.....
"Rockclimbing is one of the things hydrogen atoms do given 15 billion years of cosmic evolution."
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Apr 24, 2011 - 12:53pm PT
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Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates. - Werner Herzog
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Sonic
Trad climber
Central Coast, California
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Apr 24, 2011 - 12:56pm PT
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"Youre either a recovering alpinist or a recovering alchoholic."
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hooblie
climber
from where the anecdotes roam
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Apr 24, 2011 - 01:01pm PT
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"get back loretta"
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perswig
climber
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Apr 25, 2011 - 07:39am PT
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A partner, very strong rock climber but novice on ice:
"Climbing steep ice hurts my cows."
English is not his native tongue.
Dale
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Batrock
Trad climber
Burbank
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Apr 25, 2011 - 07:51am PT
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"Atom bombs take all the fun out of war" Edward Abbey
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Jennie
Trad climber
Elk Creek, Idaho
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Apr 25, 2011 - 08:32am PT
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"All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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Apr 27, 2011 - 09:14pm PT
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"Don't say penis in this house!"
Ronnie's mom to Ronnie,
in the film, Born on the Fourth of July
"Penis! Big f*#king erect penis, Mom!"
Penis!
Penis!
Ronnie
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Chango
Trad climber
norcal
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Apr 27, 2011 - 10:53pm PT
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"We've got no food, we've got no jobs...our pets heads are falling off!"
Lloyd...."Dumb and Dumber"
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OR
Trad climber
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Apr 27, 2011 - 11:17pm PT
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" Hey, kick me down some of that kick ass cheesebread"
Mr Way begging a waitress behind the Mountain Room for a meal while she was having a smoke break.
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Gene
climber
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Apr 28, 2011 - 05:57pm PT
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If you fall to your left, you fall 8,000 feet into Nepal. If you fall to your right, you fall 12,000 feet into Tibet. It’s probably better to fall into Tibet because you’ll live a little longer. Either way, you’ll fall for the rest of your life.
Ken Kambler on the final part of the South Col route on Everest
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the kid
Trad climber
fayetteville, wv
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I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blue blaze, Than it be stifled by dry rot.
I would rather be a superb meteor, Every atom of me in magnificent glow, Than a sleepy and permanent planet.
The proper function of a man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
"Jack London"
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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"Imagine that you enter a parlor. You come late. When you arrive, others have long preceded you, and they are engaged in a heated discussion, a discussion too heated for them to pause and tell you exactly what it is about. In fact, the discussion had already begun long before any of them got there, so that no one present is qualified to retrace for you all the steps that had gone before. You listen for a while, until you decide that you have caught the tenor of the argument; then you put in your oar. Someone answers; you answer him; another comes to your defense; another aligns himself against you, to either the embarrassment or gratification of your opponent, depending upon the quality of your ally's assistance. However, the discussion is interminable. The hour grows late, you must depart. And you do depart, with the discussion still vigorously in progress."
Kenneth Burke
A parlor or a certain climbing forum?
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o-man
Trad climber
Paia,Maui,HI
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"But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he cannot learn, feel, change, grow or live. Chained by his servitude he is a slave who has forfeited all freedom. Only a person who risks is free. The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; and the realist adjusts the sails." William Arthur Ward
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perswig
climber
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" What part of go fukin climb the damned thing and find out are YOU not getting?"
-Khanom
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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"This is where if I had a d*ck I'd tell you to suck it" Betty White in the movie Lake Placid
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seth kovar
climber
Reno, NV
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I downgrade everything I do.
If I can't do it I insist that a hold has broken, deem it utter choss, and move on.
I'm also the raddest climber I've ever met. --weschrist
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Topic Author's Reply - May 6, 2011 - 11:18am PT
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"But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he cannot learn, feel, change, grow or live. Chained by his servitude he is a slave who has forfeited all freedom. Only a person who risks is free. The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; and the realist adjusts the sails." William Arthur Ward
If Supertopo had a "like" feature, I'd have to click "like" for this one.
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WBraun
climber
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^^^^^^^^^
Chained by his servitude he is a slave who has forfeited all freedom.
No one. Absolutely no one is free from servitude.
Every living entity is a servant, every single one.
There is absolutely no way any living entity can break free from servitude.
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ruppell
climber
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May 30, 2011 - 02:34am PT
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Anatoli Boukreev – “We go to the mountains to satisfy our own ambitions, not because others evaluate what we are doing.”
Should be a pledge before you can post here. or maybe it should read:
"WE GOT TO THE MOUNTAINS BECAUSE OTHERS EVALUATE US TO SATISFY THERE AMBITIONS"
Which one would you want to hear yourself say.
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Tom
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo CA
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May 30, 2011 - 05:59am PT
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I went into the Mountain Shop, because I wanted to be cool.
Now, then, you have to make sure you don't get your velocity mixed up with your veracity.
Neal Cassady
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Fixdpin
Trad climber
Springville,CA
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May 30, 2011 - 08:43am PT
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"Hey man, that ain't no 5.9!"
John Long after doing Thin Ice at the Needles, Giant Sequoia National Monument.
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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May 30, 2011 - 02:26pm PT
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Shit! Someone just cashed my reality check.
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rmuir
Social climber
From the Time Before the Rocks Cooled.
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Recently found on a note pad I used to keep handy for gathering favorite sayings. The attributes are all pretty accurate, I think.
>After careful research, it has been determined that a resource was completely
> ignored in the frenzy of Y2K testing and has now surfaced to haunt Sysadmin
> and Technical Support personnel. The EBCC/LIC(1) isn't Y2K compliant and
> should be handled with extreme care until a patch can be created and applied.
>
> (1) Equipment Between Computer and Chair/ Luser in Chair
That one's going in the excuse database. I just used it in an e-mail, and
one PHB said, "good that you're keeping up with this. when will it be taken
care of?" Blissfully clueless lot. Makes me wonder just _how_far I can take
acronyms.
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"Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate."
-- Dante Alighieri, "La Divina Commedia"
It's is not, it isn't ain't, and it's it's, not its, if you mean it is.
If you don't, it's its. Then too, it's hers. It isn't her's. It isn't
our's either. It's ours, and likewise yours and theirs.
-- Oxford University Press, Edpress News
"I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest."
-- Alexandre Dumas (fils)
Don't remember what you can infer.
-- Harry Tennant
"The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off"
-- Angela P. Elliott
aibohphobia n. A fear of palindromes.
S A T O R
A R E P O
T E N E T
O P E R A
R O T A S
On action alone be thy interest, never on its fruits.
-- ("Bhagavad Gita")
I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less
than half of you half as well as you deserve.
-- Bilbo Baggins, _Lord of the Rings_
NP: _Best of King's X_ - King's X / "QUIDQUID LATINE DICTUM SIT,
PROFUNDUM VIDITUR"
(Whatever is said in Latin appears profound) - from COL users mailing
list
Whatever is not nailed down is mine. Whatever I can pry up is not nailed down.
-- Collis P. Huntingdon, railroad tycoon
"That is the sort of arrant pedantry up with which I shall not put."
OS X: Because making Unix user-friendly was easier than debugging Windows
-- Simon Slavin, on a.f.c
"Speed is subsittute fo accurancy."
If you don't have a nasty obituary you probably didn't matter.
-- Freeman Dyson
"Doveriai no proveriai." (Trust but verify.)
-- Russian proverb, as quoted by Ronald Reagan
The differential of hi over ho is ho di hi minus hi d ho ho over ho ho.
Esse Quam Vederi -- that is the motto of the state of North Carolina, and for those of you who learned languages like Perl in High School instead of Latin, it means "To Be, Rather Than To Seem".
"The State of California has no business subsidizing intellectual
curiosity."
-- Ronald Reagan
"When in fear, and when in doubt;
Run in circles, scream and shout!"
-- Robert Heinlein
"A man, a plan, a canoe, pasta, heros, rajahs, a coloratura, maps, snipe, percale, macaroni, a gag, a banana bag, a tan, a tag, a banana bag again (or a camel), a crepe, pins, Spam, a rut, a Rolo, cash, a jar, sore hats, a peon, a canal-- Panama!"
-- Guy Steele Jr., CLTL2
"Some people are heroes. And some people jot down notes."
-- Terry Pratchett, The Truth
"The only cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."
-- Dorothy Parker
"Their incompetence robs them of the ability to realize it."
-- Kruger/Dunning, Journal of Personality & Social Psychology,
Dec. 1999, on incompetent people.
"I don't have any solution but I certainly admire the problem."
-- Ashleigh Brilliant
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character,
give him power.
-- Abraham Lincoln
If anyone disagrees with any statement I make, I am quite prepared not only to retract it, but also to deny under oath that I ever made it.
-- T. Lehrer
Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement...let me go upstairs and check.
-- M.C. Escher
The most dementing of all modern sins: the inability to distinguish excellence
from success.
-- David Hare
With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good
idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be dangerous
sitting under them as they fly overhead. [RFC1925 - section 2, subsection 3]
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
-- Elbert Hubbard
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin
Eisenhower was very nice,
Nixon was his only vice.
-- C. Degen
"There's no shame in giving in when you've got no alternative whatsoever."
-- Terry Pratchett, "The Dark Side of the Sun"
All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing...
-- Edmund Burke
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote."
--Benjamin Franklin, 1759
There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle.
-- G.K. Chesterton
There are only 10 types of people in this world: those who understand
binary, and those who don't.
-- Arne Buhmann
Prediction is difficult, especially of the future.
--- Niels Bohr
The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
-- Alvin Toffler
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
-- Vernon Schryver
Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.
--Hogfather, by Terry Pratchett
Sending >500KB attachments is forbidden by the Geneva Convention. Your country may be at risk if you fail to comply.
-- ntk
One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains
to be done.
-- Marie Curie
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Berlioz
Reality is what you bump into when you walk around with your eyes closed.
-- Raymond Fiest
In part of the 1700s, American currency was measured in bytes. Two bits is simply 25 cents, a quarter of a byte.
--AJR in asr
The truly paranoid administrator may wish to place motion detectors in the air ducts.
-- Practical UNIX & Internet Security, 2nd Edition
"The key words 'MUST', 'MUST NOT', 'DO', 'DON'T', 'REQUIRED', 'SHALL', 'SHALL NOT', 'SHOULD', 'SHOULD NOT', 'RECOMMENDED', 'MAY', 'MAY BE' and 'OPTIONAL' in this document do not mean anything."
-- RFC 3251
It taketh but short space to craze men of indifferent understanding with a new thing.
-- Mark Twain
Networks are like sewers... My job is to make sure your data goes away when you
flush, and to stop the rats climbing into your toilet through the pipes.
-- Network administration, as told by Tanuki
The Internet is totally out of control, impossible to map accurately, and being used
far beyond its original intentions. So far, so good.
-- Dr. Dobb's Journal May 1993
The mere act of drinking beer in an attempt to measure your tolerance is likely to affect your impression of how many beers you've drunk.
-- The Heineken uncertainty principle.
What did you do to the cat? It looks half-dead.
-- Schroedinger's wife
"Men are from Mars, women are from Venus, pop psychology is from Uranus."
-- Ben@lspace.org
"My place of work has certainly heard of karoshi. They think it's a good idea."
-- Dave Brown
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Fixdpin
Trad climber
Springville,CA
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"Shut up when you're talking to me!"
Israeli tank commander
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
-A community of hairless apes
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Jun 16, 2011 - 08:50pm PT
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“More than at any time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.”
—Woody Allen
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o-man
Social climber
Paia,Maui,HI
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Jun 16, 2011 - 09:43pm PT
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"Don't look at me in that tone of voice!"
Deke Cook
"If can,can
If no can, no can"
Pidgin Philosopher
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 14, 2011 - 12:00pm PT
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"every man dies, not every man lives" -William Wallace
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this just in
climber
north fork
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Jul 14, 2011 - 12:02pm PT
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"Sh#t, If it's going to be this kind of party I'm gonna stick my dick in the mashed potatoes."
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MisterE
Social climber
CA
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Jul 14, 2011 - 12:07pm PT
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The Revolution will not be motorized
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Jul 14, 2011 - 12:09pm PT
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“If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord.”
JS Bach
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Studly
Trad climber
WA
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Jul 14, 2011 - 12:11pm PT
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I could take a good look at a t-bone steak by sticking my head up a bull's ass, but I would rather take the butchers word on it.
Tommy boy
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Chango
Trad climber
norcal
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Jul 14, 2011 - 01:49pm PT
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“I have made an important discovery…that alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities , produces all the effects of intoxication. ” ~ Oscar Wilde
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justin01
Trad climber
sacramento
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Jul 14, 2011 - 02:08pm PT
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“I bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as ABC, hold up truth to your eyes.”
Thomas Paine, December 23, 1776
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neversummer
Trad climber
30 mins. from suicide USA
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Jul 14, 2011 - 02:41pm PT
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"In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is freedom, in water there is bacteria."
Ben Franklin.
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scuffy b
climber
dissected alluvial deposits, late Pleistocene
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Jul 15, 2011 - 08:02pm PT
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Got these off the radio today. I can't offer attribution.
"Inequity leads inevitably to iniquity."
"You can't be too careful when you're dealing with a hex."
This one was in reference to a McCullough chain saw.
The quotee had just explained that he'd torn the saw down to scrap and buried it in three different places.
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Bobert
Trad climber
boulder, Colorado
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Jul 15, 2011 - 08:12pm PT
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"Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter." Satchel Paige.
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couchmaster
climber
pdx
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Jul 15, 2011 - 08:39pm PT
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Crap, I was going to post that great Tom Higgins quote from one of the best threads on this site, the Frank Sacher thread (Tom posts as "Long Ago on Supertopo), but I did a search and saw I'd already posted it here earlier:-0
F*K it, one more time anyway:-)
...my small benediction: let us be most humbled, thankful and awestruck at the prize of consciousness, the sunny days on what we call rock and mountains with others we call friends, the noble globe itself only a dot in the vast swirl of matter and time, in the great physics of it all Frank pondered, the same which pounds and baffles each of us under a clear night sky. And there, looking up, perhaps I am not alone making a quiet vow to hold more tightly to good friendship and love before sleeping Frank’s sleep.
Tom Higgins"
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ncrockclimber
climber
NC
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Jul 15, 2011 - 10:24pm PT
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The stillness within stillness is not the true stillness; the true stillness is within motion.
Lao-Tsu
Less and less do you need to force things, until finally you arrive at non-action. When nothing is done, nothing is left undone.
Lao-Tsu
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom"
The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
There is only one success; to be able to spend your life in your own way.
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MH2
climber
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Jul 15, 2011 - 10:29pm PT
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Hops, hops, and more hops.
The Energizer Bunny
in an interview with Barbara Walters
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Anastasia
climber
hanging from an ice pick and missing my mama.
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Jul 15, 2011 - 10:34pm PT
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It was so cold that even the squirrels couldn't keep their nuts warm. (Marine Corps veteran R. Lee Ermey)
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Jul 16, 2011 - 03:01pm PT
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Cynic
"an idealist whose rose-colored glasses have been removed, snapped in two and stomped into the ground, immediately improving his vision."
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Jul 16, 2011 - 05:50pm PT
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hey there, say all.... awwww, shucks, i got a bunch of little favorite quotes, but most won't make much sense to many-a-folk.... :)
here's one, from a novel by a nifty ol' writer, that i know of:
Anquish now sought to trip-him-up and lay-him-low, and near as fast as a broken boot heel!
:) *need a hint? ;)
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LongAgo
Trad climber
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Jul 17, 2011 - 02:18am PT
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From a recent read, Lacuna, Barbara Kingsolver:
"The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know." I might add, even or especially with respect to ourselves.
"Lies are infinite in number and the truth so small and singular." Again, even to ourselves.
Tom Higgins
LongAgo
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davidji
Social climber
CA
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The winds of grace are always blowing, but we have to raise our sails. -- Sri Ramakrishna
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FRUMY
Trad climber
SHERMAN OAKS,CA
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"I GOT AMOUTH RIGHT?"
Weld_it.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Aug 14, 2011 - 10:17am PT
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Anderl Heckmair:
"I consider mountain climbing an absolutely egocentric activity; I could therefore never understand why one would want to set up rules for it. "In the mountains, freedom rules" is an old poacher's saying. Whether and how I use artificial means is my business. To climb in the cleanest and smoothest way possible - that was my desire. How others climb is their business, and nobody else has the right to interfere. Most people abide by rules because they want to be accepted. I was only truly content when I succeeded in completing a climb the way I had envisioned it. Naturally, there is satisfaction when a climb is acclaimed by the experts, but basically, this was not as important to me as the recognition by my friends."
Lynn Hill:
"It goes boys"
Toni Kurz:
"Ich kann nicht mehr"
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 20, 2011 - 04:42pm PT
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Things are to be used and people are to be loved, but the problem in today's world is people are being used and things are being loved.
anon
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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Aug 20, 2011 - 05:24pm PT
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"My once-keen analytical mind has become so dulled by endless hours of baking in the hot sun, thrashing about in tight chimneys, pulling at impossibly heavy loads.... so that now my mental state is comparable to that of a Peruvian Indian, well stoked on coca leaves..." — Warren Harding (1925-2002), Reflections on a broken down climber.
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o-man
Social climber
Paia,Maui,HI
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Aug 20, 2011 - 07:10pm PT
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Eighth Tao
The highest good is like water.
Water gives life to the ten thousand things and does not strive.
It flows in places that men reject and is like the Tao.
In dwelling, be close to the land.
In meditation, go deep into the heart.
In dealing with others, be gentle and kind.
In speech, be true.
In ruling, be just.
In business, be competent.
In action, watch the timing.
No fight: No blame.
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hobo_dan
Social climber
Minnesota
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Aug 28, 2011 - 10:21am PT
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things sure have changed since we got kicked out of high school
The ramones
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johnboy
Trad climber
Can't get here from there
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Aug 28, 2011 - 10:39pm PT
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Bud Lite? Must be a small party.
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Vosser
Trad climber
reno, NV
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Aug 28, 2011 - 11:45pm PT
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Life is hard! Especially when your a pussy.
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Aug 29, 2011 - 02:16am PT
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"I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life."
Gandhi
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Vegasclimber
Trad climber
Las Vegas, NV.
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Aug 29, 2011 - 02:39am PT
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My grandfather;
"If you always want to be employed, find the job that no one else wants to do, and do it better then everyone else."
Little did I know at the time that would translate into many years of packing parachutes for a living...
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Sep 18, 2011 - 12:23pm PT
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Anniversaries are pretty much just a way of bragging to the world that someone can put up with your sh#t for an extended period of time.
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Bldrjac
Ice climber
Boulder
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Sep 18, 2011 - 12:53pm PT
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"You'll never find enlightenment on a full stomach."
Doug Scott's reply to Greg Child when, during a FA of Shivling's East Pillar, they were running very low on food and fuel. Greg asked Doug what they would do when they totally ran out of food, fuel and were still stuck in the storm they were presently in............
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H
Mountain climber
there and back again
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Sep 18, 2011 - 08:35pm PT
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These are my own:
"one way of ruining a miracle is to try to figure it out"
"It is the risks we take in life which allows us to truly live, but it is the memories, not the risks, we choose to remember which can cripple or enhance the joys of the future"
"There is a little bit of "them" in all of us"
"Justifing your actions does not make them right"
This is my dads:
"Don't sweat the small stuff"
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Damn this looks high
Trad climber
Temecula, CA
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Sep 18, 2011 - 10:06pm PT
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Adventures not possessions.
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
-A community of hairless apes
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Sep 18, 2011 - 11:56pm PT
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"The difference between the right word and almost the right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug."
Twain
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ruppell
climber
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Sep 18, 2011 - 11:59pm PT
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To the victors goes the spoils
NOT TWAIN
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Captain...or Skully
climber
Where are you bound?
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Sep 19, 2011 - 12:50am PT
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"That jam's lousy, but at least it's awkward." ~ Donini
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steve shea
climber
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Sep 19, 2011 - 09:03am PT
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"It's so crowded, nobody goes anymore" Yogi Bera
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
-A community of hairless apes
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Sep 19, 2011 - 12:38pm PT
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The pen is mightier than the sword... OK, you take the pen and I'll take the sword.
Excellent.
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Sep 19, 2011 - 12:43pm PT
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Not a tear bedims the eye
that time and patience will not dry.
-Bret Harte
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tom Carter
Social climber
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Sep 20, 2011 - 01:19am PT
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"If ya wanna quite drinking coffee.....just keep drinking it"!
Dave Bircheff at the Grill in Tuolumne 1973.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Sep 20, 2011 - 02:06am PT
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"Hold my beer, watch this..."
Bubba
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Gary
climber
Desolation Row, Calif.
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Sep 28, 2011 - 11:47pm PT
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We carry a new world here, in our hearts. That world is growing this minute.
Buenaventura Durruti
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Dr.Sprock
Boulder climber
I'm James Brown, Bi-atch!
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Sep 28, 2011 - 11:53pm PT
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"you have to watch how you get"
very true philosphy from a book by william heat leats moon called blue highways,
anybody read it?
Blue Highways is an autobiographical book by William Least Heat-Moon, born William Trogdon.
