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Gunkie
Trad climber
Valles Marineris
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Oct 25, 2017 - 06:34am PT
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May have been posted previously, but one of my favorite lines/quotes from a movie, climbing related or not...
Anderl Meier: You're very good. I have really enjoyed climbing with you.
Dr. Jonathan Hemlock: We'll make it.
Anderl Meier: I don't think so. But we shall continue with style.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Oct 27, 2017 - 09:12am PT
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"It’s all about the intensity. Birdwatching is also intense,
if a little less physical and dangerous."
-Reilly Moss, daredevil extraordinaire
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 28, 2017 - 06:04am PT
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Don't know where/who its from, but pretty good...
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Climbers can understand this, no?
"Ask not ('tis forbidden knowledge), what our destined term of years,
Mine and yours; nor scan the tables of your Babylonish seers.
Better far to bear the future, my Leuconoe, like the past,
Whether Jove has many winters yet to give, or this our last;
This, that makes the Tyrrhene billows spend their strength against the shore.
Strain your wine and prove your wisdom; life is short; should hope be more?
In the moment of our talking, envious time has ebb'd away.
Seize the present; trust tomorrow e'en as little as you may." -- Horace
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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"My only unattractive quality is my bad judgement in free-time activities."
--Hank Caylor
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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"As long as I live under the capitalistic system, I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people. But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp.
This, sir, is my resignation." -- William Faulkner resigning from his job as postmaster at Ole Miss.
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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Nov 26, 2017 - 06:28pm PT
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"If this is who we are or who we are becoming, I have wasted 40 years of my life. Until now it was not possible for me to conceive of an American President capable of such an outrageous assault on truth, a free press or the first amendment."
Michael Hayden,
Four-star general
Director of the National Security Agency
Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence
Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
In response to...
"@FoxNews is MUCH more important in the United States than CNN, but outside of the U.S., CNN International is still a major source of (Fake) news, and they represent our Nation to the WORLD very poorly. The outside world does not see the truth from them!" Trump tweet 25 nov 2017
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Nov 26, 2017 - 06:41pm PT
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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Nov 26, 2017 - 07:00pm PT
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“One of the most powerful forces in history is human stupidity."
Yuval Harari
Sapiens
Homo Deus
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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Nov 27, 2017 - 09:17am PT
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"All I want for Christmas is for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to invite the Obamas to the royal wedding and not the trumps." -Imani
lol
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 1, 2017 - 08:28am PT
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Dec 19, 2017 - 10:24pm PT
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The great thing about ST is that the collective memory is better than any individual's.
--Jan
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Dr Lefttoe
Gym climber
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Dec 19, 2017 - 10:36pm PT
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No man should be so poor that he need sit on a pumpkin. -HDT
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divad
Trad climber
wmass
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Dec 20, 2017 - 05:09am PT
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"If we can't sell this to the American people, we're in the wrong business."
Mitch McConnell
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Dec 20, 2017 - 05:40am PT
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After the 1865 accident on the Matterhorn,
Queen Victoria considered banning British subjects from participating in mountain climbing,
To wit, Edward Whymper penned the following:
"Climb if you will but remember that courage and strength are naught without prudence,
and that a momentary negligence may destroy the happiness of a lifetime.
Do nothing in haste,
look well to each step,
and from the beginning think what might be the end."
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 20, 2018 - 06:35am PT
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A few hours mountain climbing turns a rogue and a saint into two roughly equal creatures. Weariness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity—and liberty is finally added by sleep. —Nietzsche
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TWP
Trad climber
Mancos, CO & Bend, OR
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Feb 11, 2018 - 10:47am PT
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Great Source of Quotes:
The Analects of Confucius
http://www.acmuller.net/con-dao/analects.html
For example:
"[1:16] The Master said: I am not bothered by the fact that I am unknown. I am bothered when I do not know others.”
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