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I found fear stimulating. Particularly after you've done something that you'd been frightened of at the time, but you carried through and did the job.

Edmund Hillary

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Edmund Hillary
Age: 88 †
Born: 1919
Born: July 20
Died: 2008
Died: January 11
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Tāmaki Makaurau
Sir Edmund Percival Hillary
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