In 1978, after separating from his wife and losing his job as a teacher, Moon, 38 at the time, decided to take an extended road trip around the United States, sticking to only the "Blue Highways." Heat-Moon had coined the term to refer to small, forgotten, out of the way roads connecting rural America (which were drawn in blue on the old style Rand McNally road atlas).
He outfits a green van with a bunk, a camping stove, a portable toilet and a copy of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass and John Neihardt's Black Elk Speaks. Referring to the Native American resurrection ritual, he christens the van "Ghost Dancing," and embarks on a three month soul-searching tour of the United States, wandering from small town to small town, often just because they have interesting names. The book chronicles the 13,000 mile journey and the people he meets along the way, as he steers clear of cities and interstates, avoiding fast food and exploring local American culture.
Well-researched and intriguing stories and historical facts are included about each area visited, as well as verbatim conversations with characters such as a born-again Christian hitchhiker, a teenage runaway, a boat builder, an Appalachian log cabin restorer, a Nevada prostitute, fishermen, a Hopi Native American medical student, owners of western saloons and remote country stores, a maple syrup farmer, and Chesapeake Bay island dwellers.
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dogtown
Trad climber
JackAssVille, Wyoming
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It’s hard to bitch but sometimes I still do, Life’s been good to me so far.
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Delhi Dog
climber
Good Question...
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"Everything in moderation...including moderation.
-Delhi Dog
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
-A community of hairless apes
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"When the music's over, turn out the lights."
a fine biotrope to live by
a fine epitaph, too (think I'll use it if I have a chance)
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WBraun
climber
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Asshole of the century quote:
Henry Kissinger -- "Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy."
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luggi
Trad climber
from the backseat of Jake& Elwood Blues car
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"If you don't know what it is....throw a rock at it"
Grandpa
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Love Betty White!
"If I had a d*ck, this is where I would tell you to suck it"
The movie Lake Placid, talking to the sheriff.
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hooblie
climber
from where the anecdotes roam
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"we're here to put a dent in the universe" -steve jobs
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 19, 2011 - 09:19am PT
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Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Schopenhauer
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MikeL
climber
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Oct 19, 2011 - 10:15am PT
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Climbers' quotes, some romantic, others ironic.
• What can this rock give you?. . . . Nothing. . . . and what will you hold in your hands on the Summit? I can tell you now: nothing. It’s all lunacy. (Reinhard Karl)
• [Mountaineering is] ‘the conquest of the useless’ (Lionel Terray)
• Many sages have said that a creative life requires . . . . [an] arena where men and women have risked all (John Long).
• I came to find my own mediocrity and that of the world intolerable. I recognized that I . . . was degenerate. . . . I realized that I was not a man in the full sense of the word, . . . and the realization was so bitter that I often wept. . . . If I undertook The Shroud, it was precisely for that reason: to submit myself and my life to God’s purpose . . . . it was, of course, a wholly egotistical act (Ivan Ghirardini).
• I was strong. I could have done anything. I seethed with desire. Believing in my self-importance, I stroked and blessed my ego. Ambition was so precious. I worshipped it and stole for it. I rationalized every evil thing I ever did by weighing it against my ambition. I wanted to be a god without the boredom of sainthood (Mark Twight).
• I used to be afraid that I would die young but after living for a while I got scared that I wouldn’t (Mark Twight).
• I find I want this loss of control. I want to feel very small in very deep water. I don’t want to know what I’m doing, but to learn it (Peter Croft).
• Deprivation [Mt. Hunter, Alaska] taught me about the existence of this mystic path in the mountains . . . . How can I be tired while climbing on the mountain when I have become the mountain? I have searched within myself through both passive and active meditation, for the tools to open this ‘door’ whenever I will it. I still search (Mark Twight).
• The whole notion of ‘deep play’—the gambling theory of extreme risk taking when the gambler stands to lose far more than he could ever possibly win—may well be an apt description of some levels of climbing, but playing the game in reality now seemed a conceited and ridiculous enterprise (Joe Simpson).
• When we undeniably see that we create our own misery, we stop. The force generated by this insight changes anyone. Even Mark. His internal struggles for personal freedom, outwardly manifested through his climbing, eventually transformed Dr. Doom into Dr. Om. (Brian Eno about Mark Twight)
• After my ascent, and typical of other climbers before me, the accomplishment and rite of passage were partly why I could bow out of the central camp scene [a climber’s camp and hangout in Yosemite Valley] and its infinite loop of harder and harder climbing . . . . Perhaps thus enlightened, I turned to new thoughts and still deeper ways of looking at my life, as I grew older (Peter Haan).
• My whole psychology believed it was right to cultivate risks to achieve success. This led me to take terrible chances. Because I was soloing, in my self-centered world I could talk myself into it. Without being conscious of it, I behaved as if summits were worth dying for. I don’t buy that anymore. (Joe Beyer)
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Oct 19, 2011 - 10:20am PT
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Funny thing about Twight, he developed the "Dr. Doom" persona but never learned how to rock climb.
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badcom
Gym climber
Ewing, NJ
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Oct 19, 2011 - 12:36pm PT
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"Of every one hundred men they send me, ten should not be here. Eighty are nothing but targets. Nine are real fighters, they make the battle. Ah, but the one, he is a warrior, and he will bring the others back"
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 22, 2011 - 02:56am PT
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Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Oct 22, 2011 - 10:18am PT
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(Brian Eno about Mark Twight Really? Brian Eno?
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
-A community of hairless apes
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Oct 22, 2011 - 10:41am PT
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Thanks again, RM, I'll take it (once again, again) to heart. ;)
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Social climber
Retired to Appalachia
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Oct 22, 2011 - 10:58am PT
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"I may be wrong, but I'm never in doubt."
-unknown
"Everything in moderation, including moderation."
-me
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
-A community of hairless apes
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Oct 23, 2011 - 11:52am PT
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re: favorite (ludicrous) quotes
"The President has been a failure when it comes to foreign policy."
Michele Bachmann, U.S Republican Presidential Laughingstock (2011)
Face the Nation, 23 oct 2011
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hooblie
climber
from where the anecdotes roam
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Oct 23, 2011 - 02:21pm PT
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"it never dawned on me till the first day" - yup, that's the difference
between high flying conceptualization and ground truthing
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
-A community of hairless apes
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Oct 24, 2011 - 01:21pm PT
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"We are the Animal Kingdom's way of knowing its evolved drives and feelings reflected in human terms; and because we speak – of expressing this reflection in words. In words."
a rockclimbing evolutionist, 1996
This might even be better:
"We are the cat's way or the dog's way or the chimp's way or the honey badger's way or the sea lion's way or the dolphin's way of knowing its evolved drives and feelings reflected in human terms; and because we speak – of expressing this reflection in words. In words." HFCS
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Oct 27, 2011 - 03:44pm PT
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"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room." (President Merkin Muffley (Dr Strangelove))
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noone
Trad climber
mountain tornado alley
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Oct 28, 2011 - 03:50pm PT
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From "Horrible Bosses"
"I'm a drag racer"
"In a Prius?"
"I don't win a lot"
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DanaB
climber
CT
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Oct 28, 2011 - 04:56pm PT
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"Those are my principles. And if you don't like them, I have others."
"No, we have an agreement. The flies don't practice law, and I don't walk on the ceiling."
Groucho Marx.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Oct 28, 2011 - 05:03pm PT
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"People ask me why I drink so much. It’s because of a morbid fear of dehydration."
"I don't know why they call me working-class. As far as I know I'v never worked a day in my life."
"There are two kinds of climbers... smart ones and dead ones."
Thatchers secretary: "Mr Whillans, Mr Whillans. Your flies are undone”,
Don: ”Tha need not have worried, yer know. Dead birds never fall out the bleedin’ nest!”
— Don Whillans
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Oct 28, 2011 - 06:17pm PT
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Nancy Astor was a native Virginian who became Britain’s first woman member of the House of Commons. In the 1930’s she headed a clique in the House of Commons that found something to admire in Hitler’s Germany. Churchill described an Astorite as an appeaser "who feeds the crocodile hoping that it will eat him last." One time shortly thereafter, Churchill found himself at Cliveden, the Astor mansion.
After dinner Lady Astor presided over the pouring of coffee. When Churchill came by, she glared and said. "Winston, if I were your wife, I’d put poison in your coffee." "Nancy," Churchill replied to the acid-tongued woman, "if I were your husband, I’d drink it."
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pud
climber
Sportbikeville & Yucca brevifolia
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Oct 28, 2011 - 07:15pm PT
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Yeah, it's a total sandbag -Todd Gordon
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Hilt
Social climber
Utah
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Oct 28, 2011 - 07:18pm PT
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What lies build, fools believe. Don't play with fools.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Oct 29, 2011 - 04:46am PT
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"Assuming that one wants to praise at all, there’s a refined and at the same time noble self-control which always gives praise only where one does not agree:—in other cases one would be really praising oneself, something that contradicts good taste—naturally, a self-control which provides a good opportunity and provocation for one to be constantly misunderstood. In order to permit oneself this real luxury of taste and morality, one must not live among spiritual fools, but rather among people whose misunderstandings and false ideas are still amusing for their sophistication—or one will have to pay dearly for it!—“He is praising me: thus, he admits I’m right”—this asinine conclusion ruins half of life for us hermits, for it brings the asses into our neighbourhood and our friendship."
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Trusty Rusty
Social climber
Tahoe area
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Oct 29, 2011 - 04:51am PT
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"Jesus built my car, its a love affair"
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FRUMY
Trad climber
SHERMAN OAKS,CA
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Nov 15, 2011 - 08:15pm PT
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"Be thankful we don't get all the government we pay for."
WILL ROGERS
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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Nov 15, 2011 - 08:31pm PT
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My Maserati does 185.
I lost my license, now I don't drive.
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divad
Trad climber
wmass
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Nov 15, 2011 - 09:22pm PT
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I know something about everything.
I know everything about nothing.
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hellroaring
Trad climber
San Francisco
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Nov 15, 2011 - 09:28pm PT
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Saw this written on a bathroom wall:
"it's hard to imagine what you're missing
when you're missing your imagination"
(the circle A anarchy symbol drawn right beneath)
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FRUMY
Trad climber
SHERMAN OAKS,CA
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Nov 16, 2011 - 11:29am PT
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"A fool and his money are soon elected."
Will Rogers
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Social climber
Retired to Appalachia
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Nov 16, 2011 - 12:05pm PT
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"Everything in moderation -- including moderation."
-Sierra Ledge Rat
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Social climber
Retired to Appalachia
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Nov 16, 2011 - 12:06pm PT
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"I may be wrong, but I'm never in doubt."
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
-A community of hairless apes
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"If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?"
Chuck Palahniuk, novelist
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Dave Davis
Social climber
Seattle, WA
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Dec 11, 2011 - 01:06am PT
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"work is the curse of the drinking class"
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ruppell
climber
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Dec 11, 2011 - 02:33am PT
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Three things I know to be tru
Is four things halve to be false
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Dec 11, 2011 - 02:38am PT
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"I was only wrong once, and that's when I thought I was wrong."
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Srbphoto
climber
Kennewick wa
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Jan 21, 2012 - 06:12pm PT
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"all rich people buy politicians, they aren't very expensive"
Jim Cramer
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Beautiful_Corn
Trad climber
Brooklyn Park, MD
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Jan 31, 2012 - 08:38am PT
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Found in a bathroom stall:
"She offered her honor
so I honored her offer
and all night long
I was on her and off her."
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Leggs
Sport climber
Home Sweet Home, Tucson AZ
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Jan 31, 2012 - 08:58am PT
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"If a woman tells you she's twenty and looks sixteen, she's twelve. If she tells you she's twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she's damn near forty"
Chris Rock
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Jan 31, 2012 - 09:55am PT
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"Mexican culture has a deep conviction that nothing can be proven except that it be made to bleed. Virgins, bulls, men. Ultimately God himself."
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Jan 31, 2012 - 11:38am PT
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A slogan for a new age: "Clean up the world. Exterminate all the bolts"
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jan 31, 2012 - 11:39am PT
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"Not guilty, yer honour!"
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plund
Social climber
OD, MN
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Jan 31, 2012 - 01:36pm PT
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If you tell the truth, you never have to remember your story -- my Pops
I f'in swear too much -- my buddy Matt
That looks like a dick, only smaller -- one of my "friends", to me, whilst side-by-side @ the urinals(I think during a softball tourney)
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splitter
Trad climber
Hodad surfing the galactic plane
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Feb 20, 2012 - 03:43pm PT
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"John Wayne didn't wear lycra!" Ron Kauk
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divad
Trad climber
wmass
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Feb 20, 2012 - 05:01pm PT
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Don't ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies
Lynyrd Skynyrd
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cintune
climber
Midvale School for the Gifted
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Feb 20, 2012 - 05:15pm PT
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"Legitimacy is just an existential state defined by whoever you're dealing with. Unless you define it for them first."
Nans Ludwig
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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Feb 20, 2012 - 05:19pm PT
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Also in a bathroom stall, I guess adopted from an old protest quip:
Split beaver, not atoms.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Feb 27, 2012 - 04:16pm PT
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"Climbing is not a battle with the elements, nor against the law of gravity. It's a battle against oneself.", Walter Bonatti.
"You have to train your ropes better. Ropes are like dogs. Think consistent reinforcement of good behavior. New ropes need a lot of work. My rope is usuallys well behaved. However, Emily's rope is always getting itself tied up in knots. I think she neglected it when it was young." — Sue Hopkins.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Feb 27, 2012 - 04:17pm PT
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"Climbers have no sense of smell." — Conrad Anker's mother.
"I wouldn't go there if I were you. They steal from the store and they smell and they wear rags and even piss right outside their tents. I tell you, it's like a leper colony, that place." — Yosemite Lodge bellman trying to dissuade a girl from visiting Camp 4, 1962.
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ImplicitD
Trad climber
Boise
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Feb 27, 2012 - 04:48pm PT
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All generalizations are false, including this one. Twain
There are old climbers and bold climbers but no old bold climbers.
When in doubt, run it out.
Cant do, then teach. Cant teach, then teach the teachers.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Feb 27, 2012 - 05:10pm PT
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Not bad!
"I couldn't catch a ball or any of that stuff. I could do only what required brute stupidity." — Warren Harding (1925-2002).
Ever tried
ever failed
try again
fail better...
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Feb 28, 2012 - 02:18am PT
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"he bowls ... overhand"
-from a dos equis commercial
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Srbphoto
climber
Kennewick wa
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Feb 28, 2012 - 09:38am PT
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I thought they were fairy guns
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
-A race of corn eaters
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Mar 19, 2012 - 12:38am PT
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"There is no way of knowing where the next discovery will come from, what dream of the mind's eye will remake the world. These dreams begin as impossibilities."
Carl Sagan, Cosmos
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Jun 15, 2012 - 02:20pm PT
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"if you're not at the table, you're on the menu"
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Gary
climber
"My god - it's full of stars!"
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Jun 15, 2012 - 05:38pm PT
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All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
T E Lawrence
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ELM !
climber
Near Boston
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Jun 15, 2012 - 08:13pm PT
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"don't get into a pissing match with a Skunk"
Dad
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WBraun
climber
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Jun 15, 2012 - 08:16pm PT
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Americans are so stupid they drive their cars to go somewhere to walk or hike.
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laughingman
Mountain climber
Seattle WA
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Jun 15, 2012 - 08:26pm PT
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"one 'dies of thirst just when the palm trees have appeared on the horizon."
The Alchemist
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
merced, california
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Jun 15, 2012 - 08:31pm PT
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Rocks make no compromise for sex....rock climbing is not like some sports, where it is made easier for women; or sports like, say, softball, which is only baseball for soft people. On a rock, everything is equal.--Beverly Johnson
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
merced, california
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Jun 15, 2012 - 09:02pm PT
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Prefatory note to The Dangerous Book for Boys, C. & H. Iggulden
"Don't worry about genius and don't worry about not being clever. Trust rather to hard work, perseverance, and determination. The best motto for a long march is 'Don't grumble. Plug on.'
"You hold you future in your own hands. Never waver in this belief. Don't swagger. The boy who swaggers--like the man who swaggers--has little else that he can do. He is a cheap-Jack crying his own paltry wares. It is the empty tin that rattles most. Be honest. Be loyal. Be kind. Remember that the hardest thing to acquire is the faculty of being unselfish. As a quality it is one of the finest attributes of manliness.
"Love the sea, the ringing beach and the open downs.
"Keep clean, body and mind.'"
Sir Frederick Treves, Bart, KCVO, CB, Sergeant in Ordinary to HM the King, Surgeon in Ordinary to HRH Prince of Wales, written at 6 Wimpole Street, Cavendish Square, London, on September 2, 1903, on the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Boy's Own Paper
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DanaB
climber
CT
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Jun 15, 2012 - 10:37pm PT
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There's always free cheese in a mouse trap.
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
-A race of corn eaters
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Jun 15, 2012 - 10:44pm PT
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Love many, trust few, do harm to none.
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Capt.
climber
some eastside hovel
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Jun 15, 2012 - 11:38pm PT
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"He has a trophy wife...Obviously it wasn't first place"
Larry the cable guy
"She was convulsing like an epileptic at a strobe light convention"
Alec Baldwin
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Jun 16, 2012 - 12:06am PT
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"refugees in winter dress/skating home on thin ice/from the Apocalypse."
Verandah Porche, describing her contemporaries in the LNS
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Srbphoto
climber
Kennewick wa
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Jun 23, 2012 - 12:34pm PT
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Money makes the monkey dance
"Money makes the monkey dance," Angel Perales told an FBI informant, according to court documents.
Perales, Mayor David Silva and Councilman Osvaldo Conde (from Cudahy)were arrested Friday and charged with soliciting and accepting cash bribes totaling $17,000 to support the opening of a medical marijuana dispensary.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
merced, california
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Jun 23, 2012 - 01:26pm PT
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"Kirk is gonna be leading this climb cuz he's bad-ass."--Captain Kirk's Number Two, James :)
cool vid!
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wivanoff
Trad climber
CT
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Jun 23, 2012 - 03:16pm PT
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Good judgment comes from experience.
Experience comes from bad judgment.
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Plaidman
Trad climber
South Slope of Mt. Tabor, Portland, Oregon, USA
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Jun 23, 2012 - 07:35pm PT
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Why is patience a virtue?
Because not many people have it!
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2 l l
Sport climber
Rancho Verga, CA
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Jun 23, 2012 - 08:09pm PT
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I've Been Listening to my Gut since I Was 14 Years Old, and Frankly Speaking, I've Come to the Conclusion That My Gut Has Sh#t for Brains. ~ Nick Hornby
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Jun 23, 2012 - 08:23pm PT
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"I guess I'm not the man she was looking for
I'm just the man she found"
Dave Edmunds
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 24, 2012 - 01:13am PT
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“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” - Plato
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Jun 26, 2012 - 05:43pm PT
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Oscar Wilde
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 27, 2012 - 09:49pm PT
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"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike, rather than those who think differently." Nietzsche
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FRUMY
Trad climber
SHERMAN OAKS,CA
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Jun 29, 2012 - 06:53pm PT
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THAT MAN WILL FIGHT US EVERY DAY & EVERY HOUR TILL THE END OF THE WAR.
General Longstreet -- speaking of General U. S. Grant.
Spoken to southern officers (on the day Grant was given the army of the Potomac) who still thought they might win the war.
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Jun 29, 2012 - 09:03pm PT
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"Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force.
Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."
- Geo. Washington
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Don Paul
Big Wall climber
Colombia, South America
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Jun 30, 2012 - 03:31pm PT
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Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
... In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
Invictus, William Ernest Henley, 1875
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
merced, california
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Jun 30, 2012 - 03:46pm PT
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"Yer still gonna die!!!"
---Most of us at one time or another.
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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Jul 10, 2012 - 04:37pm PT
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Stolen from another:
Some people think about all the great things they could have done and feel bad.
I think about all the bad things I could have done and feel great.
Tyrus Bachar
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Gary
climber
"My god - it's full of stars!"
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Jul 10, 2012 - 06:40pm PT
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There are only two roads, victory for the working class, freedom, or victory for the fascists which means tyranny. Both combatants know what's in store for the loser.
Buenaventura Durruti
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PAUL SOUZA
Trad climber
Central Valley, CA
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Jul 10, 2012 - 08:10pm PT
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"Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand." - Mark Twain
"What is to give light, must endure burning" - Dr. Viktor Frankl
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DanaB
climber
CT
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Jul 16, 2012 - 10:12pm PT
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"It was not a bomb. It was an explosive device."
Mayor Wilson Goode of Phialdelphia, after a bomb was dropped on the MOVE headquarters in West Philadelphia, 1985. Eleven dead, over 60 homes burned to the ground.
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paranoid-android
climber
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Jul 16, 2012 - 10:22pm PT
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Attitude Determines Altitude
Maintain Attitude, Maintain Altitude
Good Attitude Gains Great Altitude
~yours truly
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kennyt
climber
Woodfords,California
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Jul 16, 2012 - 10:25pm PT
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" you can change it but it's gonna be different"
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The Dude
climber
Truckee, CA
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Aug 30, 2012 - 04:42am PT
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"A man with a bible is more dangerous than a man with a gun"
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Aug 30, 2012 - 05:08am PT
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up is arbitrary.
friction is you bitchen with gravity.
