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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.
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"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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