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hooblie
climber
from where the anecdotes roam
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jan 9, 2011 - 03:44pm PT
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please, share your thoughts
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Captain...or Skully
climber
leading the away team, but not in a red shirt!
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Nice, Randisi. I dunno about 'least'...less, maybe?
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R.B.
Big Wall climber
Land of the Lahar
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Being able to say an entire story with one sentence:
This fuggin fugger is fuggin fugged!
A quote from a british climber pointing to his broken ice axe -
from a Chapter in Greg Child's book "Postcards from the Ledge" re: an illustration as to how fast the language skills of civility erodes as one sits in cold base camps in the himalaya.
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jogill
climber
Colorado
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Bouldering is instant suffering - Yvon Chouinard ca1958
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Fermat's principle
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hooblie
climber
from where the anecdotes roam
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 9, 2011 - 05:02pm PT
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dingus, i can relate. i went from two years as a derrick hand on an oil rig to being the only male in a studio
with seven interior designers surrounded by their clients. that was a quick study in colloquial discretion.
randisi, may i quote you? ... "!!!!" ;)
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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The elegance of Lesser:
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hooblie
climber
from where the anecdotes roam
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 9, 2011 - 05:14pm PT
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^^^ cheap toupee falls short of minimum standard
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scott baxter
Gym climber
sedona, arizona
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One
already
one
too many.
Cid Corman
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JOEY.F
Social climber
sebastopol
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The Birds has no music. Works.
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Decko
Trad climber
Colorado
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"Never write anything you'll only regret it".....
Don Whillans
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Charlie D.
Trad climber
Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
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"Less is More"
Mies Van Der Rohe (1886-1969), German born American architect
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Decko
Trad climber
Colorado
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"Life is just a break from death"
Iceland 101.........
Movie
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jogill
climber
Colorado
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A mathematician is a machine for converting caffeine into theorems
Paul Erdos - some time ago
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scott baxter
Gym climber
sedona, arizona
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Jan 11, 2011 - 09:35pm PT
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ONTOLOGY SHORT COURSE
Awesome
Awe some
A we
So me.
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MisterE
Social climber
Bouncy Tiggerville
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Jan 11, 2011 - 10:49pm PT
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Wisdom from the Tao Te Ching:
“If you want to become full, let yourself be empty.”
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Dick Erb
climber
June Lake, CA
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Jan 11, 2011 - 11:17pm PT
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Hooblie, the title of your thread is one of the best things I have read here. Also recognized I see by Mr. E
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Ihateplastic
Trad climber
It ain't El Cap, Oregon
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Jan 11, 2011 - 11:50pm PT
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The pen is mightier than the sword.
-Edward George Bulwer Lytton
The penis, mightier than the sword.
-Someone else
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MH2
climber
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Jan 12, 2011 - 12:07am PT
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Least would seem to me to be nothing.
Nothingness would seem to have no qualities whatsoever, elegance included.
But as you got closer and closer to nothing there would be less to talk about and fewer arguments against elegance, and fewer people to buzz, buzz, I wonder why they duzz? So if you got lucky, elegance could be the last thing left on the road to nothing, which would make it anything but least, since it would be the only thing, but it would be elegant.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Jan 12, 2011 - 12:07am PT
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Turdoly
Social climber
Boulder, CO
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Jan 12, 2011 - 12:14am PT
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There's nothing like the pattern of nothing.
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WBraun
climber
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Jan 12, 2011 - 12:15am PT
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But even "Nothing" has an individual personality as shown in Ed's post above.
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Jay Wood
Trad climber
Fairfax, CA
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Jan 12, 2011 - 01:36am PT
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To win the race, you must first get half way to the finish. This takes time.
Then you must advance half the remaining distance. This takes more time.
To cover half the distance now remaining takes time as well.
And so you will never arrive at the goal.
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marv
Mountain climber
Bay Area
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Jan 12, 2011 - 02:19am PT
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what Saint-Ex said (above).
and what Erdos said too.
a little bit of Steve House for good measure: "The simpler we make things, the richer the experience becomes."
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Jan 12, 2011 - 02:25am PT
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"At least I had on clean underwear."
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Ihateplastic
Trad climber
It ain't El Cap, Oregon
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Jan 12, 2011 - 11:16am PT
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From the new movie, The King's Speech...
NOTE: Lionel Louge is Geoffrey Rush and King George VI is Colin Firth. If you have their voices in your head the lines ring sweet.