--Norwegian
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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"You know too much about baseball to be a lawyer."--Justin Beiber in new Eastwood flick, Trouble With the Curve
"Hard work never hurt anybody--why take chances?"--Edgar Bergen
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Sep 12, 2012 - 12:59pm PT
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"In the mountaineer are bound up the poet, the painter, the thinker, the citizen; in him are a heart open to all fine feelings, a mind thirsty for all knowledge, an observer who on the mountains sees far into a thousand things around him and within him that most men do not see, and which serve as food for his mind and reveal a stimulating and illuminating line of thought to others. In him, too, there is the writer."--Edmondo de Amicis, speaking of Guido Rey specifically in the last sentence, I'm sure; and maybe, maybe giving non-writing climbers some slack in the first
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WyoRockMan
Trad climber
Flank of the Bighorns
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Sep 12, 2012 - 01:49pm PT
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"My beard has nothing to do with function or a lack of initiative. It's pure style. It says 'take note, squares. This is how it's done.'"
That popped out of my mouth one day as my boss was chiming in about a new "grooming" policy.
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Vegasclimber
Trad climber
Las Vegas, NV.
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Sep 12, 2012 - 02:13pm PT
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"You can find a thousand reasons not to lead a pitch. The trick is, to find the one reason to lead it anyways."
- Wendell Broussard
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Sep 12, 2012 - 02:21pm PT
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"Verandah Porche?"
"Verandah hell am I?"--many of us at one time or other
Yes, I'm going back thru the thread. Priceless!
"I like your threads, dude! Stylin'!"--Mtn. Project to Taco
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michaeld
Sport climber
Sacramento
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Sep 12, 2012 - 02:31pm PT
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"I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my number, so call me baby."
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Sep 12, 2012 - 05:34pm PT
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"manless climbing"--Maggie
Maggie gave us this phrase, useless as it is. :)
Climbing is climbing is climbing, indicates G. STEIN.
"Maggie's drawers" on that one, lady.
and
"There's no there there."--G. STEIN
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Synchronicity
Trad climber
British Columbia, Canada
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Sep 12, 2012 - 08:48pm PT
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"I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my number, so call me baby."
Haven't you heard its supposed to be:
"I just met you, and I am crazy, I've got your number, I'll stalk you daily"
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Don Paul
Big Wall climber
Colombia, South America
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Sep 12, 2012 - 09:03pm PT
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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure. ~ Helen Keller
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splitter
Trad climber
Hodad, surfing the galactic plane
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Sep 12, 2012 - 09:11pm PT
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"The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation." - Pearl S. Buck
edit: Don Paul - i like that HK quote, she should know, eh! Thnx
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BASE104
Social climber
An Oil Field
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Sep 12, 2012 - 09:26pm PT
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"It's storming like crazy! We gotta go get on the Route Major now!"
-Walt Shipley
We were too late. It was avalanching like crazy when we made it over there all drunk in the dark.
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splitter
Trad climber
Hodad, surfing the galactic plane
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Sep 13, 2012 - 09:42am PT
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"We will have plenty of time to reminisce once we're dead. We are all business now, ain't got no time to waste!" ~ Splitter
Hah!
Lol!
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10b4me
Ice climber
dingy room at the Happy boulders hotel
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Sep 13, 2012 - 10:35am PT
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"summit or die, either way I win"- Rob Slater
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10b4me
Ice climber
dingy room at the Happy boulders hotel
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Sep 13, 2012 - 10:40am PT
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"Its a good day to Die."
Klingon Proverb
Actually, Crazy Horse said that at Custers Last Stand
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Don Paul
Big Wall climber
Colombia, South America
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Sep 13, 2012 - 11:04am PT
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I can't believe someone is quoting Pearl S Buck. One of my favorite books is The Good Earth, full of wisdom on every page. Copied an audio version from the library, have listened to it at least 5 times now. It's such an inspiring story.
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cliffhanger
Trad climber
California
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Sep 13, 2012 - 11:21am PT
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Hoka hey! (It's a good day to die.)
Sioux warriors shouted this when going into battle.
Read: Black Elk Speaks and Lame Deer: Seeker of Visions
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Leggs
Sport climber
A true CA girl, who landed in the desert...
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Sep 13, 2012 - 11:56am PT
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“Sit, be still, and listen,
because you're drunk
and we're at
the edge of the roof.”
― Rumi
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 13, 2012 - 12:19pm PT
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'Its a good day to die.'. I thought that was Henry the V. Lol. I guess a lot of people have said it.
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The Call Of K2 Lou
climber
Squamish
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Sep 13, 2012 - 12:44pm PT
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Always been a fan of T.E. Lawrence (AKA Lawrence of Arabia):
"Those who dream by night, in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that all was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, and make it possible."
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splitter
Trad climber
Hodad, surfing the galactic plane
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Sep 13, 2012 - 12:52pm PT
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I can't believe someone is posting Pearl S. Buck.
That be me!
What an incredible woman! Over fifty novels. And numerous other phenomenal accomplishments! I would be content to have accomplished 1% of what she did! She won the Pulitzer Prize that year (1932) for "The Good Earth"
"Inspiring" indeed!
Worth repeating!
"The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation!" ~ Pearl S. Buck
edit: btw, She was the living embodiment of that quote! Just check out her life & accomplishments on wiki for an example! Her Chinese name was Sai Zhenzhu (beautiful name).
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Sep 13, 2012 - 02:09pm PT
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"Det här är mina skogar, fast jag äger dom inte".
"Jag följer fågelstigarna"
Nitahå-Jussi.
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WyoRockMan
Trad climber
Flank of the Bighorns
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Sep 13, 2012 - 02:13pm PT
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"A life without cause is a life without effect." - Barbarella
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splitter
Trad climber
Hodad, surfing the galactic plane
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Sep 13, 2012 - 02:50pm PT
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"He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not." ~ Isaiah
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Gary
Social climber
Monza by the streetlight
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Sep 13, 2012 - 02:55pm PT
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No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man. -- Heraclitus
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Sep 13, 2012 - 03:03pm PT
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Hej, Marlow, jag også följer fågelstigarna.
Could you introduce me to Jussi?
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 13, 2012 - 03:16pm PT
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"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!". Upton Sinclair
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splitter
Trad climber
Hodad, surfing the galactic plane
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Sep 13, 2012 - 04:09pm PT
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this one sounded like it was well worth investigating, so i gave it my best shot...
"At either end of the social spectrum lies a leisure class." ~ Eric Beck
edit: i dropped this quote on one of my psych professors during class one day, and she responded, "NO THERE IS NOT"! So I ask her, "Have ya ever been to Camp Four? lol
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Sep 13, 2012 - 04:19pm PT
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Reilly
Nitahå-Jussi was said to be the last wanderer at Finnskogen. He knew the woods well and took a job where he found it, when he needed it. He lived and worked for a while in the US, but returned to Sweden to take over the farm after his father's death. Someone had illegally taken over the farm and years of juridical trouble started. In the film "Finnskog and trollskap" we are following Jussi. The film made him "famous", as did the book that was written about him. The book carried his own name. He was still active as an old man - as you see from the picture. The film "Finnskog and trollskap" has finally reached dvd and is now to be bought.
In the film I can also see my great grandfather Lauritz who was among the men who waited at the border for the Swedes in 1905. He was a person worth his own film. A lot of stories are told about him.
Et annet sitat fra Jussi er at "Det er et knep ved alt" - med andre ord alt har sin løsning bare du finner knepet - så også i klatringen.... Lol...
I will check out Crusoe of Lonesome Lake by Leland Stowe.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Sep 13, 2012 - 04:27pm PT
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Marlow, takk. You would love Crusoe of Lonesome Lake by Leland Stowe.
I just checked Amazon and there are only a few available at big bucks.
A pity as it deserves a re-issue. I guess I should take care of my copy.
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nutjob
Gym climber
Berkeley, CA
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Sep 13, 2012 - 04:29pm PT
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Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose
(Kris Kristofferson & Fred Foster, but Janis Joplin sang it best)
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Gary
Social climber
Monza by the streetlight
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Sep 13, 2012 - 05:09pm PT
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There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane, he had to fly them. If he flew them, he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to, he was sane and had to. Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle.
"That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed.
"It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed.
"They're trying to kill me," Yossarian told him calmly.
"No one's trying to kill you," Clevinger cried.
"Then why are they shooting at me?" Yossarian asked.
"They're shooting at everyone," Clevinger answered. "They're trying to kill everyone."
"And what difference does that make?"
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Sep 13, 2012 - 05:47pm PT
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Yo Nutjob,
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose
(Kris Kristofferson & Fred Foster, but Janis Joplin sang it best)
Funny you mention that one. The band that played for our Russian language school 'graduation' party in Leningrad in 1973, had been banned from performing for soviet audiences for singing that very lyric!!
Seemed strange then, and makes no more sense to me now.....
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Don Paul
Big Wall climber
Colombia, South America
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Sep 13, 2012 - 06:35pm PT
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Rumi .... who is that guy, anyway? One of the inventors of facebook? If Mark Zuckerberg isnt paying him, he should be.
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rbolton
Social climber
The home for...
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Sep 13, 2012 - 06:44pm PT
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"So it goes..."
Kurt Vonnegut
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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Sep 13, 2012 - 07:35pm PT
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"It seemed like a good idea at the time."
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Sep 14, 2012 - 04:41pm PT
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"A house built on granite and strong foundations, not even the onslaught of pouring rain, gushing torrents, and strong winds will be able to pull down.
Some people have written the story of my life representing it as truth, what in fact derives from ignorance, error, or envy; but they cannot shake the truth from its place, even if they attempt to make others believe it."
Tafari Makonnen
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Sep 14, 2012 - 08:54pm PT
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"There are only two stories in all of literature-a man takes a jouney,
a stranger comes to town." - Tolstoi
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Sep 14, 2012 - 09:42pm PT
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"the essence of first-hand experience is our most immediate index when we ask one of life's hardest questions: What can I honestly know?"--Mike Borghoff, Moments of Crisis
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ruppell
climber
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Sep 14, 2012 - 11:29pm PT
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Since there seems to be some Vonnegut fans here:
If I were a younger man, I would write a history of human stupidity; and I would climb to the top of Mount McCabe and lie down on my back with my history for a pillow; and I would take from the ground some of the blue-white poison that makes statues of men; and I would make a statue of myself, lying on my back, grinning horribly, and thumbing my nose at You Know Who.
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climbski2
Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
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Sep 14, 2012 - 11:42pm PT
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You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? And if you greet only your own people, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
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ruppell
climber
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Sep 15, 2012 - 12:06am PT
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Sully
A dig at I Sit and Look Out? Kurt sure liked amber
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber.
Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse V
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nutjob
Gym climber
Berkeley, CA
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Sep 18, 2012 - 05:01pm PT
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There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.
I thought this was pretty funny :)
I would not personally throw out Atlas Shrugged from the childhood reading list. Rather I think it should be a mandatory high school read with lots of directed discussion and debate to explore concepts of what government should be, the balance of personal freedom and responsibility, the morality of creating something of value, choosing the lesser evil when prioritizing how a system can be defended against exploiters (e.g. freeloaders at either end of the financial spectrum), the selfish benefits of social consciousness and societal contribution as they relate to our personal well-being, etc.
I think there is a rich world of realities to be teased out of these messy issues, as endlessly featured as a graphic representation of a mandelbrot set. Heavy-handed acceptance or rejection of the world presented by Ayn Rand seem to me equally flawed. Perhaps the biggest genius of her work, whether intended or not, is the degree to which it facilitates exploration of central issues in our lives and society that don't seem to be sufficiently explored in our schools or discussed in our media.
Instead we get this dumbed down dichotomy of "Atlas Shrugged is great!" or "That's a lame fairy tale for capitalist pigs!" and a great learning lesson and opportunity for all to come together is missed.
But the quote above is still funny.
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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Sep 18, 2012 - 07:11pm PT
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A "clear word" and a benevolent, pointing out the better course, seems powerless today; world events pass all such over with brutal disregard. But let us hold fast to the anti-diabolic faith, that mankind has after all a “keen learning,” and that words born of one’s own striving may do it good and not perish from its heart.
— Thomas Mann
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Sep 18, 2012 - 09:50pm PT
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"I spent most of my money and women and whiskey; the rest, I just wasted."
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
-A race of corn eaters
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Sep 19, 2012 - 03:17pm PT
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Sam Harris,
"The freedom to think out loud on certain topics, without fear of being hounded into hiding or killed, has already been lost. And the only forces on earth that can recover it are strong, secular governments that will face down charges of blasphemy with scorn. No apologies necessary. Muslims must learn that if they make belligerent and fanatical claims upon the tolerance of free societies, they will meet the limits of that tolerance."
http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/on-the-freedom-to-offend-an-imaginary-god
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10b4me
Ice climber
dingy room at the Happy boulders hotel
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Sep 19, 2012 - 03:33pm PT
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if you're not living on the edge, you're taking up to much space-anon
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Sep 24, 2012 - 12:09pm PT
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"Welcome to the Cote d'Azur. The work is done, the money is made, it's all free play time now."--If Wishes Were Horses, Francine Pascal
"As for the [French] Yellow Pages, even the French can't figure them out."
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 16, 2012 - 02:32pm PT
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage—to move in the opposite direction. (Einstein)
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scuffy b
climber
heading slowly NNW
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Oct 16, 2012 - 02:50pm PT
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There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.
Michel de Montaigne
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Oct 16, 2012 - 03:22pm PT
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Slack...dipsh#t.--Ron Kauk to Werner
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 15, 2012 - 11:27am PT
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'It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.'
Aristotle
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J.Haze
Sport climber
Ohio
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Nov 15, 2012 - 12:59pm PT
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Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. - Helen Keller
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splitter
Trad climber
Cali Hodad, surfing the galactic plane
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Nov 15, 2012 - 01:10pm PT
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speaking of ^^ HK, here is my favorite quote of hers ...
"I always knew He was there, but I didn't know His name." ~ Helen Keller
Priceless!
edit: HK was blind and deaf (i know, pc is 'hearing impaired') and she was responding to a braille teachers (she learned braille later on) sharing the Gospel message with her!
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Nov 15, 2012 - 03:55pm PT
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"John Gummer is the biggest shitbag I have ever met"
The word shitbag was created after Norwegian minister Torbjørn Berntsen, the lip from Grorud, had told the English press that the English minister of the environment John Gummer was a "drittsekk". The Norwegian word "drittsekk" was translated to shitbag.
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FRUMY
Trad climber
SHERMAN OAKS,CA
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Nov 15, 2012 - 05:04pm PT
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" When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are going to kill him again. "
MIKE TYSON
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DanaB
climber
CT
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Nov 15, 2012 - 06:20pm PT
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If I died with money in the bank, I would consider myself a failure.
Errol Flynn
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labrat
Trad climber
Nevada City, CA
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Nov 15, 2012 - 06:22pm PT
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The good thing about science is that it's true even if people don't believe in it.
No idea who said it first but would like to know.
Erik
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MissJ
Social climber
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Nov 15, 2012 - 09:06pm PT
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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Mark Twain
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 21, 2012 - 11:13am PT
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Leonard Cohen:
Ring the bells that still can ring....forget your perfect offering -
there is a crack in everything....that's how the light gets in.
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ruppell
climber
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Nov 21, 2012 - 12:21pm PT
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“I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.”
James Joyce
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 21, 2012 - 02:07pm PT
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Never up, never in.--a golfer's take on the Playboy Philosophy
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Fossil climber
Trad climber
Atlin, B. C.
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Back when I was starting the new Yosemite X-C school, I tried to hire some Norwegian students from U of Cal. at Berkeley as weekend instructors to work with Ned Gillette and Jim Speck. I couldn’t find anyone else available in CA with that skill. But a stubborn Customs/Immigration bureaucrat blocked us for a time, insisting that a downhill ski instructor was a ski instructor, and there were plenty of those. I finally won after multiple frustrating trips to SF, but his attitude validated two sayings:
1. A bureaucrat is someone who says NO and then searches the files for a precedent (author unknown), and
2. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.... (Emerson).
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Gary
Social climber
Right outside of Delacroix
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More Helen Keller:
Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought. Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder. Strike against preparedness that means death and misery to millions of human beings. Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction. Be heroes in an army of construction.
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DanaB
climber
CT
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Jan 11, 2013 - 11:16am PT
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A senior advertising executive explaining the guiding priniciple of " bigger, more, always bigger and more" that is the mantra of his industry.
" Consumers are like roaches. You spray them and spray them, and they get immune after a while."
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Gary
Social climber
Right outside of Delacroix
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Jan 11, 2013 - 12:27pm PT
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“فما دام هناك «جزء من المجتمع يمتلك حق استثمار وسائل الإنتاج، فإن الشغيلة، أحرارا أو غير أحرار، مرغمون على أن يضيفوا إلى جانب العمل الضروري لبقائهم، عملا إضافيا لإنتاج وسائل العيش إلى مالكي وسائل الإنتاج»”
― Friedrich Engels
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o-man
Social climber
Paia,Maui,HI
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Jan 11, 2013 - 12:51pm PT
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That man is successful who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much, who has gained the respect of the intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
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Inner City
Trad climber
East Bay
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Jan 11, 2013 - 01:30pm PT
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My five year old son yesterday, responding to his 11 year old brother telling him he couldn't play baseball just yet.
"Anyone can do anything!"
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 28, 2013 - 11:38am PT
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Roy, if you had to thank God for one thing, what would that be?
"The mountains and the valleys. If there were no valley of sadness and death, we could never really appreciate the sunshine of happiness on the mountaintop."--from a 1975 interview with Roy Rogers by Joe Curreri
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Tobia
Social climber
Denial
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"Revolution is not a dinner party." - Chairman Mao
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Mar 26, 2013 - 07:30pm PT
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"Starve a stalker, feed a fever"
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Potemkin Village
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May 26, 2013 - 10:22am PT
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our own beloved Fritz,
"Sometimes, despite knowledge, and good intentions, things do go wrong."
anonymous,
"If you don't have purpose... then your purpose is to find purpose."
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covelocos
Trad climber
Nor Cal
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May 26, 2013 - 10:26am PT
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"Lets just do this till someone gets hurt" ~Overheard from one of my kids to the other
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covelocos
Trad climber
Nor Cal
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May 26, 2013 - 10:28am PT
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They're not the best at what they do, they're the ONLY ones who do what they do!" ~Bill Graham
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ydpl8s
Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
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Jun 10, 2013 - 01:10pm PT
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My dad used to say "Son, don't air your dirty laundry in public, but make SURE you don't air someone else's dirty laundry in public, that could get you killed!"
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o-man
Social climber
Paia,Maui,HI
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Jun 13, 2013 - 07:20pm PT
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"That man is successful who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much, who has gained the respect of the intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had." ~Robert Louis Stevenson
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Contraband, as defined by Wayno in Psyche Lege thread:
"...things that completely normal people use to enhance the enjoyment of their meager lives or to reduce the pain of the struggle."
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Potemkin Village
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On keeping your guard up...
(On letting your guard down...)
"Death has to win only once, but life has to win every day."
In climbing and in living.
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MisterE
climber
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If I keep a green bough in my heart
a singing bird will come
--Chinese proverb
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perswig
climber
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Sep 19, 2013 - 09:49am PT
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Still, it is proper when young to strive for gigantic perfection that doesn't make sense...
Long ago when I had had a child sickness and nobody could tell what it was or how to treat it, my mother put me outside in a bed with mosquito netting over it, and I lay there watching mountains until they made me well.
It is surprising how much our souls are alike, at least in the presence of mountains. For all of us, mountains turn into images after a short time and the images turn true. Gold-tossed waves change into the purple backs of monsters, and so forth. Always something out of the moving deep, and nearly always oceanic. Never a lake, never the sky. But no matter what images I began with, when I watched long enough the mountains turned into dreams, and still do, and it works the other way around - often, waking from dreams, I know I have been in the mountains, and I know they have been moving - sometimes advancing threateningly, sometimes creeping hesitantly, sometimes receding endlessly. Both mountains and dreams.
Name the author?
Dale
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Oct 19, 2013 - 09:37am PT
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there's no indication like the second kick of a mule
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Potemkin Village
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Oct 19, 2013 - 10:40am PT
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“There is no education in the second kick of a mule.” Ernest Hollings
.....
perswig,
Still, it is proper when young to strive for gigantic perfection that doesn't make sense...
Thanks.
P.S. Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It
(It's the google age, lol!)
A retired English professor who began writing fiction at the age of 70.
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pud
climber
Sportbikeville & Yucca brevifolia
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Oct 19, 2013 - 10:45am PT
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When someone yells "duck" do it, then ask why - me
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weezy
climber
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Oct 19, 2013 - 11:08am PT
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you don't lose your girlfriend, you just lose your turn.
Ah, life in a small town. At least the weather is splitter.
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TWP
Trad climber
Mancos, CO
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Oct 19, 2013 - 11:47am PT
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Don't believe everything you think.
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 19, 2013 - 11:52am PT
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'un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire.'
Boileau
A fool always finds a bigger fool to admire.
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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Oct 19, 2013 - 12:59pm PT
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Old school...
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts, therefore guard accordingly; and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue, and reasonable nature.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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perswig
climber
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Oct 19, 2013 - 04:41pm PT
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Nice, Kris. Most of us could abide more by that.
