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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Topic Author's Original Post - Oct 21, 2009 - 11:48pm PT
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I often come across quotes that really strike me - and I like to share them.
So here's one I came across today
"Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth". Ludwig Borne
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cragnshag
Social climber
san joser
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Oct 21, 2009 - 11:57pm PT
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"I may live poorly, but at least I don't have to work to do it."
-unemployed guy in the movie Slacker
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hooblie
climber
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Oct 22, 2009 - 12:19am PT
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^^^^on a similar note, i have lived in san francisco, anchorage, and on maui, three places that are known to be expensive.
i've been asked how did i afford the cost of living? my pat answer; "hey, the cost of doing without is the same wherever you go"
seen on the back of a hippie'ed up school bus..."follow me to your place"
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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Oct 22, 2009 - 12:30am PT
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this one struck me recently...
...emotions whipsawed, feeling like approaching a harlot,
lust and angst drawing you along... -Tom Higgins
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Srbphoto
Trad climber
Kennewick wa
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Oct 22, 2009 - 12:32am PT
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"It is curious--curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare." Mark Twain
"It's hard to be subtle with a chainsaw." photography student to his teacher.
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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Oct 22, 2009 - 12:37am PT
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Speaking of Mark Twain,
"A cynic is someone who sees things the way they really are."
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 22, 2009 - 12:39am PT
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two cheers for Twain; those are both keepers.
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Barbarian
Trad climber
slowly dying in the OC
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Oct 22, 2009 - 01:27am PT
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"Trust luck, borrow trouble, and never ask the price!'
Ian Skies Walker
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nature
climber
Tucson, AZ
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Oct 22, 2009 - 01:54am PT
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around '91 we were getting our asses handed to us on the Sherman Glacier route on Rainer. Stuck in a tent for two days in a horrendous storm.
Two dudes were stuck on the summit in the same storm. The weather cleared briefly and dudes were able to descend. My buddy ran into them in base camp ( I was still ascending with another team).
One dude offered to Dave "You only live once and if you die young, well, that sucks".
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Ray Olson
Trad climber
Imperial Beach, California
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Oct 22, 2009 - 03:31am PT
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"The creator of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandelous:
novelty disturbs and repels"
Simone de Beauvoir
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Reilly
Mountain climber
Monrovia, CA
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Oct 22, 2009 - 04:17am PT
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"I never could explain why
I love anybody or anything"
Walt Whitman
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Banquo
Trad climber
Morgan Hill, CA
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Oct 22, 2009 - 10:23am PT
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"If climbers didn't die, climbing would."
John Barry
"An adventure is interesting enough in retrospect, especially to the person that didn't have it; at the time it happens it usually constitutes an exceedingly disagreeable experience."
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
"Three constitutes a large expedition, a party of one may be considered a small expedition."
Dr. Humphreys
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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Oct 22, 2009 - 10:39am PT
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"I used to care but, things have changed"
Bob Dylan
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Oct 22, 2009 - 10:57am PT
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(When I asked him to be careful downclimbing unanchored)
"I've lived a long and happy life."
Mike Baca, Oct. 17, 2009
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ydpl8s
Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
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Oct 22, 2009 - 10:57am PT
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"Now wouldn't it be a real drag if we were all the same!" - Savoy Brown
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JNB
Big Wall climber
Northridge
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Oct 22, 2009 - 11:18am PT
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"Its a good day to Die."
Klingon Proverb
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nutstory
climber
Ajaccio, Corsica, France.
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Oct 22, 2009 - 11:20am PT
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"Qui vit sans folie n’est pas aussi sage qu’il croit."
"He who lives without madness is not as wise as he believes."
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hooblie
climber
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Oct 22, 2009 - 11:29am PT
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"I used to care but, things have changed"
Bob Dylan ^^^^thankyou norton, i'll take it, he can spare it
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ydpl8s
Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
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Oct 22, 2009 - 11:57am PT
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"It is a good day to die"
I first heard that quote in the movie Little Big Man with Dustin Hoffman. The line is said several times by the Chief Dan George character Old Lodge Skins. He had tons of great lines in that movie "That Buffalo Wallow woman, she sleeps with horses"
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Karen
Trad climber
So Cal urban sprawl Hell
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Oct 22, 2009 - 01:15pm PT
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"The unexamined life is not worth living" Socrates
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brotherbbock
Trad climber
Alta Loma, CA
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Oct 22, 2009 - 01:50pm PT
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"The world is like a book, and those that never leave home read but one page."
-St. Augustine
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BrianH
Trad climber
santa fe
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Oct 22, 2009 - 01:57pm PT
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"Everyone seems normal, until you get to know them."
Some damm bumper sticker on a fridge somewhere.
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BillO
Boulder climber
Whittier, CA
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Oct 22, 2009 - 04:07pm PT
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“The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.” -- Carlos Castaneda
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Dolomite
climber
Anchorage
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Oct 22, 2009 - 04:20pm PT
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"Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises?"--Thoreau
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divad
Trad climber
wmass
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Oct 22, 2009 - 04:25pm PT
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f*ck you russ, i'm sick of your self-righteous sh*t, this is entertaining
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Oct 22, 2009 - 05:57pm PT
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"This ain't T'juana." Dick Cilley
"When you're the world's most famous toproper, you take your life in your hands every day." ibid
"buy the gas and I'll drive you there." (sung to the tune of ,"Somewhere, a place for us." ibid
"you're so full of oit your eyes are brown." My dad, to me when i was about 14.
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kev
climber
A pile of dirt.
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Oct 22, 2009 - 06:04pm PT
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"It only takes a single as#@&%e to stink up a whole room" kev
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Danielle Winters
Trad climber
Alaska
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Oct 22, 2009 - 06:10pm PT
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As we grow old we become smaller and smaller, and our power seeps back in to the earth whence it arose until there is nothing left, and then the wind blows us away"
Old Apache indian
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Oct 22, 2009 - 06:12pm PT
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Are you talking about Pate's woody?
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Ghoulwe
Trad climber
Spokane, WA
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Oct 22, 2009 - 06:17pm PT
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A few of my favorites:
You only live once, but if you work it right, once is enough. - Joe E. Lewis
We're hopelessly lost but we're making good time. - Yogi Berra
You have two choices, start living or start dying. – Clint Eastwood (Outlaw Josey Wales)
Kinky is using a feather. Perverted is using the whole chicken…
 seen on a bumper sticker
Eric
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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Oct 22, 2009 - 06:19pm PT
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"It's gettin' re-goddamned-diculous." - John Wayne
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altieboo
Boulder climber
Livermore, Ca
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Oct 22, 2009 - 06:27pm PT
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Haven't actually read or heard this from the "author" but it has been passed down to me.
"Sport climbing is a lot like sport f*#king. It's a lot of fun and requires no commitment." -Jim Bridwell
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JNB
Big Wall climber
Northridge
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Oct 22, 2009 - 06:42pm PT
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"God Protects the Innocent, and Fortune favors the Bold"
Charles Cole
My mantra as I solo big wall.
Juan
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Ed Bannister
Mountain climber
Riverside, CA
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Oct 22, 2009 - 06:49pm PT
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from Film:
"Marvelous" Clint Eastwood, Dirty Harry
"Morons, I've got morons on my team." Struther Martin, Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid
from Climbers?
"Whaddayawant" Mike Hoover
"Come ski" Bev Johnson
"well you know, I don't climb any more" Tony Yaniro
"does it hurt?" Brett Maurer
"this guy is an idiot" Norman Kingsley
"and then, right below the summit, he switched cracks!" Tom Frost
"5.9" Mike Waugh
"we were climbing, it felt good, I didn't need any pro" Phil Warrender
"I've got a chair and two bottles of water under that rock." Randy Leavitt
"Passion is a two edged sword" David Williams (Willie)
"I eat a lot of Bananas and Chicken" Rich Grigsby
"we're gunna die" Jeff Bosson
"I know what I want when I see it" Penny Ellis
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Redwreck
Social climber
Echo Parque, Los Angeles, CA
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Oct 22, 2009 - 06:50pm PT
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Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the living entrails of the last priest.
-Denis Diderot
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Rusty Punch
climber
Cloverland, CA
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Oct 22, 2009 - 07:33pm PT
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"I wish you would take up a pasttime that dosn't require a helmet" - Clover's Mom
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Oct 22, 2009 - 08:02pm PT
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"I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it." -- Grouch Marx
" " -- Harpo Marx
"Mustard's no good without roast beef." -- Chico Marx
Zeppo has no quotes.
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labrat
Trad climber
Nevada City, CA
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Oct 22, 2009 - 09:20pm PT
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If we could just find out who's in charge, we could kill him. George Carlin
Religion is just mind control. GC
Sometimes fast and light turns out to be frozen and f**ked. ??
Sometimes fear is the appropriate response. 9
The best climber is the one having the most fun. Alex Lowe
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Banquo
Trad climber
Morgan Hill, CA
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Oct 22, 2009 - 10:14pm PT
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"They that can give up essential
liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Benjamin Franklin
"If you want total security,
go to prison. There you're fed, clothed,
given medical care and so on.
The only thing lacking is freedom."
Dwight Eisenhower
"A little learning is a dangerous thing"
Alexander Pope.
"Any fool can spend money."
George A.
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TYeary
Social climber
State of decay
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Oct 22, 2009 - 10:33pm PT
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"Aye, you may be going up mate, but a lot higher than you think".
