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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.
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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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