Dale
(Tried to keep on topic, HFCS. Glad you liked it.)
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PAUL SOUZA
Trad climber
Central Valley, CA
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Oct 19, 2013 - 04:57pm PT
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"Present dangers are less than future imaginings." - Shakespeare
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Potemkin Village
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Oct 21, 2013 - 01:21pm PT
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ksolem,
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts, therefore guard accordingly; and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue, and reasonable nature.
Yeah, that is a favorite. I wish I had consciously intentionally somehow - through a mentor's guidance, say- made it a mantra in my own life from 2nd grade onwards. Marcus Arelius, like!
.....
On the other hand...
“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we can expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.”
Do four years as a business major breed greed?
business education distorts students into “critters with lopsided brains, icy hearts, and shrunken souls." -Hal Leavitt
I wondered about this in the past for a long time, then spaced it for years. Then a few years ago the issue and implications cropped up again with the short sales, bankruptcies, walkouts etc. - as smart business strategy particularly by the business savvy. Now here it is again in terms of economics...
Studying economics breeds greed.
“By encouraging us to expect the worst in others it brings out the worst in us: dreading the role of the chump, we are often loath to heed our nobler instincts.”
http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20131021124625-69244073-does-studying-economics-breed-greed
Implications for individual and culture are HUGE because of the thousands upon thousands of kids who will be graduating with business or economics degrees, in unprecedented numbers, groomed to value smart strategies in turning profit.
It's like one of these "damned if we do, damned if don't" things. It seems it never lets up.
Nature's got a seamy side.
Life isn't cured, it's managed.
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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Oct 21, 2013 - 02:11pm PT
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I wish I had consciously intentionally somehow - through a mentor's guidance, say- made it a mantra in my own life from 2nd grade inwards
You and me both.
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Gorgeous George
Trad climber
Los Angeles, California
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Oct 21, 2013 - 04:43pm PT
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The truth, uncompromisingly told, will always have its ragged edges.
herman Melville
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elcap-pics
Big Wall climber
Crestline CA
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Oct 21, 2013 - 07:23pm PT
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"The trust, built over a lifetime, can be lost in a moment".
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Srbphoto
climber
Kennewick wa
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Oct 22, 2013 - 09:48am PT
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nothing is nearly as hard as the easiest pitch on the route.
Peter Croft - Good Book Thread
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SicMic
climber
two miles from Eldorado
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Oct 22, 2013 - 08:42pm PT
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"If I'm so smart, how come I'm dead?" Albert Einstein
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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Oct 22, 2013 - 09:15pm PT
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o-man, that is indeed one of the most beautiful quotes.
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FRUMY
Trad climber
Bishop,CA
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Oct 22, 2013 - 10:56pm PT
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"I never memorize anything I can look up."
Albert Einstein
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Oct 23, 2013 - 01:38pm PT
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He went over with bombs in daylight, under covering fire from a couple of rifles, and scared away the occupants. A pointless feat, since instead of signalling for reinforcements, he sat down in the German trench and began reading a book of poems which he had brought with him. When he went back he did not even report. Colonel Stockwell, then in command, raged at him. The attack on Mametz Wood had been delayed for two hours because British patrols were still reported to be out. "British patrols" were Siegfried and his book of poems. "I'd have got you a D.S.O., if you'd only shown more sense," stormed Stockwell.
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Potemkin Village
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Oct 25, 2013 - 09:48pm PT
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On replacing a garbage disposer...
This absolutely is one of the best reasons YouTube is important... Thank you, thank you. I watched this before I went to Home Depot - the salesman at Home Depot was super nice and supportive and I came home and installed the disposal. And yep - I'm a woman. And very proud of this accomplishment. The video took the mystery out of "how to." Thanks!
hyphenpro
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6PZVEz_o-g
The internet and its accoutrements have changed EVERYTHING. In one generation!
“There Is NOTHING New Under The Sun” - Ecclesiastes
Bullshi't.
One exaggeration to counterpoint another. :)
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Gilroy
Social climber
Bolderado
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Oct 26, 2013 - 03:42pm PT
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Recent and well-deserved winner of the Nobel prize for lit, Alice Munro:
"As soon as a man and woman of almost any age are alone together within four walls it is assumed that anything may happen. Spontaneous combustion, instant fornication, triumph of the senses. What possibilities men and women must see in each other to infer such dangers. Or, believing in those dangers, how often must they think of the possibilities."
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FRUMY
Trad climber
Bishop,CA
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There are three stages to scientific discovery: first, people deny that it is true; then they deny that it is important; finally they credit the wrong person.
Alexander von Humboldt
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perswig
climber
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Dec 14, 2013 - 02:48pm PT
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There is no charge for awesomeness
Nice.
Dale
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Trusty Rusty
climber
Tahoe Area
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Feb 20, 2014 - 08:38am PT
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"The problem with winter sports is that—follow me closely here—they generally take place in winter"
Dave Barry
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TWP
Trad climber
Mancos, CO
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Feb 22, 2014 - 11:38am PT
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"Licking the jar from the outside will never give you the inside ……"
WBraun, ST post
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SCseagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz
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Feb 22, 2014 - 01:54pm PT
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We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.
I seemed to vow to myself that some day I would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on till I came to one of the poles of the earth, the end of the axis upon which this great round ball turns.
Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.
Both by Ernest Shackleton, my absolute hero...the first I encounter in so many places I go...the 2nd....well it is at the pinnacle of my bucket list. So so hopeful, I'd settle for just one of the Poles. The 3rd...try to live my life that way.
My heart throb. Susan
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pyro
Big Wall climber
Calabasas
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Feb 22, 2014 - 11:13pm PT
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You took the pussy route bro! A.k.a medusa
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Trusty Rusty
climber
Tahoe Area
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Feb 22, 2014 - 11:28pm PT
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Richard Buckminster Fuller nailed it:
"In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete"
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Lollie
Social climber
I'm Lolli.
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Feb 23, 2014 - 07:48am PT
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Don't know if this one's been posted before. The second of my two favourite quotes:
“The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.”
― Arthur C. Clarke
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Lollie
Social climber
I'm Lolli.
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Feb 23, 2014 - 08:08am PT
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My favourite quote is by Oscar Wilde. :-)
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
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TWP
Trad climber
Mancos, CO
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"A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions."
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841 – 1935)
U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Holmes was a stone master?
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Larry Nelson
Social climber
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One that I can relate to:
"All my life I wanted to be somebody. Now I realize that I should have been more specific"
Lily Tomlin
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Larry Nelson
Social climber
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"It's not that I am afraid of dying. I just don't want to be there when it happens".
Woody Allen
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Larry Nelson
Social climber
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"Say what you want about the Nazis, but no woman has ever had a fantasy about being tied up and sexually ravaged by a man dressed as a liberal." -- P.J. O'Rourke
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Leggs
Sport climber
Made in California
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Mar 11, 2014 - 10:46am PT
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"Some people come into your life just to teach you how to let go"
So true.
~peace
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Mar 11, 2014 - 01:43pm PT
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"This is my resignation letter. I’m walking out in silence. In the future there will be no need for people like me because there won’t be a democracy to save, just private interests, battles for more power, more money. The few files I take with me regard men who must save themselves from the storm, black souls, mercenary captains. ... as we’ve already seen in history, they’ll be the rulers of the chaos..." Romanzo Criminale, Italian film.
"The man who wishes to educate himself must first know how to doubt, because the doubting mind can get to the truth." Aristoteles.
"Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt man doing it" Chinese proverb.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Mar 11, 2014 - 01:53pm PT
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"No tiny fingers, No tiny toes
The memory lingers but the digit goes
In an Eastern Railway carriage, where the River Ganges flows
There are Twenty Tiny Fingers and Twenty Tiny Toes.
Chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop chop"
Annapurna-expedition 1950. Who wrote the poem?
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Mar 11, 2014 - 02:12pm PT
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Marlow, from what did you resign?
And the twenty tiny fingers was Patey? (pretty sure it weren't Herzog)
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Mar 11, 2014 - 02:17pm PT
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Reilly
Bingo... Patey's right...
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Mar 11, 2014 - 02:37pm PT
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Marry, sir, they have committed false report; moreover, they have spoken untruths; secondarily, they are slanders; sixth and lastly, they have belied a lady; thirdly, they have verified unjust things; and, to conclude, they are lying knaves. Who said this?
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Mar 11, 2014 - 02:50pm PT
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Churchill?
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Mar 11, 2014 - 02:53pm PT
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Haha... the elegance of Churchill...
Here's Churchill:
Nancy Astor was a native Virginian who became Britain’s first woman member of the House of Commons. In the 1930’s she headed a clique in the House of Commons that found something to admire in Hitler’s Germany. Churchill described an Astorite as an appeaser "who feeds the crocodile hoping that it will eat him last." One time shortly thereafter, Churchill found himself at Cliveden, the Astor mansion.
After dinner Lady Astor presided over the pouring of coffee. When Churchill came by, she glared and said. "Winston, if I were your wife, I’d put poison in your coffee." "Nancy," Churchill replied to the acid-tongued woman, "if I were your husband, I’d drink it."
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Larry Nelson
Social climber
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Mar 12, 2014 - 12:27am PT
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After a vigorous debate in Parliament, Churchill retired to the men's room. Standing at one end of the urine trough was Churchill's arch political rival. Churchill goes to the other end, and his rival quips:
"What's matter Sir Winston, feeling a bit standoffish today"?
Churchill replies:
"Not at all. It's just that whenever you see something that is large, you want to nationalize it"
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Larry Nelson
Social climber
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Mar 12, 2014 - 12:50am PT
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'I was going to open a hairdressing salon. Who knew any of this would last?'
Ringo Starr.
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TWP
Trad climber
Mancos, CO
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Mar 12, 2014 - 09:38am PT
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Marlow asked, "Who said this?"
Shakespeare Kick in the Rear wrote it (I think; no research undertaken to verify my guess).
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Mar 12, 2014 - 02:01pm PT
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TWP
Yes, Shakespeare wrote it. It's the words of Dogberry, taken from Much Ado About Nothing.
And who said this:
"These men who [bolt] the rock with such monotonous regularity, where performance lack all originality, imagination and inventiveness - it can only be assumed that they make lousy lovers."
Answer: Doug Scott
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scuffy b
climber
heading slowly NNW
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Mar 12, 2014 - 05:13pm PT
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Hey, maybe I need education in using the Net. Or...
Oct 19, 2013, Paul Souza wrote
"present dangers are less than future imaginings" attributed to Shakespeare.
So I try to find this line and the closest I find is
"present fears are less than horrible imaginings" from Hamlet, Act I scene 3
but I find Paul's quote used by Pastor Wendell Jones on Twitter, who
attributes it to Shakespeare.
Howbout it?
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Mar 12, 2014 - 05:19pm PT
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Hehe... possibly too much altar wine...
Or we can leave it to CMC:
The truth about the world, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.
The universe is no narrow thing and the order within it is not constrained by any latitude in its conception to repeat what exist without our knowledge than with it and the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way. For existence has its own order and that no man's mind can compass, the mind itself being but a fact among others.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Mar 12, 2014 - 05:21pm PT
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It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing. It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive. It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain. I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it or fade it, or fix it. I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own; if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, be realistic, or to remember the limitations of being human. It doesn't interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself; if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul. I want to know if you can be faithful and therefore be trustworthy. I want to know if you can see beauty even when it is not pretty everyday, and if you can source your life on the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon. It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up after a night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done for the children. It doesn't interest me who you know or how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back. It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away. I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.
Mountain Dreamer, Indian Elder
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SicMic
climber
across the street from Marshall, CO
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Mar 12, 2014 - 07:37pm PT
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I was on the Captain with Kor and I asked "How'm I doing Layton? Am I going fast enough?"
He said "You're faster than everyone but Roper on aid."
I'm still not sure if it was a grand compliment or one of his puns.
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pocoloco1
Social climber
The Chihuahua Desert
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Mar 12, 2014 - 11:27pm PT
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No people on earth can be held, as a people, to be an enemy, for all humanity shares the common hunger for peace and fellowship and justice.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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2 l l
Sport climber
Rancho Verga, CA
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Mar 13, 2014 - 12:38am PT
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God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
Elbert Hubbard
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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Mar 13, 2014 - 11:37am PT
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Marlow, that Mountain Dreamer quote is beautiful. My new favorite one.
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Leggs
Sport climber
Made in California
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Mar 18, 2014 - 11:27pm PT
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Got the following quote inked on the inside of my forearm this evening:
"The wound is the place where the Light enters you." ~Rumi
~peace
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Lorenzo
Trad climber
Oregon
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Mar 19, 2014 - 04:42am PT
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Yoda: always with you it cannot be done.
Luke: OK, I'll try.
Yoda: NO! Try not. DO!
Or do not. There is no try.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Mar 19, 2014 - 06:26pm PT
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"Mountains have a way of dealing with overconfidence." Hermann Buhl
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Mar 19, 2014 - 06:28pm PT
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"If the conquest of a great peak brings moments of exultation and bliss, which in the monotonous, materialistic existence of modern times nothing else can approach, it also presents great dangers. It is not the goal of grand alpinism to face peril, but it is one of the tests one must undergo to deserve the joy of rising for an instant above the state of crawling grubs. But soon we have to start the descent. Suddenly I feel sad and despondent. I am well aware that a mountaineering victory is only a scratch in space But in spite of this, how sad I feel at leaving that crest ! On this proud and beautiful mountain we have lived hours of fraternal, warm and exalting nobility. Here for a few days we have ceased to be slaves and have really been men. It is hard to return to servitude."
Lionel Terray
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Mar 19, 2014 - 06:30pm PT
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"The world is a better place to live in because it contains human beings who will give up ease and security in order to do what they themselves think worth doing. They do the useless, brave, noble, divinely foolish, and the very wisest things that are done by Man. And what they prove to themselves and to others is that Man is no mere creature of his habits, no automaton in his routine, but that in the dust of which he is made there is also fire, lighted now and then by great winds from the sky."
Walter Lippmann
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Mar 19, 2014 - 06:35pm PT
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"If in normal conditions it is skill, which counts, in such extreme situations, it is the spirit, which saves."
Walter Bonatti
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Leggs
Sport climber
Made in California
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Mar 24, 2014 - 10:22pm PT
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“Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.”
“I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.”
“Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames”
~ Rumi
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Dal Maxvill
Social climber
Illinois
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Mar 24, 2014 - 11:49pm PT
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"Have you ever thrown a ball 100 miles an hour? Everything hurts. Even your ass hurts. I see pictures of my face and say, 'Holy shit', but that's the strain you feel when you throw. I had one of those faces you look at it, man, and say, 'Man he's an ass-hole.' Could be, depends on if you pissed me off or not." -- Bob Gibson
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Anastasia
climber
Home
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Mar 24, 2014 - 11:55pm PT
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Stop fighting for the truth, it exist outside of others. People who want to will see it and the rest, well... Those that don't see it are usually the very ones you should avoid. It's a built in life filter of sort.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Mar 24, 2014 - 11:56pm PT
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"Marriage was a perfectly workable human institution when the life expectancy was 40"....Margaret Mead.
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Trusty Rusty
climber
Tahoe Area
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Mar 25, 2014 - 12:04am PT
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I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.
Great lines in there Marlow.
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Mar 31, 2014 - 09:01pm PT
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Peter Tangvald
"I had to choose between her and the boat, she said. Any sailor will know it is a lot more difficult to get a new boat than a new wife so I bought her a one-way ticket back to Norway."
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Dal Maxvill
Social climber
Illinois
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Mar 31, 2014 - 10:37pm PT
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I don't think I will win a game in this match. Lasker plays too stupidly for me to look at the board with any interest. - David Janowski
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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I have a new favorite quote, just saw it this morning:
Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones
-- John Lennon
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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westhegimp
Social climber
granada hills
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"It's like 5.12 rests."
-Troy Wald
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madbolter1
Big Wall climber
Denver, CO
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Build a man a fire, and you keep him warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and you keep him warm for the rest of his life.
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DrDeeg
Mountain climber
Mammoth Lakes, CA
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"We are more certain when we are ignorant, with knowledge comes doubt." - J W von Goethe
"At both ends of the social spectrum, lies the leisure class." - Eric Beck
"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." - Mark Twain
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple -- and wrong." - H L Mencken
"If I’d asked people what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse." - Henry Ford
"Anything worth doing is worth doing superficially. Anything not worth doing is not worth doing well." - various (Tukey, Ehrlich)
"Practice all things in moderation, including the practice of moderation." - Arnold Beckman
"Wise men speak when they have something to say, Fools when they have to say something." - Plato
"Snowflakes are the hieroglyphs sent from the sky." - Ukichiro Nakaya
"I have outlived my pecker." - Willie Nelson, on his 75th birthday.
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Larry Nelson
Social climber
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"Why do people say 'Grow some balls'? Balls are weak and sensitive. If you really want to get tough, grow a vagina. Those things take a pounding".
Betty White
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Byran
climber
San Jose, CA
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"Many more people can take machines to pieces than can put them together again."
H.G. Wells
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Larry Nelson
Social climber
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"I like men who have a future and women who have a past."
Oscar Wilde
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Sanskara
climber
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When the power of love overcomes the love of power,
Only then will the world know peace.
Jimmy Hendrix
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Lorenzo
Trad climber
Oregon
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I always liked this exchange in priority shift between Howard Doyle and Eric Janoscrat on the second pitch of a new climb at Seneca, as related by Howard on the front porch of the Gendarme store.
Howie, who weighed about what a baby grand piano does, was leading a new route and stalled out.
Eric: "what taking you so long Howie?"
Howie: "It's hard."
Eric: "hurry up will you? I see a thunderstorm coming in. We'll get soaked."
Howie: " look, the rock is loose. I might pull half the cliff down on you. The last three pieces suck. If I come off I'm pulling us both off."
Eric: .... Long pause... "take your time...."
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Seamstress
Trad climber
Yacolt, WA
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My Dad:
"God Hates a Coward"
Going all in playing cards. Oft repeated.
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Sanskara
climber
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All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions,
Leonardo da Vinci
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Larry Nelson
Social climber
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"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."
Helen Keller
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scuffy b
climber
heading slowly NNW
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REPORTER TO GANDHI: What do you think of Western civilization.
GANDHI: It would be a good idea.
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Sanskara
climber
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As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
Henry David Thoreau
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lars johansen
Trad climber
West Marin, CA
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"When you come to a fork in the road..take it"-Yogi Berra
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whitemeat
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo, CA
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"the best climber in the world is the one having the most fun"
-alex lowe
"if you are an as#@&%e and you win the gold medal, you are still a as#@&%e"
-cool runnings
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Leggs
Sport climber
Made in California
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Apr 16, 2014 - 11:27am PT
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“It's not perfection that makes you beautiful, It's your imperfections”
― Peyton J Glenn
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Dal Maxvill
Social climber
Granite City, Illinois
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Apr 16, 2014 - 12:38pm PT
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Apr 16, 2014 - 01:13pm PT
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Apr 16, 2014 - 01:43pm PT
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And to second Guido's long-winded quote I offer the following photo with a quote...
translation:
"I don't give a sh#t about you and your Master of Sport or Speedclimbing
Champion of the Soviet Union bullshit! Your amerikanski friend tried to
enter the Soviet Union illegaly and now he's going to the Leonid Brezhnev Hotel.
You keep trying to get him off and you're going with him, got it?"
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Apr 16, 2014 - 02:39pm PT
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The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven a hell, a hell a heaven.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Apr 16, 2014 - 02:41pm PT
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K: Did they say why, M, why they want to terminate my project?
M: I was sent on a classified mission, sir.
K: It's no longer classified, is it? Did they tell you?
M: They told me that you had gone totally insane, and that your methods were unsound.
K: Are my methods unsound?
M: I don't see any method at all, sir.
K: I expected someone like you. What did you expect? Are you an assassin?
M: I'm a protector of sound command and pure style.
K: You're neither. You're an errand boy, sent by the grocery clerks, to collect a bill.
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Leggs
Sport climber
Made in California
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Apr 18, 2014 - 10:33pm PT
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On Solitude....
“I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.” ~Henry David Thoreau
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hobo_dan
Social climber
Minnesota
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Apr 21, 2014 - 08:57pm PT
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“I can’t stand around talking all day. I have to go drive by the house of the girl that broke my heart.’
Lester Bangs
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yosemite 5.9
climber
santa cruz
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Apr 21, 2014 - 10:32pm PT
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There's always some son-of-a-bitch that doesn't get the word.
JFK
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 26, 2014 - 10:22pm PT
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Stupidity got us into this mess - why can't it get us out?
Will Rogers
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 26, 2014 - 11:04pm PT
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hey, my last post was number '666'. Does that mean something? ha
. “He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”- Fredrick Nietzsche
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ECF
Big Wall climber
So Far East I might as well be dead
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Apr 26, 2014 - 11:11pm PT
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"Yer Gonna Die!"
Yelled up from below by just about everyone.
"We're Gonna Die! We're Gonna Die! We're Gonna Die!"
Mark Synnott at 4am, west face, North Howser.
"I am a very strong climber, in my mind."
Alex Huber
"Hi, I'm Bill."
"Yeah, I know. And you still owe me five dollars."
Swilliam introducing himself to me after I cut my hair.