Whillians, while retreating, to two Japanese climbers continuing up into the storm, Eiger North Face route.
Tony
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dogtown
Trad climber
JackAssVille, Wyoming
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Oct 22, 2009 - 10:55pm PT
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Your Not axially 007. Well your not Thomas Jefferson. Ether ?
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dogtown
Trad climber
JackAssVille, Wyoming
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Oct 22, 2009 - 11:52pm PT
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Name that tune?
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Decko
Trad climber
Colorado
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Oct 22, 2009 - 11:58pm PT
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"I came to get high and burn sh#t down"
Sticker on the wall at the Southern Sun in Boulder......
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couchmaster
climber
pdx
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Oct 23, 2009 - 12:04am PT
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...my small benediction: let us be most humbled, thankful and awestruck at the prize of consciousness, the sunny days on what we call rock and mountains with others we call friends, the noble globe itself only a dot in the vast swirl of matter and time, in the great physics of it all Frank pondered, the same which pounds and baffles each of us under a clear night sky. And there, looking up, perhaps I am not alone making a quiet vow to hold more tightly to good friendship and love before sleeping Frank’s sleep.
Tom Higgins"
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Captain...or Skully
Social climber
Idaho, also. Sorta, kinda mostly, Yeah.
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Oct 23, 2009 - 12:12am PT
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"Consumate "V's"....Consumate!
Jeez, guy wouldn't know Majesty if it came up & bit him"......StrongBad
He's got some skills of an artist.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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Oct 23, 2009 - 01:27am PT
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nice Skully!
"Here I go again with the email. Hope that its from a female..."
-Strongbad
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Oct 23, 2009 - 01:38am PT
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"Don't worry Hinterstoisser, we can get back!"
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R.B.
Trad climber
AZ-WA
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Oct 23, 2009 - 01:54am PT
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In regards to an interview conducted in 1985 in Camp 4 of Yosemite Valley ... a writer for playboy magazine, Craig Vetter who was climbing with Galen Rowell wanted to hear 'my' story about how I fractured my heal taking a 25' whipper on the Catchy Corner, 5.11a of the Cookie Cliff of Yosemite, my (favorite) quote of which is published in Playboy Magazine, around October '86, in an article titled "Climbers" an excerpt is as follows (page 184, middle top paragraph):
At a camfire the night before, a climber, from Flagstaff had talked to me about just that thing (about falling). His name was RB and he'd been climbing for 17 years, since he was four. Just the year before, he'd taken a fall that had flipped him over backward and smashed his heel bone into five pieces. He said he could have saved the plunge if he'd just grabbed the rope, which he didn't, because HIS CLIMBER'S CODE TOLD HIM NOT TO. He said it wasn't a total loss, though. It had left an unnaturally large bump on his heel , which made his (three-striper feerays) fit perfectly (thereafter).
"And I learned something from that climb," he told me. "I LEARNED TO NEVER LET ETHICS HURT YOU."
So this is my favorite (or is that famous???) quote. And so to translate to 2009 lingo -- Climb and enjoy, but remember gravity doesn't care who YOU ARE! Be safe out there ... RB
BTW - This is a cool article about climbing in Yos in the early '80's, with Bachar, Kauk, etc.
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sac
Trad climber
spuzzum
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Oct 23, 2009 - 02:11am PT
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Jim Baldwin (Perhaps E. Cooper), on describing their ascent of "The Grand Wall" Squamish.
" We didn't know what to expect... but that was to be expected"
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susu
Trad climber
East Bay, CA
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Oct 23, 2009 - 02:54am PT
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"The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice" Clint Eastwood
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." -Dr. Seuss
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Oct 23, 2009 - 09:59am PT
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Excellent advice R.B., and a good story.
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kinnikinik
Trad climber
B.C.
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Oct 23, 2009 - 10:12am PT
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"The most important thing about expedition food is that there is some"-Eric Shipton
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Mike.
climber
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Oct 23, 2009 - 11:08am PT
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Some jewels here. (Not a quote.)
"Jazz isn't dead, it just smells funny." -FZ
"If you wait for the weather, you'll never do jack sh#t." -CP
"Before one can do something, one must first be something." -Goethe
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quietpartner
Trad climber
Moantannah
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Oct 23, 2009 - 01:51pm PT
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"Quit sojering"
"Off yer ass and on yer feet....
Outta the shade and in the heat."
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Esparza
Trad climber
Westminster, CA
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Oct 23, 2009 - 03:02pm PT
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Great posts... This is one of my favorites...
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those timid spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." Theodore Roosevelt
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Oct 23, 2009 - 04:36pm PT
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"Everything you ever heard about Berkeley is either true or an understatement."
1975-76 Boalt Hall catalog.
John
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MisterE
Trad climber
Canoga Bark! CA
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Oct 23, 2009 - 05:50pm PT
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Me: "Didn't you get that climb clean?"
Skip: "No, I hung like a wet rag!"
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dogtown
Trad climber
JackAssVille, Wyoming
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Oct 23, 2009 - 07:06pm PT
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Your not LOST if you don’t care where you are.
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Lee Bow
Trad climber
wet island
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Oct 23, 2009 - 07:22pm PT
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The point to climbing is to gain the reputation of being a hardman, and then to do the minimum amount of climbing to maintain that reputation.
Tom Patey?
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the kid
Trad climber
fayetteville, wv
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Oct 23, 2009 - 07:23pm PT
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my favorite at the moment:
"To Believe is to be Strong. Doubt Cramps Energy. Belief is Power" a quote from F.D.R during a conversation with Winston Churchill 1942
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Oct 23, 2009 - 09:14pm PT
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McClinksi, aka Russ McLean, in one of his more lucid moments:
"If you really want to make a name for yourself in this crazy game, find the routes Bonatti backed down from and climb them."
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Flanders!
Trad climber
June Lake, CA
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Oct 23, 2009 - 10:20pm PT
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A favorite of mine as it seems to fits many parts of life: including many of the posts on ST
"WHEN YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE"
Doug
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Shack
Big Wall climber
Reno NV
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Oct 24, 2009 - 02:01am PT
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"I've had a wonderful time, but this wasn't it." - Groucho Marx
"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it is too dark to read." - Groucho Marx
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MisterE
Trad climber
Canoga Bark! CA
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Oct 24, 2009 - 02:35am PT
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I used to think I was indecisive...now
I am not so sure.
Generally speaking, you aren't learning much when your lips are moving.
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BurnRockBurn
climber
South of Black Rock City (CC,NV)
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Oct 25, 2009 - 12:35am PT
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Beauty is just a light switch away!!!!
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Maysho
climber
Soda Springs, CA
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Oct 25, 2009 - 01:33am PT
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"Climbing may be hard, buts it easier than growing up"
Ed Sklar
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Maysho
climber
Soda Springs, CA
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Oct 25, 2009 - 01:36am PT
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"The more you practice, the luckier you get."
Jim Bridwell
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Oct 25, 2009 - 01:56am PT
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There's a sign on interstate 5, just north of Sacramento, which says "Sheriff Detention Facility". They probably thought the sign means "county jail" or "state prison" or something like that, of course dressed up in the unnecessarily fancy language that bureaucrats and the legal system like. Except what the sign actually means is "jail for sheriffs". Perhaps it was designed and made in a prison, by a witty and educated inmate supervised by slow-wits.
This may please those here who are less than enthusiastic about the law, and who wish that sheriffs were kept in jails. I suppose it's possible that there has been some outbreak of lawlessness amongst sheriffs in California, causing there to be a need for a prison just for them, but it seems unlikely.
I keep meaning to take a picture of the thing, it's so funny.
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Banquo
Trad climber
Morgan Hill, CA
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Oct 25, 2009 - 11:47am PT
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"Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid."
Heinrich Heine
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WBraun
climber
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Oct 25, 2009 - 12:05pm PT
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A sign in at a nuclear reactor research facility back in late sixties -
"Nothing is fool proof...fools are ingenious."
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MisterE
Trad climber
Canoga Bark! CA
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Oct 25, 2009 - 12:07pm PT
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"My name is Hans, I am here to conquer your five-sixes."
"There is no German word for 'take'"
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perswig
climber
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Oct 25, 2009 - 12:40pm PT
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"My name is Hans, I am here to conquer your five-sixes."
Now there's a man after my own heart.
On the back of an adaptive ski-rig on a W. Miller trailer:
"Die living."
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roadman
climber
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Oct 25, 2009 - 01:53pm PT
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"in the land of the blind the one eyed man is king".
I heard it off a tom waits CD but I'm sure he stole it. He's got some good ones.
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the museum
Trad climber
Rapid City
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Oct 25, 2009 - 10:43pm PT
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He who knows best knows how little he knows. Thomas Jefferson
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philo
Trad climber
boulder, co.
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Oct 25, 2009 - 10:51pm PT
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Ben Franklin's favorite saying was "You can't bolt your door with a stewed carrot."
But he was struck by lightning so what did he know.
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DrDeeg
Mountain climber
Mammoth Lakes, CA
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Oct 25, 2009 - 10:55pm PT
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Eric Beck was always good for a few:
"At each end of the social spectrum, lies the leisure class."
(This is sometimes attributed to Thorsten Veblen, but I've looked and I believe it truly is Beck's original.)