Lionel Logue: [as George is lighting up a cigarette] Don't do that in here.
King George VI: Why not?
Lionel Logue: Sucking smoke into your lungs will kill you.
King George VI: My physicians tell me it helps to relax the throat.
Lionel Logue: They're idiots.
King George VI: They've been knighted.
Lionel Logue: Makes it official then.
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Norwegian
Trad climber
Placerville, California
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Jan 12, 2011 - 11:43am PT
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once i am finished with everything, nothing sums me up.
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MisterE
Social climber
Bouncy Tiggerville
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Jan 12, 2011 - 11:53am PT
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d-know
Trad climber
electric lady land
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Jan 12, 2011 - 11:56am PT
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none of us
are secure
until the
least of
us are.
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divad
Trad climber
wmass
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Jan 12, 2011 - 11:56am PT
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one who says least knows most...
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Jan 13, 2011 - 08:06pm PT
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"Maier's goal as a designer is to strip away all unenecessary parts until a dress or a shirt or a bag or a watch has been reduced to its functional essence - until it achieves what he calls 'a certain nothingness'".
 John Colapinto, Profiles, JUST HAVE LESS, Bottega Veneta's Tomas Maier, The NEW YORKER, Jan. 3, 2011
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Jan 13, 2011 - 08:22pm PT
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Wittgenstein- "Of that of which we cannot speak, we must pass over in silence."
Still in Patagonia.
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scott baxter
Gym climber
sedona, arizona
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Jan 19, 2011 - 01:13am PT
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Legacy II
Grandfather never went to school
spoke only a few words of English,
a quiet man; when he talked
talked about simple things
planting corn or about the weather
sometimes about herding sheep as a child.
One day pointed to the four directions
taught me their names
El Norte
Poniente Oriente
El Sur
He spoke their names as if they were
one of only a handful of things
a man needed to know
Now I look back
only two generations removed
realize I am nothing but a poor fool
who went to college
trying to find my way back
to the center of the world
where Grandfather stood
that day
Leroy V. Quintana
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scuffy b
climber
Three feet higher
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Jan 19, 2011 - 01:23pm PT
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Function is Beauty
Dr. Ferdinand Porsche
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jstan
climber
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Jan 19, 2011 - 02:03pm PT
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Lois?
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PhotogEC
climber
In front of my computer
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Jan 19, 2011 - 02:56pm PT
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
- E. F. Schumacher
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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BooDawg
Social climber
Polynesian Paradise
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Jan 19, 2011 - 03:23pm PT
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Referring to the milkshakes that used to be served at the OLD drugstore in Independence, CA during the late 50's-early 60's:
"A little is good; more is better; and TOO MUCH IS JUST RIGHT!!!
-Lincoln Axe, mountaineer
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MikeL
Social climber
Southern Arizona
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Jan 15, 2019 - 08:42pm PT
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Why?
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jan 15, 2019 - 10:31pm PT
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Finally, a thread with succinct posts, mostly.
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i'm gumby dammit
Sport climber
da ow
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Jan 16, 2019 - 12:09am PT
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Never let it be said that I didn't always do the least I could do.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 16, 2019 - 12:28am PT
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"Do you want to place a two dollar bet?" said the man in the window.
"Less," said the bettor.
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Mark Force
Trad climber
Ashland, Oregon
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Jan 16, 2019 - 06:16am PT
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“It is vain to do with more what one can do with less.”
~ William of Occam
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Dr Lefttoe
Gym climber
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Jan 16, 2019 - 07:43am PT
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"Be least..." -melania trump
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Jan 16, 2019 - 08:12am PT
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hey there say...
this is very interesting...
the elegance of least, you 'say':
well, the elegance of least, (to me) ...
is the grace and self-assurance, in yourself, that you
do not have to 'be' any more than who-you-are...
never more than someone or anyone else...
never more than who you are inside...
knowing the humbleness of the 'least' that we are made-up of...
frees us to be of a simple honest elegance--
an enhancement, you could say:
which naturally of its own, is sparked-within,
which causes us to be the best that we can be...
side note:
and, not the least of which--
does not make us better than anyone else...
although, to be elegantly-expressed, one can not just
USE the least amount of words... ;)
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Jan 17, 2019 - 08:38am PT
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Waste not wonton...
Benjamin Franklin on dining out cheaply.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jan 17, 2019 - 08:40am PT
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Nothing least about a Least Tern mum’s love...
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