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FRUMY
Trad climber
Bishop,CA
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Apr 28, 2014 - 03:59pm PT
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^^^^^^^^^^^^
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steveA
Trad climber
Wolfeboro, NH
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Apr 28, 2014 - 04:11pm PT
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If your going to solo-fall early.
J.Donini said that once to me. Not sure if he came up with it, but I like it.
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johntp
Trad climber
socal
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Apr 28, 2014 - 05:24pm PT
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"No, I don't need anger management.
You need to stop pissing me off!"
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Leggs
Sport climber
Made in California
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Apr 28, 2014 - 10:55pm PT
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"Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves."
~Confucius (504 B.C.)
{{Kath, I am re-watching our favorite soap opera... from the beginning. OY!}}
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Apr 28, 2014 - 11:08pm PT
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"Pass the hot sauce!"
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Leggs
Sport climber
Made in California
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"Girls compete with each other... Women EMPOWER one another."
~peace
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TWP
Trad climber
Mancos, CO
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Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.
Mark Twain
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ruppell
climber
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It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
Mark Twain
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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My life, my life, now I speak of it as of something over, now as of a joke which still goes on, and it is neither, for at the same time it is over and it goes on, and is there any tense for that? Watch wound and buried by the watchmaker, before he died, whose ruined works will one day speak of God, to the worms.
Samuel Beckett
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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"I feel like you only come to this movie once and if you don't get something rewarding out of every minute you're sitting there, you're blowing your ticket." -Ken Kesey
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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This United States Government should go down to Mississippi and protect my people. That is what should happen.
Paul Robeson
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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"As the the third Negro to attend Rutgers the stares I get instantly make me wonder if the
other two got out of here alive." Paul Robeson
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TWP
Trad climber
Mancos, CO
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"The reasonable man achieves nothing."
James Joyce, Conversations with James Joyce
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perswig
climber
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May 13, 2014 - 06:13am PT
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"I wouldn't enjoy flat country where one always knows what lies ahead as far as the eye can see. I want hills that lead you up to look beyond."
John J. Rowlands, in Cache Lake Country
Dale
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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May 13, 2014 - 08:56am PT
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"When I come up against the real world, I just vacillate." -- Robert Crumb
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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May 16, 2014 - 03:55pm PT
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“Um, Dad? What is the mind? Is it a system of impulses or is it something tangible?” “Relax… what is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind.”
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Chief
climber
The NW edge of The Hudson Bay
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May 16, 2014 - 03:58pm PT
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With regard to tools and resources;
"I'd rather be looking at it then for it."
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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May 19, 2014 - 10:03pm PT
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"I eat only white foods: eggs, sugar, grated bones, the fat of dead animals; veal, salt, coconut, chicken cooked in white water; fruit mold, rice, turnips; camphorated sausage, dough, cheese (white), cotton salad, and certain fish." -- Erik Satie
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Flip Flop
Trad climber
Truckee, CA
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May 19, 2014 - 10:16pm PT
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You People! You may ski on zis side or you may ski on zat side but stay out of zee middle here.
"I didn't actually kill him , you know."
Well, I probably won't actually kill you.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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May 20, 2014 - 12:15am PT
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Ambiguity has never felt so liberating. Avery
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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May 28, 2014 - 09:54pm PT
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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May 28, 2014 - 10:10pm PT
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Happiness is a good flow of life. -- Zeno of Citium
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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TwistedCrank
climber
Released to general population, Idaho
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Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip. --Winston Churchill
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MisterE
climber
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Jun 18, 2014 - 07:24am PT
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"The difference between genius and stupidity is genius has it's limits."
-Albert Einstein
Bumper sticker: Eat beef! The west wasn't won on salad!
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TWP
Trad climber
Mancos, CO
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Jun 18, 2014 - 07:32am PT
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Life is one continuous mistake.
Dogen
Golf is a game of managed mishits.
Dana Hickman
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o-man
Social climber
Paia,Maui,HI
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Jun 18, 2014 - 12:56pm PT
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Jun 18, 2014 - 01:13pm PT
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There is nothing beyond the last visible dog but us.
We are stardust. We are golden.
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 18, 2014 - 01:53pm PT
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And you saw how the beggar ran from the mutt? That’s authority! Even a dog is obeyed sometimes. You stupid cop, stop your violence! Why are you whipping that whore? You should be whipping yourself, since you lust after her and yearn to do the same thing for which you’re punishing her. One criminal punishes another. Poor men’s sins are much more noticeable than rich men’s. Cover up a crime with gold and the arm of justice can’t touch it. But dress the crime in rags and it’s caught easily. Everyone sins. You can’t blame anyone for it anyone, I say. I’ll vouch for that. Believe me, my friend, since I have the power to stop the prosecutors. Get yourself some glass eyes, and pretend to see things you can’t, like a crooked politician.
King Lear
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clinker
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, California
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Jun 18, 2014 - 02:03pm PT
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When asked recently about the quality of a 2 bolt Star-drivin/smc anchor that Bob Walton and friends had placed had placed On Condor Condiment (Pinnacles, High Peaks) in the eighties.
Bob replied "Don't lean back"
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Aug 15, 2014 - 11:56am PT
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"We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our education system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us." -- Charles Bukowski
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Aug 15, 2014 - 12:30pm PT
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The Call Of K2 Lou
Mountain climber
North Shore, BC
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Aug 15, 2014 - 02:47pm PT
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“I have noticed that even people who claim everything is predetermined and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.”
-Stephen Hawking
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Rollover
climber
Gross Vegas
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Aug 15, 2014 - 07:40pm PT
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Always cut toward your buddy
Not toward your body..
Safety fifth!!
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MisterE
Gym climber
Bishop, CA
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Love this one:
"We keep telling people to follow their passion, but that's a cruel thing to say if they don't yet know what their passion is. A lot of people don't know what their passion is... and that's ok. If you don't know your passion, just follow your curiosity. It may very well lead you to your passion. And if it doesn't, that's ok... because in the end, you've spent you entire life following what inspires you and makes you curious. That in itself should be good enough. If you get to do that, it's a wonderful way to have lived your life." -Elizabeth Gilbert
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perswig
climber
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"...oh, and by the way, which one's Pink?"
Dale (but ^ not, right?)
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Srbphoto
climber
Kennewick wa
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Oct 22, 2014 - 09:32pm PT
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you can't hang a man for killing a woman that's trying to steal your horse
Willie Nelson "Red Headed Stranger"
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Oct 22, 2014 - 09:59pm PT
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You never outgrow your need for boobs.--anonymouse
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perswig
climber
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Oct 24, 2014 - 05:34pm PT
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"It's all right to take a chance, as long as you're the only one who'll pay."
Robert Redford, in Out of Africa.
Dale
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Oct 24, 2014 - 05:51pm PT
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On that note, I will have another.Thank You, Please.
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divad
Trad climber
wmass
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Nov 21, 2014 - 06:12pm PT
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"Perhaps we're intruding, this seems to be a private beach"
-anonymous GI on Omaha Beach, June 6, 1944
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 13, 2014 - 08:00am PT
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" if you want to go fast, go alone, if you want to go far, go together" African proverb
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 20, 2014 - 09:13pm PT
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"the line separating good from evil passes not through states, nor between political parties - but right through every human heart."
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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MisterE
Gym climber
Bishop, CA
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Dec 20, 2014 - 09:23pm PT
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The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
--Henry David Thoreau
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coolrockclimberguy69
climber
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Dec 20, 2014 - 09:27pm PT
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People ask me what kind of bass player I am, and I tell em, "I'm D. Boon's bass player" - Mike Watt
edit: just realized this monday is the 29th anniversary of the death of d. boon. wierd.
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
extraordinaire
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Jan 18, 2015 - 12:46am PT
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The only human institution that rejects progress is the cemetery.
~ Harold Wilson
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Mark Force
Trad climber
Cave Creek, AZ
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Jan 18, 2015 - 12:58am PT
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"Everything happens for a reason. Sometimes the reason is that I'm stupid and I make bad decisions!"
~ Anon
"I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."
~ Attributed to a number of individuals including Thomas Jefferson, probably Mark Twain
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MisterE
Gym climber
Bishop, CA
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Jan 18, 2015 - 07:43am PT
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"A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind."
Albert Szent-Gyorgi
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MisterE
Gym climber
Bishop, CA
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Jan 21, 2015 - 08:20pm PT
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"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."
– John Rogers
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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Feb 28, 2015 - 05:39pm PT
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Bump.
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Lollie
Social climber
I'm Lolli.
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Mar 14, 2015 - 09:15am PT
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Judgement is not upon all occasions required, but discretion always is.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield.
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coolrockclimberguy69
climber
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Mar 14, 2015 - 05:14pm PT
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"People die. This is the fact the world desperately tries to hide from us from birth. Long after you find out the truth about sex and Santa Claus, this other myth endures, this one about how you'll always get rescued at the last second and if not, your death will at least mean something and there'll be somebody there to hold your hand and cry over you. All of society is built to prop up that lie, the whole world a big, noisy puppet show meant to distract us from the fact that at the end, you'll die, and you'll probably be alone."
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MisterE
Gym climber
Bishop, CA
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Mar 14, 2015 - 05:18pm PT
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"Find what you love and let it kill you."
--Charles Bukowski
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Gorgeous George
Trad climber
Los Angeles, California
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Mar 15, 2015 - 05:43pm PT
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Heard this in an old movie the other night:
"My Father used to tell me not to chase after women, or busses, they'll both leave you behind!"
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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Mar 15, 2015 - 06:59pm PT
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Two from my best buddy, Isom:
He's so dumb, he couldn't poor piss out of a boot even if the instructions were written on the heel.
If it costs a nickle to sh#t, I'd have to throw up.
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Gary
Social climber
From A Buick 6
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Apr 29, 2015 - 11:19am PT
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On Mikhail Tal by his first wife:
Misha was so ill-equipped for living... When he travelled to a tournament, he couldn't even pack his own suitcase... He didn't even know how to turn on the gas for cooking. If I had a headache, and there happened to be no one home but him, he would fall into a panic: "How do I make a hot-water bottle?" And when I got behind the wheel of a car, he would look at me as though I were a visitor from another planet. Of course, if he had made some effort, he could have learned all of this. But it was all boring to him. He just didn't need to. A lot of people have said that if Tal had looked after his health, if he hadn't led such a dissolute life... and so forth. But with people like Tal, the idea of "if only" is just absurd. He wouldn't have been Tal then.
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Norwegian
Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
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"Looking westwards we had a life
and death pledge to go to the mountains."
-Xu Xiake
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Topic Author's Reply - May 16, 2015 - 04:36pm PT
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“Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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Jun 25, 2015 - 05:50pm PT
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"Seems like everything people ought to know they just don't want to hear. I guess that's the big trouble with the world." -Marny, Out of the Past (1947)
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WBraun
climber
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Jun 25, 2015 - 05:54pm PT
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What Me Worry ~ Alfred E. Neuman
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o-man
Social climber
Paia,Maui,HI
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Jun 25, 2015 - 08:04pm PT
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"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure." Helen Keller
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Gary
Social climber
From A Buick 6
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Jul 21, 2015 - 04:18pm PT
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"364 days a year you hate his guts, and on the 365th you lift the Stanley Cup" -- Steve Shutt on legendary coach Scotty Bowman.
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anita514
Gym climber
Great White North
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Jul 21, 2015 - 04:31pm PT
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"What is the best in life? To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of their women."
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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Ontario, Canada, eh?
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Jul 22, 2015 - 09:34am PT
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^^ Yes, folks - this is the woman I love. And yes, it really *IS* her favourite quote.
Lawsy lawsy lawsy.... We're off to Bon Echo climbing this weekend, 85m high right out of Mazinaw Lake, access via canoe. Looks like I have to step out of Free Climbing Retirement. Terrifying.....
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Roxy
Trad climber
CA Central Coast
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Jul 22, 2015 - 09:37am PT
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"to get back before dark is the art of going" -Wendall Berry
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anita514
Gym climber
Great White North
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Jul 22, 2015 - 10:32am PT
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^^^ "TMI"
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ydpl8s
Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
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Jul 22, 2015 - 10:52am PT
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The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. - Bertrand Russell
Seems appropriate with the new presidential political cycle.
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Srbphoto
climber
Kennewick wa
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Jul 30, 2015 - 06:50am PT
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It’s funny how much you can achieve when you don’t care who gets the credit.”
Jake Peavy - SF Giants pitcher talking about the Giants as a team.
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o-man
Social climber
Paia,Maui,HI
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Jul 31, 2015 - 12:52am PT
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"I'll let you be in my dream, if I can be in yours."
Bob Dylan
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anita514
Gym climber
Great White North
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Jul 31, 2015 - 03:59am PT
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Don't hate me because I'm beautiful, Elena
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anita514
Gym climber
Great White North
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Jul 31, 2015 - 04:38am PT
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I'm on the East coast and I have a job.
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anita514
Gym climber
Great White North
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Jul 31, 2015 - 05:27am PT
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Oh that's so sweet. Girlie got a jobie to go to. Ever thougt of ditching the old pack rat for a nice jewish boy?
Sure, hook me up. Email me and I'll send you some glamour shots.
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anita514
Gym climber
Great White North
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Jul 31, 2015 - 06:32am PT
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Norwegian
Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
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Jul 31, 2015 - 07:14am PT
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hi anita, sweets.
don't tangle with
this rovner-bag-of-vinegar.
why waist your thyme?
"a good sermon is like a ladies skirt:
short enough to arouse interest,
though just long enough to cover
the essentials."
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Stewart
Trad climber
Courtenay, B.C.
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Jul 31, 2015 - 04:10pm PT
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Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Mark Twain
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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Hey here's one for you Mike...
"A professorship of theology should have no place in our institution." -Thomas Jefferson
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Fletcher
Boulder climber
A very quiet place
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I got a million of 'em. Good suggestion.
Half the fun of the travel is the aesthetic of lostness. —Ray Bradbury
Go fast enough to get there, but slow enough to see. —Jimmy Buffet
If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal. — Paul Coelho
There is freedom waiting for you, On the breezes of the sky, And you ask "What if I fall?" Oh but my darling, What if you fly? —Erin Hanson
My most memorable hikes can be classified as 'Shortcuts that Backfired’. —E. Abbey
… and write it on the hood of a Subaru Outback 86 with four Nokia Hakapolita snow tires and Thule car rack system and pre-installed Free Tibet and I’m Pro Sheep and I vote bumpers stickers… —Tom and Ray Magliozzi
Absolute unmixed attention is prayer. —Simone Weil
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perswig
climber
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"So much are the great and strong dependent upon the small and weak, and so even twinflower and bluets live to the benefit of other things, though their beauty alone is adequate justification for their existence."
Pleasant River, Dale Rex Coman
Dale
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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Aug 11, 2015 - 03:39pm PT
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"Words are supposed to hurt.
That's considered a legitimate way of fighting things out. And what did it replace in the historical scene? It replaced actual violence.
Words are supposed to be free so we can actually fight things out, in the battleplace of ideas, so we don't end up fighting them out in civil wars.
If we try to legitimately ban anything that can hurt someone's feelings, everyone is reduced to silence."
Greg Lukianoff
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind/399356/
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Aug 15, 2015 - 11:44pm PT
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"Justin Bieber is an elite alpinist."
--scrubbing bubbles
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Aug 16, 2015 - 11:30am PT
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"Men are born to be bad, and men are born to be good.
In the meanwhile, neither saints nor sinner are made by good or bad advice."--Will Henry
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MisterE
Gym climber
Being In Sierra Happy Of Place
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Aug 16, 2015 - 12:06pm PT
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"Wasn't my first mistake, probably won't be my last."
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Aug 16, 2015 - 12:22pm PT
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"pull down, not out"
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pud
climber
Sportbikeville & Yucca brevifolia
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Aug 16, 2015 - 12:29pm PT
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Look before you leap
or
He who hesitates is lost.
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MikeMc
Social climber
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Aug 16, 2015 - 06:24pm PT
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"The problem with internet quotes is that you cant always depend on their accuracy" -Abraham Lincoln, 1864
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FRUMY
Trad climber
Bishop,CA
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Aug 17, 2015 - 08:29am PT
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To recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting.
It's like advising a starving man to eat less.
Oscar Wilde
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Aug 17, 2015 - 08:36am PT
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The 16 year old George Washington's #11 of his Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior:
Shift not yourself in the Sight of others nor Gnaw your nails.
Clearly the young George didn't play baseball.
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o-man
Social climber
Paia,Maui,HI
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Aug 17, 2015 - 07:12pm PT
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"Of all human inventions,the most worthless is an excuse."
M.S.
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anita514
Gym climber
Great White North
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Aug 17, 2015 - 07:20pm PT
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You can pick your friends, you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friend's nose
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Aug 17, 2015 - 07:24pm PT
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hey there say... well, from a quick look, here's one fave:
"... I'm no good, I cracked under pressure just as surely as thin-ice, fails a horse."
quoted from Stoney Holton:
(created character, in the jake-smith-ranch-series short-stories- collection--book 5, ~Wavering on the Treshold~ story 8, chapter 3,
...by neebeeshaabookway) ...
(yep his name is spelled, stoney, not stony) ...
:)
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Winemaker
Sport climber
Yakima, WA
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Aug 17, 2015 - 07:54pm PT
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On my (DJ) brother's beat up VW bug for a station promotion back in 80's
Seattle:
"Honk if you're Jesus"
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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Aug 18, 2015 - 06:27am PT
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"I have an I.Q. of 70. I am on welfare. I have a perpetual boner. I have nothing better to do than f*#k lots of other ugly stupid people like myself, and rob your houses while you work. I have enough offspring to fill a Jerry Springer studio. I reproduce like the mighty cockroach, my descendants will inherit the earth.WAHAHAHAHA!!!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icmRCixQrx8
.....
Faith means belief without – and, increasingly these days, against – evidence. Faith, therefore, is intellectually dishonest. Faith creates a false certainty, which subjugates rationality. It makes good people do evil things and it makes otherwise intelligent people say and do senseless things. It forces its influence where it has no business. It flies airplanes into buildings."
"Faith is arrogant. It places humanity at the center of the universe and each believer as the apple of the creator’s eye. It makes Republican presidential candidates, our governor included, trade power of prayer stories at a Christian breakfast while rescue workers in Nepal search for thousands of missing people who just had their rickety roofs dropped on them by “an act of God.” Faith of this kind has long kept itself immune from critical discourse, often with violence. No more."
"I hope to maybe plant the seed of doubt in someone’s mind, the way it was planted in mine, and possibly move another person away from superstition and tribalism toward reason and acceptance of the beautiful and humbling fact that we are of the cosmos, not the point of it."
http://www.milwaukeemag.com/2015/08/17/faith-no-more/
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o-man
Social climber
Paia,Maui,HI
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Aug 18, 2015 - 01:26pm PT
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" I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy,as cause for withdrawing from a friend."
Thomas Jefferson
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MisterE
Gym climber
Being In Sierra Happy Of Place
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Aug 18, 2015 - 01:27pm PT
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Whenever my wife gets an Etsy sale:
"Yay! The glowing box brought me money!"
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o-man
Social climber
Paia,Maui,HI
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Aug 19, 2015 - 10:56am PT
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Eighth Tao
The highest good is like water.
Water gives life to the ten thousand things and does not strive.
It flows in places that men reject and is like the Tao.
In dwelling, be close to the land.
In meditation, go deep into the heart.
In dealing with others, be gentle and kind.
In speech, be true.
In ruling, be just.
In business, be competent.
In action, watch the timing.
No fight: No blame.
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 20, 2015 - 11:51pm PT
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A plane load of tourists going to see the Great Pyramids burn more enrgy than it took to build them.
Khun Duen Baad
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Aug 21, 2015 - 01:16am PT
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"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy"
" It is so big, the mind can't hold it"
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MisterE
Gym climber
Being In Sierra Happy Of Place
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Aug 29, 2015 - 09:37pm PT
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From On the Ridge Between Life and Death by David Roberts:
Some of the worst moments in my life have taken place in the mountains.
Not only the days alone in the tent on Huntington after Ed vanished--quieter moments as well, embedded in uneventful expeditions. Trying to sleep the last few hours before a pre-dawn start on a big climb, my mind stiff with dread, as I hugged my all-too-obvious fragile self with my own arms -- until the scared kid inside of my sleeping bag began to pray for bad weather and another day's reprieve.
But nowhere else on earth, not even in the harbors of reciprocal love, have I felt pure happiness to take hold of me and shake me like a puppy, compelling me, and the conspirators I had arrived there with, to stand on some perch of rock or snow, the uncertain struggle below us, and bawl our pagan vaunts to the very sky.
It was worth it then.
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feralfae
Boulder climber
in the midst of a metaphysical mystery
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Aug 29, 2015 - 09:43pm PT
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I've always like this one, since my Dad told it to me when I was 4 or 5.
Aut inveniam viam aut faciam
It is Latin for "I shall either find a way or make one." A nice motto for FAs. I have none to my credit. Yet.
:)
feralfae
o-man, I like the Eighth Tao as well. Thank you.
ff
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Splater
climber
Grey Matter
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Aug 29, 2015 - 10:34pm PT
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"I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids. "
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"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room"
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General "Buck" Turgidson: General Ripper called Strategic Air Command headquarters shortly after he issued the go code. I have a portion of the transcript of that conversation if you'd like me to to read it.