"That's like practicing bivouacking." (in response to something he thought was a really stupid idea)
"The secret to face climbing is weight transfer."
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Gobee
Trad climber
Los Angeles
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Oct 25, 2009 - 10:58pm PT
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It's better to ask for forgiveness, then for permission?
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philo
Trad climber
boulder, co.
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Oct 25, 2009 - 10:59pm PT
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Then there was the sign at the entrance to the hippie commune...
"No left turn un-stoned"
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Anastasia
Mountain climber
hanging from a crimp and crying for my mama.
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Oct 25, 2009 - 11:20pm PT
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"Great abilities produce great vices as well as virtues."
Greek Proverb
"In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes."
Mark Twain
"It's always further than it looks.
It's always taller than it looks.
It's always harder than it looks."
-The 3 rules of mountaineering.-
"The love we give away is the only love we keep."
Elbert Hubbard
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zip
Trad climber
pacific beach, ca
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Oct 26, 2009 - 09:10am PT
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A good man, is hard to find. - Roy Rogers
A hard man, is good to find. - Mae West
A day without laughter, is a day wasted. - Charlie Chaplin
A day without sex, is a day wasted. - Marilyn Chambers
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Skeptimistic
Mountain climber
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Oct 26, 2009 - 10:26am PT
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Youth is wasted on the young - G Bernard Shaw
and its Scandanavian origin - Too soon old, too late smart
my personal favorite - I love you
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Fogarty
climber
Back in time..
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Oct 26, 2009 - 02:44pm PT
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Fortune favors the bold.
-Terence
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Vertikal
climber
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Oct 26, 2009 - 03:36pm PT
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Victory awaits him who has everything in order -- luck, people call it.
Defeat is certain for him who has neglected to take the necessary precautions in time; this is called bad luck.
--from The South Pole, by Roald Amundsen.
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John Vawter
Social climber
San Diego
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Oct 26, 2009 - 04:18pm PT
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"Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game."
Winston Churchill
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BillO
Boulder climber
Whittier, CA
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Oct 26, 2009 - 04:21pm PT
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I'm not as think as you stoned I am.
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drljefe
climber
Old Pueblo, AZ
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Oct 26, 2009 - 05:20pm PT
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Only users lose drugs.
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MisterE
Trad climber
Canoga Bark! CA
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Oct 26, 2009 - 06:31pm PT
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"If I keep a green bough in my heart
a singing bird
will come"
--Chinese Proverb
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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Jan 30, 2010 - 02:37am PT
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From a YouTube poster:
"Debating creationists on the topic of evolution is rather like trying to play chess with a pigeon - it knocks the pieces over, craps on the board, and flies back to its flock to claim victory."
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Tobia
Social climber
GA
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Jan 30, 2010 - 08:46am PT
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"With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere."
"You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body."
C.S. Lewis
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Tobia
Social climber
GA
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Jan 30, 2010 - 09:18am PT
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What does he need?
Revenge
Revenge.
For what?
Bein' born.
I have thought and talked and smoked on this matter and my decision is....
Courage! What makes a king out of a slave? Courage! What makes the flag on the mast to wave? Courage! What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist, or the dusky dusk? What makes the muskrat guard his musk? Courage! What makes the sphinx the seventh wonder? Courage! What makes the dawn come up like thunder? Courage! What makes the Hottentot so hot? What puts the "ape" in apricot? What have they got that I ain't got?
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d-know
Trad climber
electric lady land
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Jan 30, 2010 - 10:03am PT
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never let it be said that i
didn't do the least i could do. hawkeye from some mash episode
my new slab climbing mantra:
ja, vee believe in nossing. nihilists from the big lebowski
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DanaB
climber
Philadelphia
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Jan 30, 2010 - 10:57am PT
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Somebody asked Memphis Slim, itinerant blues piano player, about his early years of playing in the Delta in the '30s and '40s. " Man, I didn't care about nothin' except whisky, pussy, and having a good time."
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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Jan 30, 2010 - 12:47pm PT
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"What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so."
Al Gore, 2006, quoting Mark Twain
"True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that an edifice, which produces beggars, needs restructuring."
Martin Luther King
As necessary, change the system.
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George R
climber
The Gray Area
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Jan 30, 2010 - 11:39pm PT
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Dude, where's my car ?
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WandaFuca
Social climber
From the gettin place
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Jan 31, 2010 - 12:28am PT
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Oscar Wilde
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WBraun
climber
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Jan 31, 2010 - 12:38am PT
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Men of small knowledge are very much attached to the flowery words .......
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gonzo chemist
climber
the Twilight Zone of someone else's intentions
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Jan 31, 2010 - 12:57am PT
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"Pain or damage don't end the world. Or despair, or f*#king beatings. The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man... and give some back."
Al Swearengen
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WandaFuca
Social climber
From the gettin place
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Jan 31, 2010 - 01:38am PT
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No man knows less than the man who knows it all . . .
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Cpt0bvi0u5
Trad climber
Merced CA
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Jan 31, 2010 - 01:55am PT
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"The thing that I'm getting out of pushing my limits is that I turn impossible to possible. I turn something I havent done to something I'm doing. But the possibilities of what we are capable of doing if we believe in it is the most compelling thing I can think of." - Dean Potter
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bonin_in_the_boneyard
Trad climber
Up the 'Creek w/out a Prada
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Jan 31, 2010 - 02:49am PT
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"Work is the curse of the drinking classes." Oscar Wilde
"He no playa the game, he no maka the rules." Earl Butz on the Pope's opposition to birth control
"Getting caught is the mother of invention." Robert Byrne
"I saw a wino eating grapes and I was like, 'Dude, you have to wait!'" Mitch Hedberg
"Every night before bed I like to have a little milk and cookies..." Richard Pryor telling an audience how he caught fire
"Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." Benjamin Franklin
"Man who run in front of car get tired. Man who run behind car get exhausted." Asian track coach?
"It's the one that says 'Bad Mother F*#ker' on it." Jules Winfield
"Remember, Don... when God closes a door, he opens a dress." Roger Sterling
"F*#k" Proverbial
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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Jan 31, 2010 - 10:02am PT
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True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a have-not. It comes to see that an edifice, which produces have-nots, needs restructuring.
-Variant on Martin Luther King
You must be the change you wish to see.
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Banquo
Trad climber
Morgan Hill, CA
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Jan 31, 2010 - 12:48pm PT
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Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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"If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and Hiroshima. The peoples of this world must unite, or they will parish. This war, that has ravaged so much of the earth, has written these words. The atomic bomb has spelled them out for all men to understand.... By our works we are committed, committed to a world united, before this common peril, in law, and in humanity."
J. Robert Oppenheimer
acceptance speech of the certificate of appreciation from the secretary of war presented by Gen. Groves at Los Alamos, October 16, 1945
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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"I believe our future depends, powerfully, on how well we understand this Cosmos..."
Carl Sagan
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Gene
Social climber
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If Lincoln were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave.
~Gerald Ford
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the kid
Trad climber
fayetteville, wv
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This is my favorite quote:
From "Darkness at Noon"
"I don't like to work, no man does. But I like what's in the work, the chance to find yourself, your own reality. For yourself, not for others. What no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and can never tell what it really means." - Joseph Conrad
kurt
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Srbphoto
Trad climber
Kennewick wa
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" I just saw a Cadillac commercial and the music was by Led Zeppelin. I thought "how nice, Cadillac is trying to appeal to young people""
Some comedian on the radio this morning.
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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Re: belief, believers
1. When you stand for everything you stand for nothing.
2. Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
Re: change
It's a lot easier to change when you can than when you have to.
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cintune
climber
the Moon and Antarctica
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"The mountain doesn't know you're an expert." - John Porter
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Hawkeye
climber
State of Mine
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I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.
Dan Quayle
I have made good judgements in the Past. I have made good judgements in the Future.
Dan Quayle
People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
Dan Quayle
Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.
Dan Quayle
The future will be better tomorrow.
Dan Quayle
More quotations on: [The Future]
We don't want to go back to tomorrow, we want to go forward.
Dan Quayle
We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a *part* of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a *part* of Europe.
Dan Quayle
We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
Dan Quayle
Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts.
Dan Quayle
What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.
Dan Quayle
When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame.
Dan Quayle
[It's] time for the human race to enter the solar system.
Dan Quayle
Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.
Dan Quayle, 11/30/88
One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'.
Dan Quayle, 12/6/89
Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
Dan Quayle, 5/20/92 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)
I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.
Dan Quayle, 5/22/89
Mars is essentially in the same orbit... Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe.
Dan Quayle, 8/11/89
Murphy Brown is doing better than I am. At least she knows she still has a job next year.
Dan Quayle, 8/18/92
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century. |
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jjhellstrom
Trad climber
Dayton, OH
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To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.
-Eva Young
I don't abide by heroes. Oversized characters can dwarf our imagination, making us forget that ordinary people can do extraordinary things, too.
--Janusz Korczak
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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"For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert." (anonymous courtroom attorneys)
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climber9
Trad climber
Cameron Park, CA
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Apr 11, 2010 - 03:42am PT
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On my college buddy's faded yellow t-shirt:
I'm a dirty little monkey and I'm totally out of control.
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MisterE
Social climber
Across Town From Easy Street
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Apr 11, 2010 - 11:37am PT
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"I just got an ant farm? Them fellas didn't grow sh'it!"
-Mitch Hedberg
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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Apr 20, 2010 - 05:13pm PT
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"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."
