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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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