President Merkin Muffley: Read it!
General "Buck" Turgidson: Ahem... The Duty Officer asked General Ripper to confirm the fact that he *had* issued the go code, and he said, uh, "Yes gentlemen, they are on their way in, and no one can bring them back. For the sake of our country, and our way of life, I suggest you get the rest of SAC in after them. Otherwise, we will be totally destroyed by Red retaliation. Uh, my boys will give you the best kind of start, 1400 megatons worth, and you sure as hell won't stop them now, uhuh. Uh, so let's get going, there's no other choice. God willing, we will prevail, in peace and freedom from fear, and in true health, through the purity and essence of our natural... fluids. God bless you all" and he hung up.
[beat]
General "Buck" Turgidson: Uh, we're, still trying to figure out the meaning of that last phrase, sir.
President Merkin Muffley: There's nothing to figure out, General Turgidson. This man is obviously a psychotic.
General "Buck" Turgidson: We-he-ell, uh, I'd like to hold off judgement on a thing like that, sir, until all the facts are in.
President Merkin Muffley: General Turgidson! When you instituted the human reliability tests, you *assured* me there was *no* possibility of such a thing *ever* occurring!
General "Buck" Turgidson: Well, I, uh, don't think it's quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.
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o-man
Social climber
Paia,Maui,HI
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Aug 30, 2015 - 04:41pm PT
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TWP
Trad climber
Mancos, CO & Bend, OR
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"How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?"
Satchell Paige
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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First Place...
"Dude why anyone would consider your opinion regarding any book while you continue to provide evidence that your comprehension is more than lacking :("
ST's very own BLUBLOCR
Second Place...
"No more stupid than the THEORY of evolution."
ST's very own Cosmiccragsman
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o-man
Social climber
Paia,Maui,HI
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Sep 18, 2015 - 12:14am PT
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"the edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over." Hunter S Thompson.
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o-man
Social climber
Paia,Maui,HI
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Sep 18, 2015 - 11:52am PT
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"If I’m free, it’s because I’m always running” – Jimi Hendrix
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Vitaliy M.
Mountain climber
San Francisco
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Sep 18, 2015 - 12:12pm PT
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Sparky
Trad climber
vagabond movin on
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You can play a shoestring if you're sincere.
John Coltrane
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docsavage
Trad climber
Albuquerque, NM
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The trees are burning in your promised land ...
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nita
Social climber
chica de chico, I don't claim to be a daisy.
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*
*
Now I face the dull thuds of the football season -- until that blessed day when pitchers and catchers report. Gregory Crouch..
Yup...(-;
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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“Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the sea they must face up, as did men of another age, to the challenges of nature. Modern man lives in a highly synthetic kind of existence. He specializes in this and that. Rarely does he test all his powers or find himself whole. But in the hills and on the water the character of a man comes out.”- Abram T. Collier.
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perswig
climber
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Dec 26, 2015 - 04:10am PT
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If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
HWL
Dale
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Dec 26, 2015 - 10:29am PT
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"the best i could do without trying" -hooblie, highly applicable.
in fact, ^^^ that's it right there! the best i could do without trying
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overwatch
climber
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Dec 26, 2015 - 10:33am PT
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"Hoka Hey!"
Crazy Horse
it has probably already been posted but I have always been fond of the famous one by Edmund Burke
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TWP
Trad climber
Mancos, CO & Bend, OR
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Dec 26, 2015 - 11:39am PT
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An extremely versatile quote to deal with that favorite indoor sport of counterfactual speculation; I use it often:
"If my aunt had balls, she'd be my uncle."
A drawing room versions of same:
"If my aunt (or grandma) had wheels, she'd be a streetcar (or a trolley)."
Other versions:
If pigs had wings they would fly.
If wishes were horses beggars would ride.
If we had ham we could make a ham and cheese sandwich if we had cheese.
If my uncle had tits, he'd be my aunt.
If the queen had balls she'd be the king.
Versions from other languages, translated to English:
"If grandma had a moustache, she'd be grandpa." (from Polish).
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Gary
Social climber
Where in the hell is Major Kong?
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Dec 28, 2015 - 08:13am PT
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"My mind is going. I can feel it." -- HAL 9000
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Dec 28, 2015 - 08:30am PT
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The prerequisite of contrapuntal art, more conspicuous in the work of Bach than in that of any other composer, is an ability to conceive a priori of melodic identities which when transposed, inverted, made retrograde, or transformed rhythmically will yet exhibit, in conjunction with the original subject matter, some entirely new but completely harmonious profile. Glenn Gould
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EdwardT
Trad climber
Retired
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Dec 29, 2015 - 04:37am PT
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This old porch is a steamin' greasy plate of enchiladas
With lots of cheese and onions and a guacamole salad
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overwatch
climber
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Dec 29, 2015 - 06:39am PT
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Glenn Gould sounds like the life of the party
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Lollie
Social climber
I'm Lolli.
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Dec 29, 2015 - 07:29pm PT
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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rand0M aXiS
Trad climber
Felipe Carrillo Puerto, QR, Mexico
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Dec 30, 2015 - 12:02am PT
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A Smith & Wesson beats four aces.
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d-know
Trad climber
electric lady land
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"Time will get me i know."
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steveA
Trad climber
Wolfeboro, NH
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"If your going to solo, fall early" Jim Donini said that to me once.
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Stewart
Trad climber
Courtenay, B.C.
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It is very easy to hate a Nazi, a guardian in a Gulag. But the real danger is not them. It is the decent people who compromise with evil.
-Jacobo Timerman
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MikeMc
Social climber
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“I find your lack of faith disturbing.”
–Darth Vader
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MisterE
Gym climber
Small Town with a Big Back Yard
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Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
--Buddha
I find that in contemplating the natural world my pleasure is greater if there are not too many others contemplating it with me, at the same time.
--Edward Abbey
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perswig
climber
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Jan 17, 2016 - 06:44am PT
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The chair is against the wall. The chair is against the wall.
Dale
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Jan 17, 2016 - 07:55am PT
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"Hold on to your divine blush, your innate rosy magic, or end up brown. Once you're brown, you'll find out you're blue. As blue as indigo. And you know what that means.
Indigo. Indigoing. Idigone."
Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
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d-know
Trad climber
electric lady land
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Jan 23, 2016 - 03:38pm PT
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“The world is like a ride in an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it's very brightly coloured and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time and they begin to question: "Is this real, or is this just a ride?" And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they say, "Hey, don't worry, don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride." And we kill those people.”
Bill Hicks.
Love and respect.
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johntp
Trad climber
socal
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Jan 23, 2016 - 03:53pm PT
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Sorry man. Are you okay?
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d-know
Trad climber
electric lady land
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Jan 23, 2016 - 04:08pm PT
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Don't be sorry,
be grateful.
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MisterE
Gym climber
Small Town with a Big Back Yard
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Jan 23, 2016 - 08:58pm PT
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"A woman is like a tea-bag, you don't know how strong she is until she is in hot water."
--Eleanor Roosevelt
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thebravecowboy
climber
The Good Places
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"F*#k it Dude, let's go climbing."
Walter Sobchak
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Tung Gwok
Mountain climber
South Bend, Indiana
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An unlived life is not worth examining.
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d-know
Trad climber
electric lady land
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Feb 10, 2016 - 05:04pm PT
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Do it for your mother
do it for yourself
but most important
do it for everybody
else.
Love and respect.
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TWP
Trad climber
Mancos, CO & Bend, OR
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Feb 10, 2016 - 05:38pm PT
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I offer this quote, which I can authenicate that i actually composed, and told me wife, today, after my morning meditation, which turned into a rehash of my unsuccessful efforts to offer unsolicited, but very good advice.
"Ye may leadth thy woman verily to Eden yet she abideth not, lest appear did but follow ye."
Thus Spoketh Jezbo
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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Mar 10, 2016 - 08:06am PT
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"One day you're the c*#k of the walk, the next a feather duster."
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
ne'er–do–well
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Mar 12, 2016 - 11:22pm PT
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2,500 up the Shield on El Capitan, in boardshorts, in a lightning storm, is a different “thing” than a milk shake or a cockroach.
~ John Long
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nita
Social climber
chica de chico, I don't claim to be a daisy.
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Mar 13, 2016 - 10:19am PT
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"Don't say that we've got time: that shrouded thief of life, slips away when we pay no mind."
Gaelynn Lea
Winner of tiny dest contest.
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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Mar 14, 2016 - 07:44pm PT
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"So Peter, Aubrey is talking about picking up on the subtleties of social interaction." -Probst
"Absolutely. As an ER Doctor, social interaction is what I am a professional in."
Peter, Survivor contestant, Kaoh Rong
Moments before his only teammate gets blindsided and voted out (no clue)
Ha!!!11
..
"If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus. The vast extent of the Roman Empire was governed by absolute power, under the guidance of virtue and wisdom. The armies were restrained by the firm but gentle hand of four successive emperors, whose characters and authority commanded respect. The forms of the civil administration were carefully preserved by Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian and the Antonines, who delighted in the image of liberty, and were pleased with considering themselves as the accountable ministers of the laws. Such princes deserved the honour of restoring the republic, had the Romans of their days been capable of enjoying a rational freedom."
Edward Gibbon
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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perswig
climber
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Mar 19, 2016 - 02:59pm PT
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And yet in this very silence of Nature in her gentler moods there is a rhythm, as it were, that, acting on the spirit, charms and soothes, -- a chord whose each successive vibration, emanating from some wondrous hidden source, acts with varying force upon our rougher nature, harmonizes at each pulsation its rude components, and moulds us insensibly into better, truer beings.
Lucius L. Hubbard
Dale
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o-man
Social climber
Paia,Maui,HI
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Mar 28, 2016 - 05:55pm PT
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"To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself."
Soren Kierkegaard
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Winemaker
Sport climber
Yakima, WA
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Mar 28, 2016 - 09:29pm PT
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"What's the point of a revolution without general copulation?"
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
--Abraham "Five Bucks" Lincoln
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Gary
Social climber
Where in the hell is Major Kong?
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Apr 19, 2016 - 12:21pm PT
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"Those heroes that shed their blood and lost their lives... you are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and the Mehmets to us where they lie side by side here in this country of ours... You the mothers who sent their sons from far away countries wipe away your tears. Your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace. After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well." - Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 20, 2016 - 08:09pm PT
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My bike is the most important thing I have. It is my gym, my wheelchair and my church all in one.
Bill Walten... ex NBA star. Now 63 years old.
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Fossil climber
Trad climber
Atlin, B. C.
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Apr 20, 2016 - 08:41pm PT
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"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds..." (Emerson).
Or, in the same vein, "A bureaucrat is someone who says no! - and then searches the files for a precedent."
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pud
climber
Sportbikeville & Yucca brevifolia
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Apr 23, 2016 - 08:06pm PT
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“I Think it is lost.....but nothing is ever lost nor can be lost.
The body sluggish, aged, cold, the ember left from earlier fires
shall duly flame again.”
― Walt Whitman
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splitter
Trad climber
HighwayToHell
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May 15, 2016 - 06:09am PT
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"WHO'S AFRAID OF THE BIG BAD WOLF?"
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MisterE
Gym climber
Small Town with a Big Back Yard
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May 15, 2016 - 08:11am PT
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“Don't trust anybody who'd rather be grammatically correct than have a good time.”
― Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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May 25, 2016 - 05:55am PT
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"The more eastern regions of Asia were populated by Homo erectus, ‘Upright Man’, who survived there for close to 2 million years, making it the most durable human species ever. This record is unlikely to be broken even by our own species. It is doubtful whether Homo sapiens will still be around a thousand years from now, so 2 million years is really out of our league."
Sapiens - A Brief History of Humankind
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yanqui
climber
Balcarce, Argentina
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May 25, 2016 - 06:29am PT
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"Back off, man. I'm a scientist."
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ruppell
climber
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May 25, 2016 - 07:04am PT
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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May 25, 2016 - 02:49pm PT
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If you want to go fast, go alone.
If you want to go far, go together.
If you want to go far and fast...
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MisterE
Gym climber
Small Town with a Big Back Yard
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May 26, 2016 - 06:15pm PT
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Edge
Trad climber
Betwixt and Between Nederland & Boulder, CO
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May 26, 2016 - 06:32pm PT
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"This being human is a guest house, be grateful for whoever comes." Rumi
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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May 28, 2016 - 08:16am PT
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re: "legal fiction"
"A legal fiction is a fact assumed or created by courts which is then used in order to apply a legal rule. Typically, a legal fiction allows the court to ignore a fact that would prevent it from exercising its jurisdiction, by simply assuming that the fact is different."
"The term legal fiction is not usually used in a pejorative way, and has been likened to scaffolding around a building under construction."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_fiction
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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"I hate double standards!!! Some girl gets a vibrator and it's seen as a bit of naughty fun, but when I ordered my 240Volt FuccMaster Pro5000 blowup latex doll with 6 speed revolving pussy, elasticated anus with imitation sh#t dribble and breast nipple discharge, non-drip semen collection tray, together with optional built in realistic rape scream sound system, I'm apparently a dirty fuccin pervert!!" -Smith
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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“We are no longer the same, you wiser but not sadder, and I sadder but not wiser, for wiser I could hardly become without grave personal inconvenience, whereas sorrow is a thing you can keep adding to all your life long, is it not, like a stamp or an egg collection, without feeling very much the worse for it, is it not.”
Watt
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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“But he had turned, little by little, a disturbance into words, he had made a pillow of old words, for his head.”
What? yes, Watt...
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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"Sometimes I wonder if common sense is actually uncommon in the land. Maybe it's a rare commodity to be cultivated & cherished." -Neil deGrasse Tyson
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o-man
Social climber
Paia,Maui,HI
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"No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty. Whether as seen carving the lines of the mountains with glaciers, or gathering matter into stars, or planning the movement of water... - still all is beauty!" John Muir
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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"There's two things in this world that more than anything else make me wonder:
The stars above me...
and the moral law inside me..."
As I remember Zapffe...
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perswig
climber
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Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas,
Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please
Whose epitaph?
Dale
(edit for spelling, I'm embarrassed to say)
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Gary
Social climber
Where in the hell is Major Kong?
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The Faerie Queene is the most extended and extensive meditation on sex in the history of poetry. It charts the entire erotic spectrum, a great chain of being rising from matter to spirit, from the coarsest lust to chastity and romantic idealism. The poem’s themes of sex and politics are parallel: the psyche, like society, must be disciplined by good government. Spenser agrees with the classical and Christian philosophers on the primacy of reason over animal appetites. He looks forward to the Romantic poets, however, in the way that he shows the sex impulse as ultimately daemonic and barbaric, breeding witches and sorcerers of evil allure. Like the Odyssey, The Faerie Queene is a heroic epic in which the masculine must evade female traps or delays.
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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Jun 17, 2016 - 06:26am PT
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"For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either. The ends of things and their beginnings are impregnably concealed from him in an impenetrable secret. He is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness out of which he was drawn and the infinite in which he is engulfed."
Blaise Pascal
...
re: consciousness, sentience
"I feel therefore I am conscious." -hfcs
Only two hits at google right now. Surprised how low the number. So I wanted to add my name to the roster.
....
re: the new global empire
"As of 2014, the world is still politically fragmented, but states are fast losing their independence. Not one of them is really able to execute independent economic policies, to declare and wage wars as it pleases, or even to run its own internal affairs as it sees fit. States are increasingly open to the machinations of global markets, to the interference of global companies and NGOs, and to the supervision of global public opinion and the international judicial system. States are obliged to conform to global standards of financial behaviour, environmental policy and justice. Immensely powerful currents of capital, labour and information turn and shape the world, with a growing disregard for the borders and opinions of states."
"The global empire being forged before our eyes is not governed by any particular state or ethnic group. Much like the Late Roman Empire, it is ruled by a multi-ethnic elite, and is held together by a common culture and common interests. Throughout the world, more and more entrepreneurs, engineers, experts, scholars, lawyers and managers are called to join the empire. They must ponder whether to answer the imperial call or to remain loyal to their state and their people. More and more choose the empire."
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Harari
...
" The Universe doesn't have a purpose, free will is an illusion, and quantum physics is beautiful. Now you know me." Jim Al-Khalili... physicist, author, broadcaster and humanist --
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perswig
climber
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Jul 16, 2016 - 07:18am PT
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...I felt a little like a dying clown, with a streak of Rin Tin Tin...
What he said.
Dale
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
ne'er–do–well
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Jul 16, 2016 - 10:17pm PT
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Adventurer
Mountain climber
Virginia
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Jul 17, 2016 - 03:20am PT
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"When you travel, if you avoid the people, reject the food, and fear the religion, then you might as well stay home."
"Parental success is not measured by what parents are able to do for their children, but rather by what children grow up able to do for themselves."
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perswig
climber
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Jul 24, 2016 - 04:13am PT
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It’s as if someone decided to outlaw ducks and beavers and nature said, “Piss off. Behold the platypus.”
Dale
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anita514
Gym climber
Great White North
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Jul 25, 2016 - 06:29pm PT
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Who doth molest my contemplation?
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o-man
Social climber
Paia,Maui,HI
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Jul 30, 2016 - 08:12pm PT
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"There isn't any finer folks living than a Republican that votes the Democratic ticket." — Will Rogers
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Aug 16, 2016 - 07:46am PT
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You can't help but compare yourself against the old-timers.
Can't help but wonder how they'd have operated in these times.
--Sheriff Tom Bell in No Country for Old Men
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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Aug 22, 2016 - 03:05pm PT
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"We rise and fall to the level of our training."
-adapted from Archilochus
...
"As long as you're trending in the right direction, it doesn't matter if you're losing."
-Tim Ferriss, the monkey mind episode
...
What are your tips for developing mental toughness?
Eliminate any types of excuses or "outs." Don't think, just do. And when it gets painful, focus on little chunks. -Amelia Boone
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splitter
Trad climber
HighwayToHell
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Sep 11, 2016 - 05:39pm PT
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WHO THE F*#K ARE YOU? ~ AmericasMostUnwanted
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Leggs
Sport climber
Made in California
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Sep 12, 2016 - 06:48pm PT
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*truth
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Adventurer
Mountain climber
Virginia
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Sep 13, 2016 - 05:49am PT
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A few days ago, while out for a walk around a local pond, I met an elderly woman walking in the opposite direction. She was using one of those wheeled assist walkers and I noticed that she was also using an oxygen tank. She had a small dog leashed to the walker and she was kind of limping along, her body bent slightly forward.
We exchanged greetings and when I said, "that's a nice little dog you have there", her response was this: "Thank you but it's not my dog. I'm walking her for a neighbor who can't do it because she's having some health problems"!!!!
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Sep 13, 2016 - 07:13am PT
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^^ Cool.
"Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta."
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HermitMaster
Social climber
my abode
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Sep 14, 2016 - 06:28am PT
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"The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order."
--- Alvin Toffler
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 14, 2016 - 11:41am PT
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"There are only two stories in all of literature-a man takes a jourrney, a stranger comes to town." - Tolstoi
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Radish
Trad climber
SeKi, California
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Sep 14, 2016 - 12:20pm PT
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If every Vote really counted, they probably wouldn't have us Vote....Mark Twain
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Mark Force
Trad climber
Ashland, Oregon
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Sep 14, 2016 - 02:01pm PT
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perswig
climber
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I don't caucus. DMT
Charlie don't surf. LTC Kilgore
Dale
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Leggs
Sport climber
Made in California
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Oct 21, 2016 - 07:51am PT
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Live in the sunshine
Swim in the sea
Drink the wild air
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Oct 21, 2016 - 08:02am PT
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“Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.” -- Leo Tolstoy
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Rollover
climber
Gross Vegas
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Oct 21, 2016 - 09:29am PT
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"A drink a day keeps the shrink away."
Edward Abbey
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Oct 21, 2016 - 09:57am PT
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"Criminals, are the people we punish for being a nuisance; artists are the people we reward for being a nuisance; successful businessmen are criminals disguised as artists and therefore often rewarded and not punished for being a nuisance."
"“Know thyself” was the Socratic dictum, but Tyler Durden, the protagonist in the movie Fight Club, asks, “How much can you know about yourself if you’ve never been in a fight?” Although trainers of the bruising art wince at the notion that boxing equals fighting, there can be no doubt that boxing throws you up against yourself in revealing ways. Take a left hook to the body or a trip to the canvas, and you soon find out whether you are the kind of person who will ever get up.
Mario Cesar Kindelan Mesa"
"All Shakespeare’s tragic heroes — Othello, Macbeth, Lear, even Hamlet — have plenty of courage; what they lack is prudence and judgment. Between bravery and craft, Shakespeare always prefers craft, and between stupid courage and intelligent cowardice he is always with those who run away, with Falstaff, not Hotspur. He had seen — on a pitiful scale through the example of his father, on a horrific one through the example of the Catholic martyrs — what conviction coupled with a lack of realism could get you."
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Adventurer
Mountain climber
Virginia
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Oct 21, 2016 - 11:05am PT
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"Technology gives us the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship"
Sherry Turkle
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Leggs
Sport climber
Made in California, living in The Old Pueblo
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10b4me
Mountain climber
Retired
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Nov 13, 2016 - 03:09pm PT
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Dr. Sprock..... I take great offense at your continuing threats against our nation.