(J. Krishnamurti)
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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Jun 24, 2010 - 11:16am PT
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Yvon Chouinard-
"We're a part of nature. As we destroy nature, we destroy ourselves. It is a selfish thing to want to protect nature."
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go-B
climber
In God We Trust
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Jun 24, 2010 - 11:46am PT
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Since it cost a lot to win, and even more to lose, you and me gotta spend some time, wonderin' what to choose -Hunter/Garcia
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Seamstress
Trad climber
Yacolt, WA
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Jun 24, 2010 - 06:49pm PT
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"Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."
Shakespeare
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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Jun 30, 2010 - 02:26pm PT
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"Skipt, you are an idiot. Jesus hates idiots who are incapable of admitting when they are wrong."
-Weschrist, June 2010
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cliffhanger
Trad climber
California
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Jun 30, 2010 - 03:25pm PT
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Hermann Goering Quote
"Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on
a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of
it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people
don't want war neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in
Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the
country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to
drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist
dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no
voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders.
That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked,
and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the
country to danger. It works the same in any country."
by:
Hermann Goering
(1893-1946) Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe, President of the Reichstag, Prime Minister of Prussia and, as Hitler's designated successor, the second man in the Third Reich. [Göring]
Date:
April 18, 1946
Source:
Nuremberg Diary (Farrar, Straus & Co 1947), by Gustave Gilbert (an Allied appointed psychologist), who visited daily with Goering and his cronies in their cells, afterwards making notes and ultimately writing the book about these conversations.
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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Jun 30, 2010 - 03:37pm PT
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In the spirit of Cliffhanger's post, I'll add:
A cynic is someone who sees things the way they really are...
Mark Twain
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Norwegian
Trad climber
Placerville, California
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Jun 30, 2010 - 03:57pm PT
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in conversation with the lord, i sputter such as:
gowd fukin dammit!
why do you pry sorrow from me you dos focking c%&nt!
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eeyonkee
Trad climber
Golden, CO
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Jun 30, 2010 - 06:11pm PT
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"A man who hates kids and dogs can't be all bad." W.C. Fields
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Jun 30, 2010 - 06:19pm PT
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A few Churchill quotes...
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
"Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old."
"I like a man who grins when he fights."
"If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack."
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moacman
Trad climber
Montana
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Jun 30, 2010 - 07:08pm PT
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"You can't make chicken salad out of chicken sh*t"
(Mom)
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Jun 30, 2010 - 07:44pm PT
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"Slurp, chortle, momf."--Brenda Puff
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MisterE
Social climber
Bouncy Tiggerville
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Jun 30, 2010 - 07:47pm PT
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^^Mom quotes!^^
Regarding a complaint about the small size of the pantry, and the over-sized walk-in closet on the other side, I suggested moving the wall a foot or two. She looked at me aghast and quipped:
"You can't just hack it out with a chainsaw and call it a day!"
haha - I'll never forget that one...
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SicMic
climber
across the street from Marshall, CO
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Jun 30, 2010 - 07:58pm PT
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"Don't slap rude and sail if you're shaky at the grade."
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Mimi
climber
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Jun 30, 2010 - 07:59pm PT
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Saw a good bumper sticker today:
Wag more. Bark less.
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Seamstress
Trad climber
Yacolt, WA
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Jun 30, 2010 - 08:16pm PT
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From my daugher at 5 years old, told we have no money for the toy she wanted to buy....
"There is a money machine over there. You can get some."
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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Jul 13, 2010 - 11:44am PT
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"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."
-Jonathan Swift
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Norwegian
Trad climber
Placerville, California
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Jul 13, 2010 - 01:16pm PT
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a blank stare passage comprises a quick quote, held dearly.
conversations with a bullet.
hope flickers, so the finger engages the trigger.
the infant moment following, where he stares upon the business end of the bullet that will soon alight him, is a slight pause in eternity.
the inanimate bullet becomes his chaufer.
"where you wish?" it inquires.
"away from everywhere, into nowhere's open arms." he muses.
the projection of the bullet interrupts while it processes his insufficient request.
then, flight resumes and the bullet mutters,
"dumb f*#k. the pains that i impart will not be temporary. they will be yours and your's until.
with the transaction complete, abiding forces such as acceleration due to gravity and deceleration due to wind drag uphold their duty upon both the bullet and his emotions.
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SCseagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz
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Jul 13, 2010 - 04:22pm PT
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back in late 70s I spotted this bumper sticker (obviously someone fed up with burgeoning environmental love fest) "Nuke the Whales" Not my politics but it did capture an alternative version of life at the time.
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BooDawg
Social climber
Paradise Island
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Jul 14, 2010 - 08:10am PT
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"Life is a bivouac." -Russ McLean
"You never know..." -Fred Becky
"We cheated death again!" -Russ McLean
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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Jul 19, 2010 - 09:41pm PT
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"You didn't check the forecast??? Seems mighty irresponsible."
"This is the kind of mindset that gets people killed. Mountains don't move. It'll be there another day. Rolling the dice on that day with that forecast not only could have gotten you killed, but endangered the lives of SAR professionals."
"When non-climbers weigh in on climbing related issues, it's really outrageous."
-Cragman, July 2010, a Third Pillar of Dana thread
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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Jul 19, 2010 - 09:46pm PT
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"If we differ on ultimates, then we are ultimately different. If you have one vision of ultimate reality and value, and I have another, then we have nowhere to go when we encounter deep conflicts of interest. If we lack a shared orientation in nature and history, and if we lack a common understanding of who we are and what we should strive for together, then we lack the means to transcend our differences when the soical chips are down. We will be left to think that the other just has it wrong."
Loyal Rue, Religion is Not About God, 2005
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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Jul 19, 2010 - 10:22pm PT
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"Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them."
-Thomas Jefferson
re: god concepts, too:
Jehovah: God of Moses; God of Abraham; God of the ancient Hebrews; God of modern Jews, Christians and Muslims
Hypercrates: personification of the ultimate force, or ultimate forces, controlling the Cosmos and the lives, nature and history of living things
Diacrates: hypothetical Intelligence many, including Einstein, speculated about as a possibility
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The Chef
climber
Topsfield Ma
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Jul 20, 2010 - 12:24am PT
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"Men hang out their signs indicitive of their respective trades. Shoemakers hang out a gigantic shoe; jewelers a monster watch; even a dentist hangs out a gold tooth; but in the Franconia Mountains God Almighty has hung out a sign to show that in New England He makes men" Daniel Webster, 1831
"Put a cast on your pussy bone and do it" Joseph Re, 2009
"Every day I go to the paper to check the Obituaries. If I'm not in there, it's a good day" George Carlin, 19??
Joe.
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Daphne
Trad climber
Mill Valley, CA
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Jul 20, 2010 - 12:29am PT
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"Time isn't the enemy. Fear of change is. Accept that nothing lasts forever and you'll start to appreciate the advantages of whatever age you are now."
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BooDawg
Social climber
Paradise Island
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Jul 21, 2010 - 01:53am PT
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Mono Lake lies in a lifeless, treeless, hideous desert eight thousand feet above the level of the sea…
…its sluggish waters are so strong with alkali that if you only dip the most hopelessly soiled garment into them once or twice and wring it out, it will be found as clean as if it had been through the ablest of washerwomen’s hands…
…This water is not good for bruised places and abrasions of the skin. We had a valuable dog. He had raw places on him. He had more raw places than sound ones. He was the rawest dog I almost ever saw. He jumped overboard one day to get away from the flies. But it was bad judgment. In his condition, it would have been just as comfortable to jump into the fire. The alkali water nipped him in all the raw places simultaneously, and he set out for shore with considerable interest. He yelped and barked and howled as he went – and by the time he got to shore there was no bark to him – for he had barked the bark all out of his inside, and the alkali water had cleaned the bark all off his outside, and he probably wished he’d never embarked on any such enterprise…
A white man cannot drink the water of Mono Lake for it is nearly pure lye. It is said that the Indians in the vicinity drink it sometimes, though. It is not improbable, for they are among the purest liars I ever saw.
-Mark Twain, Roughing It
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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Aug 16, 2010 - 03:38pm PT
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re: the slander and hostility posted on the forum of supertopo
"It all starts with snarky, condescending comments by these Christian freaks on their religious threads."
Pate
August, 2010
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Aug 16, 2010 - 06:00pm PT
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Good one, Daph!
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Srbphoto
climber
Kennewick wa
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Aug 23, 2010 - 05:22pm PT
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"Golf is now more bad ass than trad climbing!"
John Bachar - "Doug Robinson, Sean Jones, rap bolt South face of Half Dome!" thread on the Taco.
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MisterE
Social climber
Bouncy Tiggerville
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Aug 23, 2010 - 08:04pm PT
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Another bumper sticker:
Can you fix my husband? He says he's broke
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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Sep 25, 2010 - 05:25pm PT
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"They're pussies. [Democrats] are the worse salesmen in the world - they could not talk Lindsey Lohan into a rum and coke."
Bill Maher
Real Time, Sept 24, 2010
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Brokedownclimber
Trad climber
Douglas, WY
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Nov 12, 2010 - 11:18pm PT
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You can't fool all the people all the time....that's why there are 2 political parties...
Bob Hope
This is one of my favorites when surfing the political threads here, and reading Dr. F's rants.
