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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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