I just forwarded your posts, along with information on this site, to the FBI.
Cragman
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Leggs
Sport climber
Made in California, living in The Old Pueblo
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Nov 21, 2016 - 03:08pm PT
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Leggs
Sport climber
Made in California, living in The Old Pueblo
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Nov 21, 2016 - 08:50pm PT
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^^^^^^Awwwww, YOU! :)
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Leggs
Sport climber
Made in California, living in The Old Pueblo
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Nov 21, 2016 - 08:53pm PT
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Craig, I spied this quote on the fridge while enjoying an intimate, homemade dinner tonight...
Xx peace
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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Nov 30, 2016 - 11:04am PT
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"Life is hard, no wonder people are corrupted by it." -Jordan Peterson
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perswig
climber
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Nov 30, 2016 - 11:36am PT
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Nothing in life should simply be a passage from one place to another. Each walk should be taken as if it is the only thing you have left.
Dale
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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Good one, Dale.
...
This ain't a favorite but it is instructional...
"In my lifetime I have murdered 21 human beings, I have committed thousands of burglaries, robberies, larcenies, arsons and, last but not least, I have committed sodomy on more than 1,000 male human beings. For all these things I am not in the least bit sorry. -Carl Panzram
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Panzram
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Peater
Trad climber
Salt Lake City Ut.
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Someone asked John Bachar: Why do you climb?
He replied: There's nothing better to do.
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rbord
Boulder climber
atlanta
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"Obama is a little girl who soiled his panties."
And in response to someone else saying Obama is the man! :
"So is his wife."
the righteous stand-up "white daddy knows best" white father role model of a black daughter
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
ne'er–do–well
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... hard-on for Obama?
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rbord
Boulder climber
atlanta
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Nah, I don't think so. Trump's quotable role modelling seems to be more about having a hard-on for his own daughter.
But I think the white father of a black daughter choosing to call a black woman role model "a man" is about something else.
The quote from the other side Is "When they go low, we go high." But maybe that's not the lesson that he wants a black woman role modelling for his black daughter.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Random fights to prove worthless points. That's what it means being an American Republican these days...
Now they rule...
All you need is a bunch of money, a bunch of lawyers ...
and a well chosen sortiment of prejudices to attract the mob...
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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re: predation and human evil
"but we can certainly talk about it in practical darwinian terms..."
"You better know what's after you. And the worst thing that can possible be after you is a fully motivated and completely malevolent human being. It's like skull crushing cats be damned. All they want to do is eat you. They're not going to torture you. Whereas if you fall into the hands of the wrong human being, you can be in excruciating pain for the next 20 years. People are very imaginative when they figure out how to hurt someone, and they can keep it up for a long time. And they are fully motivated to do so under some conditions. So you really have to watch out for that."
Jordan Peterson
Maps of Meaning
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What we haven't heard in a church sermon at least not very much...
"If you're wrong about something and you fall into a pit then you should let go of what you're wrong about so that something new can arise." -Jordan Peterson ala the myth of the Phoenix
Re beauty and beast myth...
"The best thing you want is a civilized bad guy. It's like that's what you want. Well no wonder. Because it's only a civilized bad guy that's going to be capable of dealing with the dragons."
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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"We didn't come here to check them out, we came here to check them off."
Really a fantastic quote. I didn't hear him say it, but I believe I heard who did.
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10b4me
Mountain climber
Retired
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Byran
climber
Half Dome Village
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If we are awed by the powers of man, the learned animal, we must also be appalled that he has been such a slow learner. And there has been no greater obstacle to his learning than the stock of accumulated learning that he has made for himself with his illusions of knowledge.
Daniel Boorstin
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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his illusions of knowledge...
Indeed, and no finer example than in the case of the Abrahamic revelations. (To any educated, nonreligious person, how absurd from the perspective of the modern age.)
But the good news: Albeit slowly we are updating our cultural knowledge systems and beliefs. And millenials value this (evidence-based) updating better than previous generations. Therein is the hope.
First they have to get past the social-media driven challenges of "fake news" and "post-truth" bs though.
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Dec 13, 2016 - 04:35pm PT
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The only church that illuminates is a burning church. -- Buenaventura Durruti
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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Dec 26, 2016 - 08:15am PT
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"Not my circus, not my monkeys."
A Polish proverb that I plan to use often in 2017.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Dec 26, 2016 - 09:03am PT
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"The whole modern conception of the world is founded on the illusion that the so-called laws of nature are the explanations of natural phenomena." Ludwig Wittgenstein - Tractatus
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nita
Social climber
chica de chico, I don't claim to be a daisy.
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Jan 29, 2017 - 10:15am PT
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"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. "
Desmond Tutu
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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"Sure, Atlanta's up big now, but wait until the Comey letter drops in the 4th quarter"
Hans Noel
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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Feb 10, 2017 - 11:29am PT
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"Contrary to popular lamentation, humans are getting better and better at getting along." -Joshua Greene, Moral Tribes
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Edge
Trad climber
Betwixt and Between Nederland & Boulder, CO
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Feb 24, 2017 - 06:11pm PT
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"Discovery consists of seeing what everyone else has seen, and thinking what no one else has thought."
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perswig
climber
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Mar 19, 2017 - 01:08pm PT
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If in all things I consider only the heat and the cold, the food or the hunger, the sickness or labor, the beauty or pleasure, the success and failure or the material good or evil my works have won for my own will, I will find only emptiness and not happiness. I shall not be fed, I shall not be full. -- T. Merton
Dale
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Norton
Social climber
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Mar 19, 2017 - 01:18pm PT
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He is doing the best he can, with what the lord gave him to work with
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Lollie
Social climber
I'm Lolli.
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Apr 24, 2017 - 01:38pm PT
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“Sincerity - if you can fake that, you've got it made.”
#mybesttrick
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Apr 24, 2017 - 02:47pm PT
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"Tracing the right of property back to its source, one infallibly arrives at usurpation. However, theft is only punished because it violates the right of property; but this right is itself nothing in origin but theft." -- Cliven Bundy
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perswig
climber
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I've found that whiskey is a better misery beverage, although I tend to get less done towards solving my actual problem.
Dale
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WBraun
climber
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Why are you really on this planet? -- Duck
Supertopo forum members answer --- No one knows
Duck --- such a stoopid answer ....
:-)
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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"If you think about it, we were born in an amazing generation... Look at all these classics we can find on the Internet. There's a massive library of great songs right here on Youtube, and we can choose from whatever era we want to listen to. Pretty awesome." -Danny Dolan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDxhugRKZ8g
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Mark Force
Trad climber
Ashland, Oregon
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"Be kind whenever posssible. It is always possible."
~ Dalai Lama
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10b4me
Mountain climber
Retired
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These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph
Thomas Paine
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Larry Nelson
Social climber
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May 10, 2017 - 12:09pm PT
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"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts."
Richard Feynman
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divad
Trad climber
wmass
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May 10, 2017 - 02:11pm PT
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Promises, all lies and jest
Still, a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest
Paul Simon
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nita
Social climber
chica de chico, I don't claim to be a daisy.
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May 12, 2017 - 09:20am PT
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"The slow-rising central horror of ‘Watergate’ is not that it might grind down to the reluctant impeachment of a vengeful thug of a president whose entire political career has been a monument to the same kind of cheap shots and treachery he finally got nailed for, but that we might somehow fail to learn something from it.”
-Hunter S. Thompson, 1974
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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May 12, 2017 - 09:36am PT
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Johnny's dilemma is coping with a world that is changing in front of him. He doesn't know what to do, except to lose his temper, mouth his poisons, look elsewhere to fix the blame for his own discomfort. He isn't a totally evil man. He's shrewd. But he won't get to the root of his problem, because the root of his problem is himself, and he doesn't know it.
Well, and then Johnny voted for Trump...
... poor guy...
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splitter
Trad climber
HighwayToHell
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Jun 22, 2017 - 02:23pm PT
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If it's your last moment on earth, you outta get the most out of it. ~ Jeff Lowe
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Q- Ball
Mountain climber
but to scared to climb them anymore
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Jun 22, 2017 - 02:31pm PT
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"John Wayne never wore Lycra" comment from John long? At a climbing competition while wearing blue jeans.
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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Jul 26, 2017 - 10:09am PT
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" America, as in Australia, such a constant drumbeat of guilt changes a people’s natural feelings about their own past. It transforms feelings of patriotism into shame or at the very least into deeply mixed emotions, and troubling effects result from this. A country that believes it has never done any wrong is a country that could do wrong at any time. But a country that believes it has only done wrong, or done such a terrible, unalleviated amount of wrong in the past, is likely to become a country that is inclined to doubt its ability to ever do any good in the future. It makes a country nervous about itself whatever the wisdom of its actions. Embedding the idea of original sin in a nation is the best possible way to breed self-doubt. National original sin suggests you can do little by way of good because you were rotten from the start."
Bruce Murray
The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam
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clifff
Mountain climber
golden, rollin hills of California
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Jul 26, 2017 - 11:49am PT
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"The slow-rising central horror of ‘Watergate’ is not that it might grind down to the reluctant impeachment of a vengeful thug of a president whose entire political career has been a monument to the same kind of cheap shots and treachery he finally got nailed for, but that we might somehow fail to learn something from it.”
This is a total misconception. What brought Nixon down was not the bad things he was doing but all the very good things he was up to:
Endangered Species Act
Environmental Protection Agency
Clean Water Act
Clean Air Act
Earth Week
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Nation Environmental Policy Act
Mammal Marine Protection Act
Peace with China - He undid years of insane anti-communist propaganda in an instant.
The hydrophobic right wing oligarchy were horrified with what he was doing and wanted him out asap.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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"From the story he told me, I pictured him among those bands of vagrants that in the years that followed I saw more and more often roaming about Europe: false monks, financial analysts, charlatans, swindlers, property salesmen, cheats, tramps and tatterdemalions, jugglers, invalid mercenaries, lunatics, fugitives under banishment, malefactors with the ears cut off, sodomites, and along with them ambulant artisans, weavers, tinkers, chair-menders, knife-grinders, basket-weavers, masons, and also rogues of every stripe, forgers, scoundrels, cardsharps, rascals, bullies, reprobates, recreants, frauds, hooligans ...."
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TWP
Trad climber
Mancos, CO & Bend, OR
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Marlow:
Please give source, citation, author for above quote.
Sounds like it resides within a larger work well worth reading.
Thanks.
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perswig
climber
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^^
The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco.
Arguably one of his most accessible novels; Marlow's quote I think is actually just a partial (edit: 'course it is, hence the ellipse, duh!). There are some amazing lists throughout the book.
Dale
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splitter
Trad climber
HighwayToHell
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Aug 17, 2017 - 03:23pm PT
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Love conquers all!
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AidanPunts
Sport climber
Victoria, BC
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Aug 17, 2017 - 04:11pm PT
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"that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius, are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man’s achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins"
-Bertrand Russell
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Aug 17, 2017 - 04:15pm PT
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Hard to conjecture the debris of a Universe. In ruins, no less.
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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Aug 18, 2017 - 02:14am PT
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Shoot low, they're riding Shetlands! --Traditional
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10b4me
Mountain climber
Retired
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Aug 18, 2017 - 06:18pm PT
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Yet more politard threads will spring up on the Taco Stand.
-madbolter1
Lol
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Mad69Dog
Ice climber
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Aug 19, 2017 - 09:57am PT
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I climb as hard as anyone on earth
I just do it on easier routes
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Aug 21, 2017 - 11:22am PT
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The best thing to say, when you have nothing to say, is to say nothing at all... Pardon me...
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Winemaker
Sport climber
Yakima, WA
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Aug 24, 2017 - 04:48pm PT
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Lollie
Social climber
I'm Lolli.
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Sep 18, 2017 - 05:05pm PT
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Judgment is not upon all occasions required, but discretion always is.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady.
Keith Miller
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Sep 18, 2017 - 05:25pm PT
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"We are all worms. But I do believe that I am a glow-worm." Winston Churchill
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Sep 18, 2017 - 05:30pm PT
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"The person having the most fun is climbing." Anonymous.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Sep 18, 2017 - 05:46pm PT
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"The person having the most fun is bowling." - The Big Lebowski
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Sep 18, 2017 - 06:24pm PT
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"You know, she is a virgin, she just doesn't give a f*#k"
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divad
Trad climber
wmass
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Sep 18, 2017 - 07:03pm PT
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Sometimes you have to toss the tea into the harbor.
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Lennox
climber
just southwest of the center of the universe
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Sep 19, 2017 - 10:14pm PT
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Rocket man is on a suicide mission . . .
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Sep 20, 2017 - 06:50am PT
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“There's no money in poetry, but there's no poetry in money, either.”
― Robert Graves
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WBraun
climber
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Sep 20, 2017 - 07:11am PT
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Sep 20, 2017 - 08:54am PT
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"It has been 241 years since Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence," Warren Buffet said. "Being short America has been a loser's game. I predict to you it will continue to be a loser's game."
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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Sep 25, 2017 - 10:42am PT
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"This song fits any mood, situation, event, time of the day, etc. I can imagine myself driving in my car with my windows down as the sun sets and this playing in the background. But I can also imagine myself going into a fit of rage and bloodying my hand on a wall while this plays. I could make out to this song, get drunk, get dumped, scream in an empty field, roam around an amusement park, sleep, pick flowers or do literally anything while this plays and somehow it would still be appropriate." -Hannah
[Click to View YouTube Video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4UtBYUMVJk
Orig, shorter version...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ANlWQy7-I0
Beta: (1) Try it out gym climbing your project. (2) Add to your favorite sexual/ sensual playlist.
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Sep 25, 2017 - 11:27am PT
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"Everything in moderation - including moderation."
-Sierra Ledge Rat, 1984
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Sep 25, 2017 - 12:32pm PT
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"We haven't been slumming in a while." - me 91 yr old mum today
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Sep 28, 2017 - 10:03am PT
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Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. I trust you are not in too much distress.
British Airways Captain Eric Moody after his 747 flew into the volcanic ejecta of an unreported eruption, at night! Of course they sorted it out and then had a nice cuppa.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_9
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Don Lauria
Trad climber
Bishop, CA
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Sep 28, 2017 - 10:55am PT
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Yesterday is ashes.
Tomorrow is green wood.
Only today does the fire burn brightly.
- Eskimo Proverb
My uncle Sammy was an angry man.
He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at?
- Margaret Smith
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Sep 28, 2017 - 11:01am PT
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"Cast a cold eye/ On life, on death/ Horseman, pass by."
Yeats
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originalpmac
Mountain climber
Timbers of Fennario
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Sep 28, 2017 - 11:19pm PT
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Indeed there has been no time in human history when mountains and mountaineering have had so much to offer... We need to rediscover the vast, harmonious pattern of the natural world of which we are a part-the infinite complexities of its myriad components, the miraculous simplicity of the whole. We need to learn again those essential qualities in our own selves which make us what we are: the energy of our bodies, the alertness of our minds; curiosity and the desire to satisfy it, fear and the will to conquer it. The mountain way may well be a way of escape-from cities and men, from turmoil and doubt, from the perplexities and uncertainties that thread our lives. But in the truest sense, it is not an escape from reality but to reality.
That men have climbed the Matterhorn and Denali, Aconcagua and Nanda Devi... means little. That should want to climb them and try to climb them means everything. For it is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is never more a man than when he is striving for what is beyond his grasp, and there is no conquest worth winning save that over his own weakness and ignorance and fear."
-James Ramsey Ullman in "High Conquest" 1942
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Sep 28, 2017 - 11:44pm PT
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“All mountain landscapes hold stories: the ones we read, the ones we dream, and the ones we create.
-from the Editor's Note, The Alpinist (April 1, 2010)”
― George Michael Sinclair Kennedy
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Larry Nelson
Social climber
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Sep 29, 2017 - 12:35pm PT
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"The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase." - Yogi Berra
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Larry Nelson
Social climber
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Sep 29, 2017 - 12:37pm PT
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An unknown comic once said about Jack Benny, "he could not ad lib a belch after a Hungarian dinner".
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Larry Nelson
Social climber
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Sep 29, 2017 - 12:41pm PT
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Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children.
Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.
Tim Allen
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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Oct 18, 2017 - 10:25am PT
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"Here's a riddle, it's a killer
Who the hell is William Miller?"
Ouch.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Oct 22, 2017 - 05:03pm PT
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Oct 22, 2017 - 08:42pm PT
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“The whole face of the country as far as the eye can reach looks like a well shaved bowlinggreen, in which immence and numerous herds of buffaloe were seen feeding attended by their scarcely less numerous shepherds the Wolves.” Meriwether Lewis describing the upper Missouri plains of Montana
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Lorenzo
Trad climber
Portland Oregon
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Oct 23, 2017 - 02:35am PT
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The perverted ingenuity of man has given water the power of intoxication where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.
Plinus Maximus Secundus
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Oct 23, 2017 - 06:03pm PT
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Though your son might be killed in front of your tepee,
you should take a peace pipe and smoke.
Then you would be an honest chief.
--Sweet Medicine
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Oct 23, 2017 - 06:31pm PT
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d-know
Trad climber
electric lady land
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Oct 24, 2017 - 08:59am PT
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I alone am.
Buddha.
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Gunkie
Trad climber
Valles Marineris
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Oct 25, 2017 - 06:34am PT
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May have been posted previously, but one of my favorite lines/quotes from a movie, climbing related or not...
Anderl Meier: You're very good. I have really enjoyed climbing with you.
Dr. Jonathan Hemlock: We'll make it.
Anderl Meier: I don't think so. But we shall continue with style.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Oct 27, 2017 - 09:12am PT
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"It’s all about the intensity. Birdwatching is also intense,
if a little less physical and dangerous."
-Reilly Moss, daredevil extraordinaire
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 28, 2017 - 06:04am PT
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Don't know where/who its from, but pretty good...
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Climbers can understand this, no?
"Ask not ('tis forbidden knowledge), what our destined term of years,
Mine and yours; nor scan the tables of your Babylonish seers.
Better far to bear the future, my Leuconoe, like the past,
Whether Jove has many winters yet to give, or this our last;
This, that makes the Tyrrhene billows spend their strength against the shore.
Strain your wine and prove your wisdom; life is short; should hope be more?
In the moment of our talking, envious time has ebb'd away.
Seize the present; trust tomorrow e'en as little as you may." -- Horace
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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"My only unattractive quality is my bad judgement in free-time activities."
--Hank Caylor
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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"As long as I live under the capitalistic system, I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people. But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp.
This, sir, is my resignation." -- William Faulkner resigning from his job as postmaster at Ole Miss.
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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Nov 26, 2017 - 06:28pm PT
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"If this is who we are or who we are becoming, I have wasted 40 years of my life. Until now it was not possible for me to conceive of an American President capable of such an outrageous assault on truth, a free press or the first amendment."
Michael Hayden,
Four-star general
Director of the National Security Agency
Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence
Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
In response to...
"@FoxNews is MUCH more important in the United States than CNN, but outside of the U.S., CNN International is still a major source of (Fake) news, and they represent our Nation to the WORLD very poorly. The outside world does not see the truth from them!" Trump tweet 25 nov 2017
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Nov 26, 2017 - 06:41pm PT
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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Nov 26, 2017 - 07:00pm PT
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“One of the most powerful forces in history is human stupidity."
Yuval Harari
Sapiens
Homo Deus
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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Nov 27, 2017 - 09:17am PT
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"All I want for Christmas is for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to invite the Obamas to the royal wedding and not the trumps." -Imani
lol
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 1, 2017 - 08:28am PT
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Dec 19, 2017 - 10:24pm PT
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The great thing about ST is that the collective memory is better than any individual's.
--Jan
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Dr Lefttoe
Gym climber
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Dec 19, 2017 - 10:36pm PT
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No man should be so poor that he need sit on a pumpkin. -HDT
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divad
Trad climber
wmass
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Dec 20, 2017 - 05:09am PT
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"If we can't sell this to the American people, we're in the wrong business."
Mitch McConnell
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Dec 20, 2017 - 05:40am PT
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After the 1865 accident on the Matterhorn,
Queen Victoria considered banning British subjects from participating in mountain climbing,
To wit, Edward Whymper penned the following:
"Climb if you will but remember that courage and strength are naught without prudence,
and that a momentary negligence may destroy the happiness of a lifetime.
Do nothing in haste,
look well to each step,
and from the beginning think what might be the end."
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 20, 2018 - 06:35am PT
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A few hours mountain climbing turns a rogue and a saint into two roughly equal creatures. Weariness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity—and liberty is finally added by sleep. —Nietzsche
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TWP
Trad climber
Mancos, CO & Bend, OR
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Feb 11, 2018 - 10:47am PT
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Great Source of Quotes:
The Analects of Confucius
http://www.acmuller.net/con-dao/analects.html
For example:
"[1:16] The Master said: I am not bothered by the fact that I am unknown. I am bothered when I do not know others.”
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feralfae
Boulder climber
in the midst of a metaphysical mystery
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Feb 11, 2018 - 10:56am PT
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"Invited or not, God is present."