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MisterE
Social climber
Bouncy Tiggerville
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Nov 14, 2010 - 07:59pm PT
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Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Douglas Adams
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MisterE
Social climber
Bouncy Tiggerville
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Nov 14, 2010 - 08:03pm PT
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Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
Douglas Adams
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
Douglas Adams
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
Douglas Adams
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Maysho
climber
Soda Springs, CA
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Nov 14, 2010 - 08:46pm PT
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"The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear."
Aung San Suu Kyi
And she was freed yesterday after 15 years of being detained by the government of Burma!
Peter
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MisterE
Social climber
Bouncy Tiggerville
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Nov 14, 2010 - 09:56pm PT
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"The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear."
Aung San Suu Kyi
And she was freed yesterday after 15 years of being detained by the government of Burma!
Peter
Perfect, Peter.
Thanks.
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Tobia
Social climber
GA
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Nov 15, 2010 - 06:44am PT
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"(barf)" - A Crowley
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hallvano
climber
Norway
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Nov 15, 2010 - 09:30am PT
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"Sports climbing is like eating on McDonalds, you know what you get"
Written on the bar of Climbers Café, Lofoten, Norway. Dunno who said it.
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skywalker
climber
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Nov 15, 2010 - 10:31am PT
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"Don't cry because its over, smile because it happened"
S.....
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Nov 15, 2010 - 11:18am PT
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"The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children"
Ivan Turgenev
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seth kovar
climber
Reno, NV
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Nov 15, 2010 - 11:26am PT
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"Almost only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades" - ?
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the kid
Trad climber
fayetteville, wv
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Nov 15, 2010 - 11:27am PT
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"I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know. "
Joseph Conrad- HEart of Darkness
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FRUMY
Trad climber
SHERMAN OAKS,CA
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Nov 15, 2010 - 11:28am PT
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the darkest most evil thing any humane has ever done.
jefferson Davis
talking about the emancipation proclamation.
don't worry the tea party is here & we are going constitutional - states rights - slavery is on the way back.
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HuecoRat
Trad climber
NJ
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Nov 15, 2010 - 12:20pm PT
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The will to win is nothing...compared to the will to prepare to win.
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neversummer
Mountain climber
perris, cali
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Nov 15, 2010 - 12:52pm PT
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want in one hand and sh#t in the other, see which one fills up first.
thats what my dad always said anyways
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Gorgeous George
Trad climber
Los Angeles, California
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Nov 15, 2010 - 02:08pm PT
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A polymath is someone who likes everything and nothing else. Umberto Eco
The truth, uncompromisingly told, always has its ragged edges. Herman Melville
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Mark Not-circlehead
Boulder climber
Martinez, CA
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Nov 15, 2010 - 02:18pm PT
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Probably already posted already in this thread, but here goes anyway.
My two favorite "Tucker-isms":
" I merely choose not to feel pain"
" In this life, you don't get what you want, you get what you deserve"
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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Nov 23, 2010 - 01:41pm PT
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Henri Poincare: We also know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling.
Bob (under 40): More "consoling" or more important? Nothing's more important than truth -no matter how hard or sharp its edges.
Bob (over 40): Did I really say that? Whoops, youthful indiscretion.
.....
Struggle between "what is" (what's real/true) and "what matters" (what's important) is always going to exist in the practice of living. Esp across age groups, interest groups, moods, circumstances, etc. Because each in their own way contributes to "what works" in the practice of living.
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this just in
Ice climber
north fork
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Nov 23, 2010 - 03:37pm PT
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"Dirka dirka"
Team America
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Nov 23, 2010 - 08:33pm PT
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"I'll try anything once. Twice if it hurts"
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Captain...or Skully
Big Wall climber
leading the away team, but not in a red shirt!
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Nov 25, 2010 - 05:25pm PT
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There are times when you can only take the next step. And then another.
William Gibson
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Srbphoto
climber
Kennewick wa
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Nov 25, 2010 - 10:05pm PT
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"People will try anything to improve their game, except practice"
Vic Braden, Tennis Coach
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Nick
climber
portland, Oregon
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Nov 26, 2010 - 12:52am PT
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"When your nose is to the grindstone, don't stick your tongue out."
My wife yesterday morning.
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hooblie
climber
from where the anecdotes roam
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Nov 26, 2010 - 10:29am PT
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apropos of our little skirmishes:
"the reason academic disagreements are so bitter is because the stakes are so small"
henry kissinger
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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Nov 26, 2010 - 03:21pm PT
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Here's a twist, showing how it can go either way:
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved..."
Charles Darwin
The Descent of Man (1871)
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Nov 26, 2010 - 03:24pm PT
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I'm reading Ben Franklin's autobiography right now.
There's a "favorite quote",
about every five pages or so.
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Nov 26, 2010 - 03:34pm PT
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A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
Mohandas Gandhi
Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.
Mohandas Gandhi
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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Nov 28, 2010 - 11:19pm PT
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"A hundred pounds of uranium is smaller than a football. Every way that drugs come to New York City would be the same way highly enriched uranium could come. If you have any doubt about the ability of al Qaeda to bring highly enriched uranium into the U.S., they could always hide it in a bale of marijuana."
terrorist expert,
in the film, Countdown to Zero
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dee ee
Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
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"Trivial move, just cranked into it wrong." JL?
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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"I ain't no fukkin' pad person" the Blute.
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groundup
Trad climber
hard sayin' not knowin'
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overheard from somewhere above Touch and Go in Eldorado Canyon:
climber: "I'm screwed! what should I do?!?"
belayer(at the top of his lungs) "what does not kill you, only makes you stronger"
climber(quietly) "but what if it kills me?"
belayer: "uhh... on belay?"
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FRUMY
Trad climber
SHERMAN OAKS,CA
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the sweetest fruit grows at home
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TYeary
Social climber
State of decay
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"You don't need to be a weatherman to know which way the wind blows"
Dylan
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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This guy - George Lawrence - said "The hitherto impossible in photography is my specialty"
Then he backed it up with pictures like this:
http://www.sfgate.com/maps/1906quake/
Lawrence used 17 kites linked together to lift his 50lb camera up over San Francisco Bay to get this shot of the city right after the earthquake of '06. (1906)
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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"All of us cherish our beliefs. They are, to a degree, self-defining. When someone comes along who challenges our belief system as insufficiently well-based - or who, like Socrates, merely asks embarassing questions that we haven't thought of, or demonstrates that we've swept key underlying assumptions under the rug - it becomes much more than a search for knowledge. It feels like a personal assault."
Carl Sagan
Demon Haunted World
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Fredrick
Social climber
Ocean City, NJ
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Most joyous quote:
"For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." John 3:16
Saddest quote:
"And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire." Revelation 20:15
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crunch
Social climber
CO
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"A pinnacle is worth five walls!"
Layton Kor
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chill
climber
between the flat part and the blue wobbly thing
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"If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure".
G.W. Bush
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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Dec 27, 2010 - 08:59pm PT
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"We are becoming a nation of wusses."
Ed Rendell, Governor of Pennsylvania (Dec 2010)
re: the cancellation of an NFL football game due to bad weather
And Rendell's frosting on the cake:
"The Chinese are kicking our butts in everything. If this was in China, do you think the Chinese would've called off the game? People would've been marching down to the stadium, they would have walked and they would have been doing Calculus on the way down."
Rendell is a democrat, too.
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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Dec 27, 2010 - 09:08pm PT
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I think Bush said that if we don't fail, we run the risk of success.
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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Dec 29, 2010 - 02:39pm PT
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re: the ascent of man
"...the ascent of man is not made by loveable people, it's made by people who have two qualities, an immense integrity and at least a little genius."
Jacob Bronowski,
in the film, Ascent of Man
Another from JB:
"That's the essence of science. Ask an impertinent question and you're on the way to the pertinent answer."
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Dec 29, 2010 - 02:43pm PT
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That SF quake/kite shot is amazing, Chaz, cool stuff!
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nita
Social climber
chica from chico..waiting on spring days..
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"Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you. "
— WALT WHITMAN
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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"It has 4 forward gears 12 reverse gears. We like to get out of trouble faster than we get into it." -- Kelly of Kelly's Heros
"There's a lot of truth to those facts." -- Kelly, a famous Technical Writer
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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"If you don't eat yer meat, you can't have any pudding!"
Heard it me 'ole blighted childhood!
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Tea
Trad climber
Behind the Zion Curtain
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"Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead."
— Charles Bukowski
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Amy
Sport climber
Santa Fe, NM
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"Make the best of it, cause there's little choice"
-Karl Baba
Saw that memorable line in another thread and it's been motivating me through my current injured phase!
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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Jan 16, 2011 - 11:55am PT
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“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
Oscar Wilde
Ties in with Amy's.
Thanks Lisa. For the reminder. ;)
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hooblie
climber
from where the anecdotes roam
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Jan 16, 2011 - 12:27pm PT
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on the list of places i've lived are some of the most expensive ones out there. my response, when asked how i managed:
"the cost of doing without is the same wherever you go"
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deepnet
Boulder climber
CA
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Jan 16, 2011 - 12:42pm PT
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"the only time I hold your hand is to get the angle right"
-Amy Winehouse from the song "In My Bed"
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Jan 16, 2011 - 12:48pm PT
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K-man, I believe that was Oddball, (Donald Sutherland) in his rocks in mouth Detroit accent, and not Kelly, who said that.
