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Mountaineer Inspirational Quotes (1400)

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The choreographed standing and clapping of one side of the room - while the other side sits - is unbecoming of a serious institution and the message that it sends is that even on a night when the president is addressing the entire nation, we in Congress cannot sit as one, but must be divided as two.
Mark Udall
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Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
Petrarch
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Climbers seem to forget that we said in our introduction that there were simply '50 classic routes', not 'the 50 classics'. We chose 50 from a list of about 120. Only a torturer will ever pry loose from our lips the names of those other 70 classics.
Steve Roper
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I like to walk, touch living Mother Earth—bare feet best, and thrill every step. Used to envy happy reptiles that had advantage of so much body in contact with earth, bosom to bosom. [We] live with our heels as well as head and most of our pleasure comes in that way.
John Muir
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Quantum theory provides us with a striking illustration of the fact that we can fully understand a connection though we can only speak of it in images and parables.
Werner Heisenberg
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Looking at something changes it.
Werner Heisenberg
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Haji Ali taught me the most important lesson I've ever learned in my life...We Americans think you have to accomplish everything quickly. We're the country of thirty-minute power lunches and two-minute football drills. Haji Ali taught me to share three cups of tea, to slow down and make building relationships as important as building projects.
Greg Mortenson
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The balance between freedom and security is a delicate one.
Mark Udall
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I haven't inherited the earth from my parents, I am borrowing it from my children.
Mark Udall
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Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.
Tamae Watanabe
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I was never comfortable with the risk of climbing in the Himalayas, or the amount of time in idleness that is involved in the Everest expedition.
Steve Fossett
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Only spread a fern-frond over a man's head and worldly cares are cast out, and freedom and beauty and peace come in.
John Muir
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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.
John Muir
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Indeed, it has affirmed my belief that our purpose as spiritual beings is to follow our bliss, seek our passions, and live our lives as inspirations to each other.
Aron Ralston
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I've had two fatwas issued against me by despot mullahs opposed to education - and important to know that the great majority of Imams and Islamic religious leaders support education for all children.
Greg Mortenson
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We all flow from one fountain- Soul. All are expressions of one love.
John Muir
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The moon is looking down into the canyon, and how marvelously the great rocks kindle to her light! Every dome, and brow, and swelling boss touched by her white rays, glows as if lighted with snow.
John Muir
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Climbing is what I do.
Anatoli Boukreev
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I didn’t go up there to die. I went up there to live.
Reinhold Messner
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A man who is doing his True Will has the inertia of the Universe to assist him.
Aleister Crowley
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To me, a wilderness is where the flow of wildness is essentially uninterrupted by technology without wilderness the world is a cage.
David R. Brower
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I don't think we have very good records about what they were thinking except, as I pointed out earlier today, that they did invent our political system.
David R. Brower
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I know that our bodies were made to thrive only in pure air, and the scenes in which pure air is found.
John Muir
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I've fallen down crevasses, been bitten by snakes, been knocked unconscious, had various limbs broken and once, a heavy camera came plunging down which very nearly decapitated me.
Bear Grylls
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