Carl Jung
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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Feb 13, 2018 - 07:39am PT
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"...being an optimist isn’t about knowing that life used to be worse. It’s about knowing how life can get better." -Bill Gates
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mooch
Trad climber
Tribal Base Camp (Riverkern Annex)
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Feb 13, 2018 - 07:47am PT
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"It's easy to grin / When your ship comes in / And you've got the stock market beat. / But the man worthwhile, / Is the man who can smile, / When his shorts are too tight in the seat"
Judge Smails
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Leggs
Sport climber
Made in California, living in The Old Pueblo
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Feb 13, 2018 - 02:37pm PT
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“When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space.”
~Pema Chödrön ~
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Feb 16, 2018 - 06:57am PT
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^^ That's a good lead in to one of my favorite quotes from one of my favorite authors.
“If you want to really relax sometime, just fall to rock bottom and you'll be a happy man. Most all troubles come from having standards.”
― Thomas Berger, Little Big Man
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Feb 16, 2018 - 01:20pm PT
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"You can't fight in here. This is the war room!"
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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Feb 23, 2018 - 10:04am PT
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"We should change the names of AR-15s to “Marco Rubio” because they are so easy to buy."
Sarah Chadwick, MSD student
#neveragain
...
Follow-up...
"HOW TEENS SPEAK TO AND ABT ADULTS: “We shd change the names of AR-15s to ‘Marco Rubio’ bc they are so easy to buy,” Stoneman Douglas sophomore Sarah Chadwick tweeted." -Laura Ingraham tweet
"I’m a junior." -Sarah Chadwick riposte
lol
I am so impressed by these MSD kids! Getting involved, finding their voice and speaking out, taking charge!
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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"I’ve been lucky enough to follow, learn from, and be led by countless amazing women in my life. Women have the power to rise up in a world tailored against them and change it."
Cameron Kasky
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stunewberry
Trad climber
Spokane, WA
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"I thought it would take longer to get this old."
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i-b-goB
Social climber
Wise Acres
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“Last time I saw a mouth like that, it had a hook in it.”
― Rodney Dangerfield
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Kauait
Big Wall climber
salt lake city
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Don't feed the hippies, their on a strict diet of meth and organic foods.
(Bumper sticker on friends truck in Kauai)
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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Mar 10, 2018 - 07:38am PT
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"Of all the aids which the human mind has yet created to simplify its life—that is, to simplify the work in which thinking consists—none is so momentous and so inseparably bound up with the mind’s most inward nature as the concept of number. Arithmetic, whose sole object is this concept, is already a science of immeasurable breadth, and there can be no doubt that there are absolutely no limits to its further development; and the domain of its application is equally immeasurable, for every thinking person, even if he does not clearly realize it, is a person of numbers, an arithmetician."
Richard Dedekind
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dedekind
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 11, 2018 - 02:40pm PT
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"The Sprinter van spelled the end of the campfire."
Some famous guy whose name I forgot.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Mar 11, 2018 - 02:48pm PT
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Euell Gibbons?
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Mar 20, 2018 - 11:23am PT
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If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
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7SacredPools
Trad climber
Ontario, Canada
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Mar 20, 2018 - 02:46pm PT
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That last quote reminded me of this African proverb:
"If you want to travel fast, go alone. If you want to travel far, go together."
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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Mar 26, 2018 - 07:15am PT
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"If I hear one more person call Ultrarunner a hero I’ll puke. I don’t care how hard you push your body for your own reasons that’s not a hero." -Candice Burt
"Puke away... they can be our running heroes, there’s nothing wrong with that! They, however, are not my life heroes .... different hero categories there, Candice." -Aaron B.
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Norton
climber
The Wastelands
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Mar 26, 2018 - 08:58am PT
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*We should have stayed in the Trees"
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TLP
climber
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Mar 26, 2018 - 09:03am PT
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From a guide book to mountain biking trails:
"After all, being lost is a state of mind rather than an actual physical reality."
You are indeed always right where you are.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Mar 27, 2018 - 12:44pm PT
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“We were not pioneers ourselves, but we journeyed over old trails that were new to us, and with hearts open. Who shall distinguish?”
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Apr 10, 2018 - 12:19pm PT
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“A generation that cannot endure boredom will be a generation of little men… of men in whom every vital impulse slowly withers, as though they were cut flowers in a vase.”
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Don Paul
Gym climber
Denver CO
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Apr 10, 2018 - 12:35pm PT
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"Don't fall, or we both go."
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Apr 10, 2018 - 03:46pm PT
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In case the name Bill Reid doesn’t ring a bell...
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Apr 11, 2018 - 07:55am PT
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Don Paul's quote is quite poignant. As a matter of fact, I've said that myself!
Anyhooo...
If you think you’re enlightened go spend a week with your family. -- Ram Dass
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Apr 11, 2018 - 07:05pm PT
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"Oh Shutup, and go play with yourself!" - Locker
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Apr 16, 2018 - 12:06pm PT
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There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations — one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it — you will regret both.
What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that's just how the world will come to an end: to general applause from wits who believe it's a joke.
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Topic Author's Reply - May 9, 2018 - 12:24pm PT
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"The slum is the measure of civilization."
Jacob Riis
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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"There isn't a woman player in the world I can't give knights-odds to and still beat." -- Robert James Fischer
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L
climber
A place with cats...lots and lots of cats
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May 13, 2018 - 05:30pm PT
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Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
~ Karl von Clausewitz
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RURP_Belay
Big Wall climber
Bitter end of a bad anchor
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May 14, 2018 - 05:07am PT
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"After all, being lost is a state of mind rather than an actual physical reality."
A variation on TLP's quote:
Being bored is a state of mind, not a state of being. Change your mind.
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perswig
climber
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They do not want your life, bwana. They want your shoes.
Truth, often.
Dale
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FRUMY
Trad climber
Bishop,CA
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If there is a 50-50 chance which way something goes, there is a 90% chance of getting it wrong the first time.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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“My mother was born in San Juan. So I’m Puerto Rican, Jewish, colored and married to a white woman. When I move into a neighborhood, people start running four ways at the same time.”
Sammy Davis Jr.
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Larry Nelson
Social climber
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"There are 2 kinds of tragedy in life:
One is not getting what you want.
The other is getting what you want."
Unknown
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perswig
climber
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Aug 15, 2018 - 12:44pm PT
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...for oft it may chance that old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know.
Dale
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Aug 15, 2018 - 12:47pm PT
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”Clean-up on Aisle 3!” - Berta at Piggly Wiggly
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perswig
climber
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Aug 18, 2018 - 06:16am PT
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But it wasn't the bullet that laid him to rest; was the low spark of high-heeled boys
Dale
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Aug 18, 2018 - 08:58am PT
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“Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.” - Sir Thomas More
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Aug 18, 2018 - 09:23am PT
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Democrat hound (Maine): An otherwise intelligent animal who takes up the wrong scent, as when a rabbit hound chases a fox.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Aug 18, 2018 - 10:36am PT
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Decca to The Beatles 1962: "We don’t like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out."
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Larry Nelson
Social climber
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Aug 18, 2018 - 12:19pm PT
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"I was going to open a hairdressing salon. Who knew any of this would last?"
Ringo Starr.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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A long one:
They sat side by side holding their hats, she the sombrero of woven straw, he the dusty black fedora. She was crying. He sighed and seemed himself weary and cast down. He said that while one would like to say that God will punish those who do such things and that people often speak in just this way it was his experience that God could not be spoken for and that men with wicked histories often enjoyed times of comfort and that they died in peace and were buried with honor. He said that it was a mistake to expect too much of justice in this world. He said that the notion that evil is seldom rewarded was greatly overspoken for if there were no advantage to it then men would shun it and how could virtue then be attached to its repudiation? It was the nature of his profession that his experience with death should be greater than for most and he said that while it was true that time heals bereavement it does so only at the cost of the slow extinction of those loved ones from the heart’s memory which is the sole place of their abode then and now. Faces fade, voices dim. Seize them back, whispered the sepulturero. Speak with them. Call their names. Do this and do not let sorrow die for it is the sweetening of every gift.
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Aeriq
Social climber
Location: It's a MisterE
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Sep 30, 2018 - 09:49pm PT
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the wound is the place where the light enters you
--Rumi
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
ne'er–do–well
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Oct 17, 2018 - 10:17pm PT
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Nice one Aeriq.
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skywalker1
Trad climber
co
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Oct 18, 2018 - 12:34am PT
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I'm with George Carlin...
S...
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Happy Cowboy
Social climber
Boz MT
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Oct 18, 2018 - 04:55am PT
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“the door to the invisible must be visible”
Pierre Sogol
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Jon Beck
Trad climber
Oceanside
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Oct 31, 2018 - 09:57am PT
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“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of autumn.”
– John Muir
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ydpl8s
Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
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Oct 31, 2018 - 03:47pm PT
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"We may lose and we may win,
But we will never be here again!" - J. Browne
"I like like your Christ, I just don't like your Christians" - Ghandi
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perswig
climber
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For thousands of years, even before Homer's concave ships set sail for Troy, there were men with wrinkles around their mouths and rainy November hearts, men whose nature leads them sooner or later to look with interest into the black hole of a pistol barrel, men for whom the sea was a solution and who always sensed when it was time to make an exit.
Arturo Perez-Reverte
The Nautical Chart
Dale
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perswig
climber
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Nov 17, 2018 - 01:59am PT
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My mother said
to get things done
you'd better not mess with Major Tom.
Dale
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clinker
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, California
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Nov 17, 2018 - 07:47am PT
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Quoting Geoff Norris yesterday at work, "There is an art to being good." pause "It seems to be lost."
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divad
Trad climber
wmass
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Nov 17, 2018 - 08:31am PT
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"When you ain't got nothing, you got nothing to lose
You're invisible now, you got no secrets to confuse"
BD
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Nov 17, 2018 - 08:43am PT
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if you have nothing nice to say, don't say anything at all
You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you.
True power comes from sitting back & observing everything with logic.
If words control you others can control you with words.
Breath & allow things to pass.
Show strength through inaction, action, interactions
and the ability to find balance in between the three.
"mostly"
Bruce Lee
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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Nov 17, 2018 - 01:18pm PT
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“I'm suspicious of people who don't like dogs, but I trust a dog when it doesn't like a person.”
Bill Murray
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Trump
climber
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Nov 18, 2018 - 07:42am PT
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Two from Homer:
“I’ll teach you to laugh at something that’s funny!” (while strangling Bart)
“Oh, you have so many looks.” (while admiring Spider-pig)
I once had a friend tell me some off-hand comment a common friend had made was “so revealing.” It was cool how he could divine so much meaning from such an innocuous comment.
Me, with the depth and breadth of my understanding, I’m able to gain deep insights from the silliest places. But your quotes are cool too.
Spider-Pig,
Spider-Pig,
Does whatever
A Spider-Pig does.
Can he swing from a web?
No, he can't
He's a pig!
LOOK OUT!
He’s Spider-Pig!
Best to you, pigple!
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Aeriq
Social climber
Location: It's a MisterE
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Nov 18, 2018 - 05:22pm PT
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Women and cats will do as they please and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea
--Robert Heinlein--
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Dec 10, 2018 - 07:11pm PT
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"Those heroes that shed their blood and lost their lives... you are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and the Mehmets to us where they lie side by side here in this country of ours... You the mothers who sent their sons from far away countries wipe away your tears. Your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace. After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well." -- Ataturk
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Lorenzo
Trad climber
Portland Oregon
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Dec 10, 2018 - 07:37pm PT
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Great quote, Gary.
"Its a good day to Die."
Klingon Proverb
Oglala Lakota chief Low Dog., who was a real person.
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Aeriq
Social climber
Location: It's a MisterE
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Dec 10, 2018 - 07:43pm PT
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Not a favorite, but one I blurted out that I haven't heard before.
It was F'ing cold Sunday morning, and the warm-ups were barely tolerable.
Tom looks at me and says the classic: "Sending temps, Bro!"
"Sending me home temps, Bro."
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ShawnInPaso
climber
Paso Robles, CA
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Dec 10, 2018 - 09:28pm PT
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"Chance only favors the mind which is prepared." - Louis Pasteur 1854
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Robert Yoho
Social climber
Los Angeles,ca
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Dec 10, 2018 - 10:49pm PT
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The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend Cicero
One man after burying another has been laid out dead, and another buries him; and all this in a short time. Hippocrates after curing many diseases himself fell sick and died.. and lice killed Socrates... What means all this? ...All human things are smoke, and nothing at all; and it is not for us, but for the gods, to settle whether we play the play out, or only a part of it. Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and tend thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew. ... Do not act as if thou wert going to live 10,000 years. While thou can, while you are able, be good. Aurelius Meditations
Bad luck borne nobly is good luck. Aurelius
Burn the bridge. Nuke the foundation. Back yourself up against a wall. Have an opinion one way or the other, get off the fence and rip it up. Cut yourself off so there is no going back. Once you're committed the truth will come out. You ask about security? What you need is uncertainty. What you need is confusion; something that forces you to reinvent yourself, a whip to drive you harder Twight
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Robert Yoho
Social climber
Los Angeles,ca
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Dec 10, 2018 - 10:52pm PT
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Alvarez feeding the rat
The truth is I like an unforgiving climate where if you make mistakes you suffer for it. thats what turns me on.... but every year you need to flush out your system and do a bit of suffering. it does you a power of good. i think its because there is always a question mark about how you woud perform. you have an idea of yourself and... if you just toodle along you can think youre a pretty slick bloke until things go wrong... thats why I like feeding the rat. its a sort of annual check up...the rat is you really. Its the other you and its being fed by the you that you think you are. and they are often very different people. but when they come close to each other, thats smashing, that is. then the rats had a good meal and you come away feeling terrific. its a fairly rare thing but you have to keep feeding the brute just for your own peace of mind. and even if you blow it at least there wouldnt be that great unknown. but to snuff it without knowing who you are and what you are would be a shame.
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Robert Yoho
Social climber
Los Angeles,ca
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Dec 10, 2018 - 10:54pm PT
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until one is committed there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back. Always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of inanition (and action) there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely comitts oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would otherwise have never occurred. A whole stream of events issue from the decision raising in one's favor all manner of unforseen incidents and meetings which no man could have dremt would have come his way. WN Murray Scottish Himilayan expedition 1951
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Dec 16, 2018 - 06:46am PT
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“First they came for the journalists,” said the young man’s sign. “We don’t know what happened after that.”
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Aeriq
Sport climber
100-year Visitor
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"For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love"
--Carl Sagan
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Jan 19, 2019 - 04:27pm PT
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"You've got to give squares to get squares." -- Bobby Fischer
Ain't it the truth!
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capseeboy
Social climber
portland, oregon
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Jan 19, 2019 - 05:59pm PT
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Beauty is wasted on youth, wisdom on the old--Gnomie
You don't know an insult until you have a son-in-law--Gnomie
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divad
Trad climber
wmass
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Jan 23, 2019 - 10:09am PT
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The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it,
ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
- Winston Churchill
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norm larson
climber
wilson, wyoming
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Jan 23, 2019 - 03:38pm PT
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Those that mind don't matter.
Those that matter don't mind.
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Aeriq
Sport climber
100-year Visitor
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Feb 12, 2019 - 11:37pm PT
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Bump for a great thread!
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Nic
Trad climber
Cornwall
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Feb 15, 2019 - 04:14am PT
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Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom’s. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are greater than your own.” Nelson Algren, A Walk on the Wild Side (1956).
Plus for good measure: "Never pat a burning dog" Ronnie Scott
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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Feb 24, 2019 - 11:58am PT
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"Beware the quiet man. For while others speak, he watches. And while others act, he plans. And when they finally rest... he strikes." -Anonymous
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Feb 24, 2019 - 12:01pm PT
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“What we have here is a failure to communicate “ - Cool Hand Luke
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perswig
climber
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Feb 24, 2019 - 02:00pm PT
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"If the Truth is already clear, what is the use of meditation?
And if the Truth is hidden, it is already clear..." ... Saraha
Dale
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Feb 24, 2019 - 02:55pm PT
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"Some men you just can't reach" -- The Captain
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Delhi Dog
climber
Good Question...
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Feb 25, 2019 - 02:07am PT
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“Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”
-Malcolm Forbes
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apogee
climber
Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
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"I don’t remember where I first heard this simple description of one dramatic contrast between the genders, but it is strikingly accurate: At core, men are afraid women will laugh at them, while at core, women are afraid men will kill them."
Likely source: Margaret Atwood
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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“There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer.
There never has been an answer. That's the answer.”
Gertrude Stein
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Mar 17, 2019 - 08:54pm PT
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"the last time the president suffered a rebuke like this, the electoral college voted him into office"
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Flip Flop
climber
Earth Planet, Universe
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Mar 17, 2019 - 09:23pm PT
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"If this isn't nice, I don't know what is." -Kurt Vonnegut
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Mar 18, 2019 - 09:08am PT
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"Frågan är fri, så får svaret klinga hur det vil"
My mother
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Mar 18, 2019 - 09:29am PT
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So yer mum was friends with Gertrude Stein?
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Mar 18, 2019 - 10:16am PT
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Yes, at least intellectually in this connection...
And I think my mother would have agreed with Gertrude about Hemingway, but never said a word... "Ikke prat stygt om folk"
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perswig
climber
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Mar 23, 2019 - 05:15pm PT
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Without grace, everyone is running from something.
Yep.
Dale
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Norton
climber
The Wastelands
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Mar 23, 2019 - 05:26pm PT
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"We should have stayed in the trees"
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EdwardT
Trad climber
Retired
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Mar 24, 2019 - 09:14am PT
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Let's have a bachelor party with chicks and guns and fire trucks and hookers and drugs and booze!
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perswig
climber
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Mar 29, 2019 - 03:42am PT
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'I slept, and dreamed that life was beauty;
I woke, and found that life was duty...' - LMA
Dale
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d-know
Trad climber
electric lady land
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Mar 29, 2019 - 08:58am PT
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Never let it be said that I
didn't do the least that
I could do.
Hawkeye(Allen Alda) M.A.S.H.
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hamie
Social climber
Thekoots
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Mar 29, 2019 - 06:52pm PT
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"For the last time, Mariam did as she was told."
A Thousand Splendid Suns.
K. Hosseini.
(She looked down at the ground, as the Taliban executed her.)
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perswig
climber
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Our God and Souldiers we alike adore,
Ev’n at the Brink of danger; not before:
After deliverance, both alike required;
Our God’s forgotten, and our Souldiers slighted. - F. Quarles
JFK included a modern wording in his speech to Old Ironsides during the Cuban missile crisis stand-to.
Dale
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 7, 2019 - 09:10pm PT
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"recon it's just a case of too soon old and too late smart"
Charleston Heston in Will Penny.
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Flip Flop
climber
Earth Planet, Universe
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Fukin-A Man! That jump was awesome! - Squirrel Murphy
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Aeriq
Sport climber
100-year Visitor
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The unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwelling on himself and start paying attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence. When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. You get to take yourself oh so very seriously.
― Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
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wilbeer
Mountain climber
Terence Wilson greeneck alleghenys,ny,
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Can’t understand normal thinking.
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Larry Nelson
Social climber
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“Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.”
Elizabeth Taylor
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FRUMY
Trad climber
Bishop,CA
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"I never ran, I did pass many men that were running."
Dec. 7 1941
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EdwardT
Trad climber
Retired
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Most of us are not especially appealing in our best moments.
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Fossil climber
Trad climber
Atlin, B. C.
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Evolution has equipped man with a convenient tiller, with which woman navigates him through his life.
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eeyonkee
Trad climber
Golden, CO
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Saw this post, figured I could come up with something clever but will defer to Fossil climber.
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7SacredPools
Trad climber
Ontario, Canada
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Apr 10, 2019 - 09:48pm PT
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"It is not what we have lost that matters most, but what we choose to do with what we have left."
Stanley Stein: Leprosy patient
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FRUMY
Trad climber
Bishop,CA
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Apr 11, 2019 - 10:40am PT
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"It's a good day to die"
Was a Geronimo quote.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Apr 11, 2019 - 11:16am PT
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"If your happiness depends on what somebody else does,
I guess you do have a problem."
--Richard Bach
Paolo Coelho sez?
"You have to own your mistakes.
Otherwise, your mistakes own you."
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FRUMY
Trad climber
Bishop,CA
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Apr 16, 2019 - 03:14pm PT
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It is what it is - because it was what it was!
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d-know
Trad climber
electric lady land
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Apr 16, 2019 - 03:39pm PT
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Here's a picture of when
I was younger.
THAT'S EVERY PICTURE!
Carlin.
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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May 26, 2019 - 05:51pm PT
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"Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.!!"
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Is that your own, Fossil Climber? If so, pretty damn good!!
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perswig
climber
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May 29, 2019 - 01:31pm PT
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...it is good medicine to one's self-esteem to meet with serious setbacks at timely intervals.
Lt-Gen A.N. Anderson, British 1st Army (Algiers, WW2)
Dale
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Eric Beck
Sport climber
Bishop, California
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May 29, 2019 - 02:27pm PT
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"Much of what passes for courage is just lack of imagination." -- Tom Kimbrough, a regular contributor here.
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Lorenzo
Trad climber
Portland Oregon
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May 29, 2019 - 04:57pm PT
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Is that your own, Fossil Climber? If so, pretty damn good!!
Steve Jobs.
And it’s still pretty damn good.
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