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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Feb 14, 2011 - 11:20pm PT
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"Right after I came out of jail, I wrote a status message that we are going to win because we don't understand politics, because we don't understand their nasty games; we're going to win because our tears come from our heart."
Wael Ghonim, the young Egyptian who organized the new age revolution in Egypt in Feb 2011
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pocoloco1
Social climber
The Chihuahua Desert
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Feb 14, 2011 - 11:29pm PT
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
Henry David Thoreau
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Feb 14, 2011 - 11:48pm PT
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"I would never join a club that would have me as a member"
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FRUMY
Trad climber
SHERMAN OAKS,CA
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Feb 15, 2011 - 12:01am PT
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The man prayer " I am a man, I can change, if I have to, I guess."
The truth as spoken by Red Green from the Red Green Show.
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Feb 15, 2011 - 12:06am PT
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"If you had to do it all over-would you fall in love with yourself again?" Gershwin
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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Feb 15, 2011 - 12:09am PT
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"I want a real good woman to do just what I say."
Bob Dylan
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Q- Ball
Mountain climber
where the wind always blows
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Feb 15, 2011 - 12:10am PT
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"There aren't any strangers in the mountains, just friend's you haven't met" Skinner saying.
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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Feb 24, 2011 - 05:24pm PT
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Believe a quarter of what you hear and half of what you see.
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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Feb 24, 2011 - 05:26pm PT
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Jaybro, you are absolutely correct, it was Oddball....
How's this one, from my favorite of all SpeedBallers, Lowell George:
All I need is a pretty girl in a lonely town.
~ or ~
One from Robert Earl Keen:
If I could live my life all over
It wouldn't matter anyway
'Cause I never could stay sober
On the Corpus Christi Bay
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FRUMY
Trad climber
SHERMAN OAKS,CA
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Feb 24, 2011 - 05:26pm PT
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Everyone has a plan till they get punched in the face
Mike Tyson
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Gene
climber
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Feb 24, 2011 - 05:35pm PT
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i kind of put my own spillway-spin-off of happines into it...
~Neebee
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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Feb 24, 2011 - 05:43pm PT
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Anyone with half an imagination can imagine a world better than this one.
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Anastasia
climber
hanging from a crimp and crying for my mama.
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Feb 24, 2011 - 05:48pm PT
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Greek Proverbs I grew up with...
"He who becomes a sheep is eaten by the wolf."
"He who doesn't listen to his friends, makes his enemies happy."
"At age 20 mind, at age 30 life, at age 40 a wife. Otherwise no mind no life no wife." (Kefalonian proverb)
"Too many opinions sink the boat."
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Q- Ball
Mountain climber
where the wind always blows
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Feb 24, 2011 - 10:17pm PT
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There are no strangers in the mountains, just friends you haven't met -Courtney Skinner
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Jingy
climber
Somewhere out there
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Feb 24, 2011 - 10:32pm PT
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With every sunrise there is a new chance. But with every sunset you know you blew it
It takes a big man to cry, and it takes an even bigger man to laugh at that man.
Jack Handy
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Douglas Rhiner
Mountain climber
Truckee , CA
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Feb 24, 2011 - 10:34pm PT
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Don't worry America, Israel will protect you - Jeff Elfont
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yosguns
climber
Durham, NC
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Feb 24, 2011 - 10:36pm PT
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Never try to teach a pig to sing...
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drunkenmaster
Social climber
santa rosa
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Feb 24, 2011 - 10:54pm PT
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“'You are drunk Sir Winston, you are disgustingly drunk. 'Yes, Mrs. Braddock, I am drunk. But you, Mrs. Braddock are ugly, and disgustingly fat. But, tomorrow morning, I, Winston Churchill will be sober.”
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drunkenmaster
Social climber
santa rosa
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Feb 24, 2011 - 10:55pm PT
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"Actually, it only takes one drink to get me loaded. Trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or fourteenth."
-George Burns
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Feb 25, 2011 - 12:24am PT
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hey there all, say, i got some favorite quotes, right about now:
course: they're from folks that are about as fictional as any good fiction folks should be, :)
HERE IS A FEW:
"You need to hand-shake a branch in person, you see?"
(said by sheriff lenny lowrie, to mr. david dare, in:
SOMETIMES CLOTHES MAKE THE MAN -- EXCEPT WHEN THEY DON'T
"Your gimlets a mite crooked, AIN'T IT?"
(said by jade smith, to an snooty old aquaintance of sofia's, in:
"I DON'T CARE IF IT'S BROKEN... I'VE GROWN FOND OF IT..."
"He'll never ben an Alex Humbolt, that's for sure,"
(said by the mingling-crowd, to angie emmeric, in:
ANGIE'S ALARMED ALEX
"Ma also told me there's lots of hoses in the store in town, if a man feels like going a few extra MILES to get one..."
(Jake's "trapped thoughts" good enough for a fine "quote of his own" if he could talk) meant to be said to his wife sofia, in:
"I DON'T CARE IF IT'S BROKEN... I'VE GROWN FOND OF IT..."
okay, that ought to do it for now....
:)
*course, as i always say:
"there's nothing like an unfamous-author to lay down many-a-steppingstones to her ol' books... that is, if she's partial enough to her own writing, to do so..."
said by neebee to the ol' supertopo-taco...
hee hee
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Feb 25, 2011 - 01:26am PT
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In honor of Juan:
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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Feb 25, 2011 - 02:25am PT
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Anybody know who Vannevar Bush is?
"To pursue science is not to disparage the thngs of the spirit. In fact, to pursue science rightly is to furnish the framework on which the spirit may rise."
Vannevar Bush (1946)
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Guernica
climber
the second star to the right
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Feb 25, 2011 - 02:48am PT
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"Be patient towards all that is unsolved within your heart and try to love the questions themselves."
Rainer Maria Rilke
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Feb 25, 2011 - 03:16am PT
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Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission.
Vannevar Bush
OFFICE OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
1530 P Street, NW.
Washington 25, D.C.
JULY 25, 1945
DEAR MR. PRESIDENT:
In a letter dated November 17, 1944, President Roosevelt requested my recommendations on the following points:
(1) What can be done, consistent with military security, and with the prior approval of the military authorities, to make known to the world as soon as possible the contributions which have been made during our war effort to scientific knowledge?
(2) With particular reference to the war of science against disease, what can be done now to organize a program for continuing in the future the work which has been done in medicine and related sciences?
(3) What can the Government do now and in the future to aid research activities by public and private organizations?
(4) Can an effective program be proposed for discovering and developing scientific talent in American youth so that the continuing future of scientific research in this country may be assured on a level comparable to what has been done during the war?
It is clear from President Roosevelt's letter that in speaking of science that he had in mind the natural sciences, including biology and medicine, and I have so interpreted his questions. Progress in other fields, such as the social sciences and the humanities, is likewise important; but the program for science presented in my report warrants immediate attention.
In seeking answers to President Roosevelt's questions I have had the assistance of distinguished committees specially qualified to advise in respect to these subjects. The committees have given these matters the serious attention they deserve; indeed, they have regarded this as an opportunity to participate in shaping the policy of the country with reference to scientific research. They have had many meetings and have submitted formal reports. I have been in close touch with the work of the committees and with their members throughout. I have examined all of the data they assembled and the suggestions they submitted on the points raised in President Roosevelt's letter.
Although the report which I submit herewith is my own, the facts, conclusions, and recommendations are based on the findings of the committees which have studied these questions. Since my report is necessarily brief, I am including as appendices the full reports of the committees.
A single mechanism for implementing the recommendations of the several committees is essential. In proposing such a mechanism I have departed somewhat from the specific recommendations of the committees, but I have since been assured that the plan I am proposing is fully acceptable to the committee members.
The pioneer spirit is still vigorous within this nation. Science offers a largely unexplored hinterland for the pioneer who has the tools for his task. The rewards of such exploration both for the Nation and the individual are great. Scientific progress is one essential key to our security as a nation, to our better health, to more jobs, to a higher standard of living, and to our cultural progress.
Respectfully yours,
(s) V. Bush, Director
THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES,
The White House,
Washington, D. C.
an historic foot note, the Trinity test took place on July 16, 1945. The atomic bombing of Hiroshima was August 6, 1945 and of Nagasaki August 9, 1945.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Feb 25, 2011 - 04:22am PT
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hey there say, gene.... oh my, i just saw you liked a quote from one of my posts, on another thread.... :)) say, i MUST now use that quote in one of my stories, as i has some kind of sparkle to it, now...
:)
hmmm, i reckon i will give that line, to jade... :)
...somehow someway... :)
thanks for the fun smile you brought me tonight...
happy supertopo eve, to one and all...
:)
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seth kovar
climber
Reno, NV
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Feb 28, 2011 - 12:37pm PT
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"In our culture, you have to walk the walk, to earn respect. There are some that climb at the highest level, and some who are just starting, but the shared experience, gives us all something in common." -- Coz
right f-ing on...
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FRUMY
Trad climber
SHERMAN OAKS,CA
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"If you see it hit it".
Yogi Berra
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FRUMY
Trad climber
SHERMAN OAKS,CA
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Mar 22, 2011 - 09:13pm PT
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"While a battle is raging one can see his enemy mowed down by the thousands, or the ten thousand, with great composure; but after the battle these scenes are distressing, and one is naturally disposed to do as much to alleviate the suffering of an enemy as a friend."
