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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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