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I thought you'd rather have a live donkey than a dead lion.

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Ernest Shackleton
Age: 47 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 15
Died: 1922
Died: January 5
Explorer
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Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton
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Donkey
Lion
Lions
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Now my eyes are turned from the South to the North, and I want to lead one more Expedition. This will be the last... to the North Pole.
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(Was he talking about a polar expedition, or marriage?) -Jorge Men Wanted: For hazardous journey. Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in case of success.
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I called to the other men that the sky was clearing, and then a moment later I realized that what I had seen was not a rift in the clouds but the white crest of an enormous wave.
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From the sentimental point of view, it is the last great Polar journey that can be made.
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Men Wanted for Dangerous Expedition: Low Wages for Long Hours of Arduous Labour under Brutal Conditions Months of Continual Darkness and Extreme Cold Great Risk to Life and Limb from Disease, Accidents and Other Hazards Small Chance of Fame in Case of Success.
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I chose life over death for myself and my friends... I believe it is in our nature to explore, to reach out into the unknown. The only true failure would be not to explore at all.
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Optimism is the true moral courage
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After the conquest of the South Pole by Amundsen who, by a narrow margin of days only, was in advance of the British Expedition under Scott, there remained but one great main object of Antarctic journeying - the crossing of the South Polar continent from sea to sea
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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.
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If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.
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By endurance we conquer.
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When things are easy, I hate it.
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A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.
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The noise resembles the roar of heavy, distant surf. Standing on the stirring ice one can imagine it is disturbed by the breathing and tossing of a mighty giant below.
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If you're a leader, a fellow that other fellows look to, you've got to keep going.
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I have often marveled at the thin line which separates success from failure.
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Loneliness is the penalty of leadership, but the man who has to make the decisions is assisted greatly if he feels that there is no uncertainty in the minds of those who follow him, and that his orders will be carried out confidently and in the expectation of success.
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Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.
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