Ulysses S. Grant
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Gal
Trad climber
a semi lucid consciousness
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Mar 22, 2011 - 09:39pm PT
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Okay,Whatever-I like those quotes.
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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Mar 31, 2011 - 06:45pm PT
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We not only came from monkeys, we all came from a tree shrew. And I am proud to come from a tree shrew.
BASE104
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philo
Trad climber
Somewhere halfway over the rainbow
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Mar 31, 2011 - 06:47pm PT
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"You can't bolt your door with a stewed carrot".
Ben Franklin.
This was reported to be his favorite saying.
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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Mar 31, 2011 - 08:43pm PT
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"But this much I know: When the storm breaks, each man acts in accordance with his own nature. Some are dumb with terror. Some flee. Some hide. And some... spread their wings like eagles and soar on the wind."
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Do you see this fine thing? Do you admire the
humanity of it? Because the human beings, my son, they believe
everything is alive. Not only man and animals. But also water,
earth, stone. And also the things from them... like that hair. The
man from whom this hair came, hes bald on the other side, because
I now own his scalp! That is the way things are. But the white man,
they believe EVERYTHING is dead. Stone, earth, animals. And people!
Even their own people! If things keep trying to live, white man
will rub them out. That is the difference.
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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Gary,
Thanks. I just put Little Big Man (1970) on my movie list. Somehow i missed it, looks really good.
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jamatt
Social climber
Asheville, NC
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"When the shadow of the sash appeared on the curtains it was between seven and eight o’clock and then I was in time again, hearing the watch. It was Grandfather's and when Father gave it to me he said I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire; it's rather excruciating-ly apt that you will use it to gain the reducto absurdum of all human experience which can fit your individual needs no better than it fitted his or his father's. I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools."
-William Faulkner, Sound and Fury, June 2, 1910 (Chapter 2)
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WBraun
climber
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All this lip service here doesn't do sh'it ......
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Chango
Trad climber
norcal
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"This above all: to thine own self be true"
William Shakespeare
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 2, 2011 - 10:20am PT
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“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea”
~Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool." Richard Feynman
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Phantom X
Trad climber
Honeycomb Hideout
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"I'm hungrier than a Bullbitch with fourteen pups" Smokey Stover
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allapah
climber
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Apr 10, 2011 - 12:28am PT
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"Surely, Herr Doktor, you do not object to a morning shower?"
Anderl in The Eiger Sanction
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climber bob
Social climber
maine
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Apr 11, 2011 - 01:31pm PT
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"red at night, rain it might" lepton man on awakening to rain on the top of leaning tower after watching a red sunset
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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Apr 15, 2011 - 06:48pm PT
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Father to Son,
"You are probably aware that I am not a particularly religious person, at least in the sense of embracing any of the numerous conventional doctrines. Yet I cannot conceive of a man endowed with intellect, perceiving the ordered universe around him, the glory of the mountain top, the plumage of the tropical bird, the roiling mysteries of the ocean depths, the intricate complexity of a protein molecule, the utter and unchanging perfection of a salt crystal, who can deny the existence of some higher power. Whether he choses to call it God or Mohammed, the Turquoise Woman, the Invisible Pink Unicorn, or the Law of Probability matters little. I find myself, in my writings, calling upon Mother Nature to explain things, and citing Her as responsible for the order of the universe. She is a very satisfactory divinity for me. And so I shall call upon Her to watch over you and guard you, and if she so desires, to share with you some of her vast secrets which She is usually so ready to share with those who have high purpose."
In a letter to NASA Mercury astronaut Scott Carpenter by his father -
just before Carpenter's famous orbital Mercury spaceflight -
1962
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FRUMY
Trad climber
SHERMAN OAKS,CA
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Apr 15, 2011 - 08:55pm PT
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HFCS - TFPU
Good quote
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Apr 15, 2011 - 09:46pm PT
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Great quote HFCS.
Although I think MN is in a bit of a pissed off mood of late.
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Apr 15, 2011 - 10:54pm PT
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An unlived life is not worth examining
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Ihateplastic
Trad climber
It ain't El Cap, Oregon
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Apr 16, 2011 - 03:20am PT
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"I did the twenty-three-hour Nose route to the top of El Capitan in eighteen hours and twenty-three minutes, I can get over this."
Avery Bishop
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perswig
climber
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Apr 17, 2011 - 09:19am PT
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Nice find, HFCS.
My new favorite (found on a shooting forum, no less):
"I didn't say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you."
Ha.
Dale
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Tomcat
Trad climber
Chatham N.H.
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Apr 17, 2011 - 10:10am PT
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If you don't know which knot,tie a lot.....
But my all time fav is " I wish I was as sure about one thing as he is about everything".
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Apr 17, 2011 - 12:39pm PT
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"Paul is undead"
Zombie movie about the Beatles.
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Apr 17, 2011 - 03:50pm PT
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"Red sky at night, sailors' delight.
Red sky in the morning, sailor eats sh#t."
Guido
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Apr 17, 2011 - 11:11pm PT
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"Man, I'm getting too old for this sh#t." Me. After pretty much every climb with an approach of more than 10 minutes lately.
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Jay Wood
Trad climber
Fairfax, CA
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Apr 18, 2011 - 12:32am PT
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"Some cause happiness wherever they go;
others, whenever they go." Oscar Wilde
"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends." ibid
"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure."
Clarence Darrow
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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Apr 18, 2011 - 06:01pm PT
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Jay,
Those are good ones.
.....
"We are at the threshold of the greatest revolution in man's history, the comprehension of the nature of life itself. There is no greater object of wonder, no greater thing of beauty, than the dynamic order, the organized complexity of life. And what we are witnessing is perhaps the most dramatic event in the slow evolution of life - the human brain scrutinizing itself and its origins, life turning on itself! We who are of nature are evolving to know nature."
From "Cell Structure and Function"
Ariel Loewy and Philip Siekevitz
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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Apr 24, 2011 - 12:51pm PT
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Man, you are one twisted f*#k.
Nope, I'm just an ordinary guy with nothing to lose.
.....
"Rockclimbing is one of the things hydrogen atoms do given 15 billion years of cosmic evolution."
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Apr 24, 2011 - 12:53pm PT
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Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates. - Werner Herzog
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Sonic
Trad climber
Central Coast, California
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Apr 24, 2011 - 12:56pm PT
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"Youre either a recovering alpinist or a recovering alchoholic."
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hooblie
climber
from where the anecdotes roam
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Apr 24, 2011 - 01:01pm PT
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"get back loretta"
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perswig
climber
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Apr 25, 2011 - 07:39am PT
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A partner, very strong rock climber but novice on ice:
"Climbing steep ice hurts my cows."
English is not his native tongue.
Dale
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Batrock
Trad climber
Burbank
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Apr 25, 2011 - 07:51am PT
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"Atom bombs take all the fun out of war" Edward Abbey
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Jennie
Trad climber
Elk Creek, Idaho
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Apr 25, 2011 - 08:32am PT
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"All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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Apr 27, 2011 - 09:14pm PT
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"Don't say penis in this house!"
Ronnie's mom to Ronnie,
in the film, Born on the Fourth of July
"Penis! Big f*#king erect penis, Mom!"
Penis!
Penis!
Ronnie
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Chango
Trad climber
norcal
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Apr 27, 2011 - 10:53pm PT
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"We've got no food, we've got no jobs...our pets heads are falling off!"
Lloyd...."Dumb and Dumber"
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OR
Trad climber
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Apr 27, 2011 - 11:17pm PT
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" Hey, kick me down some of that kick ass cheesebread"
Mr Way begging a waitress behind the Mountain Room for a meal while she was having a smoke break.
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Gene
climber
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Apr 28, 2011 - 05:57pm PT
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If you fall to your left, you fall 8,000 feet into Nepal. If you fall to your right, you fall 12,000 feet into Tibet. It’s probably better to fall into Tibet because you’ll live a little longer. Either way, you’ll fall for the rest of your life.
Ken Kambler on the final part of the South Col route on Everest
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the kid
Trad climber
fayetteville, wv
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I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blue blaze, Than it be stifled by dry rot.
I would rather be a superb meteor, Every atom of me in magnificent glow, Than a sleepy and permanent planet.
The proper function of a man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
"Jack London"
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Full Silos of Iowa
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"Imagine that you enter a parlor. You come late. When you arrive, others have long preceded you, and they are engaged in a heated discussion, a discussion too heated for them to pause and tell you exactly what it is about. In fact, the discussion had already begun long before any of them got there, so that no one present is qualified to retrace for you all the steps that had gone before. You listen for a while, until you decide that you have caught the tenor of the argument; then you put in your oar. Someone answers; you answer him; another comes to your defense; another aligns himself against you, to either the embarrassment or gratification of your opponent, depending upon the quality of your ally's assistance. However, the discussion is interminable. The hour grows late, you must depart. And you do depart, with the discussion still vigorously in progress."
Kenneth Burke
A parlor or a certain climbing forum?
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o-man
Trad climber
Paia,Maui,HI
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"But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he cannot learn, feel, change, grow or live. Chained by his servitude he is a slave who has forfeited all freedom. Only a person who risks is free. The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; and the realist adjusts the sails." William Arthur Ward
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perswig
climber
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" What part of go fukin climb the damned thing and find out are YOU not getting?"
-Khanom
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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"This is where if I had a d*ck I'd tell you to suck it" Betty White in the movie Lake Placid
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seth kovar
climber
Reno, NV
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I downgrade everything I do.
If I can't do it I insist that a hold has broken, deem it utter choss, and move on.
I'm also the raddest climber I've ever met. --weschrist
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Topic Author's Reply - May 6, 2011 - 11:18am PT
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"But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he cannot learn, feel, change, grow or live. Chained by his servitude he is a slave who has forfeited all freedom. Only a person who risks is free. The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; and the realist adjusts the sails." William Arthur Ward
If Supertopo had a "like" feature, I'd have to click "like" for this one.
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WBraun
climber
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^^^^^^^^^
Chained by his servitude he is a slave who has forfeited all freedom.
No one. Absolutely no one is free from servitude.
Every living entity is a servant, every single one.
There is absolutely no way any living entity can break free from servitude.
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ruppell
climber
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May 30, 2011 - 02:34am PT
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Anatoli Boukreev – “We go to the mountains to satisfy our own ambitions, not because others evaluate what we are doing.”
Should be a pledge before you can post here. or maybe it should read:
"WE GOT TO THE MOUNTAINS BECAUSE OTHERS EVALUATE US TO SATISFY THERE AMBITIONS"
Which one would you want to hear yourself say.
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Tom
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo CA
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May 30, 2011 - 05:59am PT
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I went into the Mountain Shop, because I wanted to be cool.
Now, then, you have to make sure you don't get your velocity mixed up with your veracity.
Neal Cassady
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Fixdpin
Trad climber
Springville,CA
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May 30, 2011 - 08:43am PT
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"Hey man, that ain't no 5.9!"
John Long after doing Thin Ice at the Needles, Giant Sequoia National Monument.
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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May 30, 2011 - 02:26pm PT
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Shit! Someone just cashed my reality check.
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rmuir
Social climber
From the Time Before the Rocks Cooled.
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Recently found on a note pad I used to keep handy for gathering favorite sayings. The attributes are all pretty accurate, I think.
>After careful research, it has been determined that a resource was completely
> ignored in the frenzy of Y2K testing and has now surfaced to haunt Sysadmin
> and Technical Support personnel. The EBCC/LIC(1) isn't Y2K compliant and
> should be handled with extreme care until a patch can be created and applied.
>
> (1) Equipment Between Computer and Chair/ Luser in Chair
That one's going in the excuse database. I just used it in an e-mail, and
one PHB said, "good that you're keeping up with this. when will it be taken
care of?" Blissfully clueless lot. Makes me wonder just _how_far I can take
acronyms.
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"Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate."
-- Dante Alighieri, "La Divina Commedia"
It's is not, it isn't ain't, and it's it's, not its, if you mean it is.
If you don't, it's its. Then too, it's hers. It isn't her's. It isn't
our's either. It's ours, and likewise yours and theirs.
-- Oxford University Press, Edpress News
"I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest."
-- Alexandre Dumas (fils)
Don't remember what you can infer.
-- Harry Tennant
"The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off"
-- Angela P. Elliott
aibohphobia n. A fear of palindromes.
S A T O R
A R E P O
T E N E T
O P E R A
R O T A S
On action alone be thy interest, never on its fruits.
-- ("Bhagavad Gita")
I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less
than half of you half as well as you deserve.
-- Bilbo Baggins, _Lord of the Rings_
NP: _Best of King's X_ - King's X / "QUIDQUID LATINE DICTUM SIT,
PROFUNDUM VIDITUR"
(Whatever is said in Latin appears profound) - from COL users mailing
list
Whatever is not nailed down is mine. Whatever I can pry up is not nailed down.
-- Collis P. Huntingdon, railroad tycoon
"That is the sort of arrant pedantry up with which I shall not put."
OS X: Because making Unix user-friendly was easier than debugging Windows
-- Simon Slavin, on a.f.c
"Speed is subsittute fo accurancy."
If you don't have a nasty obituary you probably didn't matter.
-- Freeman Dyson
"Doveriai no proveriai." (Trust but verify.)
-- Russian proverb, as quoted by Ronald Reagan
The differential of hi over ho is ho di hi minus hi d ho ho over ho ho.
Esse Quam Vederi -- that is the motto of the state of North Carolina, and for those of you who learned languages like Perl in High School instead of Latin, it means "To Be, Rather Than To Seem".
"The State of California has no business subsidizing intellectual
curiosity."
-- Ronald Reagan
"When in fear, and when in doubt;
Run in circles, scream and shout!"
-- Robert Heinlein
"A man, a plan, a canoe, pasta, heros, rajahs, a coloratura, maps, snipe, percale, macaroni, a gag, a banana bag, a tan, a tag, a banana bag again (or a camel), a crepe, pins, Spam, a rut, a Rolo, cash, a jar, sore hats, a peon, a canal-- Panama!"
-- Guy Steele Jr., CLTL2
"Some people are heroes. And some people jot down notes."
-- Terry Pratchett, The Truth
"The only cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."
-- Dorothy Parker
"Their incompetence robs them of the ability to realize it."
-- Kruger/Dunning, Journal of Personality & Social Psychology,
Dec. 1999, on incompetent people.
"I don't have any solution but I certainly admire the problem."
-- Ashleigh Brilliant
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character,
give him power.
-- Abraham Lincoln
If anyone disagrees with any statement I make, I am quite prepared not only to retract it, but also to deny under oath that I ever made it.
-- T. Lehrer
Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement...let me go upstairs and check.
-- M.C. Escher
The most dementing of all modern sins: the inability to distinguish excellence
from success.
-- David Hare
With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good
idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be dangerous
sitting under them as they fly overhead. [RFC1925 - section 2, subsection 3]
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
-- Elbert Hubbard
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin
Eisenhower was very nice,
Nixon was his only vice.
-- C. Degen
"There's no shame in giving in when you've got no alternative whatsoever."
-- Terry Pratchett, "The Dark Side of the Sun"
All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing...
-- Edmund Burke
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote."
--Benjamin Franklin, 1759
There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle.
-- G.K. Chesterton
There are only 10 types of people in this world: those who understand
binary, and those who don't.
-- Arne Buhmann
Prediction is difficult, especially of the future.
--- Niels Bohr
The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
-- Alvin Toffler
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
-- Vernon Schryver
Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.
--Hogfather, by Terry Pratchett
Sending >500KB attachments is forbidden by the Geneva Convention. Your country may be at risk if you fail to comply.
-- ntk
One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains
to be done.
-- Marie Curie
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Berlioz
Reality is what you bump into when you walk around with your eyes closed.
-- Raymond Fiest
In part of the 1700s, American currency was measured in bytes. Two bits is simply 25 cents, a quarter of a byte.
--AJR in asr
The truly paranoid administrator may wish to place motion detectors in the air ducts.
-- Practical UNIX & Internet Security, 2nd Edition
"The key words 'MUST', 'MUST NOT', 'DO', 'DON'T', 'REQUIRED', 'SHALL', 'SHALL NOT', 'SHOULD', 'SHOULD NOT', 'RECOMMENDED', 'MAY', 'MAY BE' and 'OPTIONAL' in this document do not mean anything."
-- RFC 3251
It taketh but short space to craze men of indifferent understanding with a new thing.
-- Mark Twain
Networks are like sewers... My job is to make sure your data goes away when you
flush, and to stop the rats climbing into your toilet through the pipes.
-- Network administration, as told by Tanuki
The Internet is totally out of control, impossible to map accurately, and being used
far beyond its original intentions. So far, so good.
-- Dr. Dobb's Journal May 1993
The mere act of drinking beer in an attempt to measure your tolerance is likely to affect your impression of how many beers you've drunk.
-- The Heineken uncertainty principle.
What did you do to the cat? It looks half-dead.
-- Schroedinger's wife
"Men are from Mars, women are from Venus, pop psychology is from Uranus."
-- Ben@lspace.org
"My place of work has certainly heard of karoshi. They think it's a good idea."
-- Dave Brown
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Fixdpin
Trad climber
Springville,CA
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"Shut up when you're talking to me!"
Israeli tank commander
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
-A community of hairless apes
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Jun 16, 2011 - 08:50pm PT
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“More than at any time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.”
—Woody Allen
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o-man
Social climber
Paia,Maui,HI
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Jun 16, 2011 - 09:43pm PT
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"Don't look at me in that tone of voice!"
Deke Cook
"If can,can
If no can, no can"
Pidgin Philosopher
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 14, 2011 - 12:00pm PT
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"every man dies, not every man lives" -William Wallace
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this just in
climber
north fork
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Jul 14, 2011 - 12:02pm PT
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"Sh#t, If it's going to be this kind of party I'm gonna stick my dick in the mashed potatoes."
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MisterE
Social climber
CA
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Jul 14, 2011 - 12:07pm PT
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The Revolution will not be motorized
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Jul 14, 2011 - 12:09pm PT
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“If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord.”
JS Bach
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Studly
Trad climber
WA
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Jul 14, 2011 - 12:11pm PT
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I could take a good look at a t-bone steak by sticking my head up a bull's ass, but I would rather take the butchers word on it.
Tommy boy
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Chango
Trad climber
norcal
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Jul 14, 2011 - 01:49pm PT
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“I have made an important discovery…that alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities , produces all the effects of intoxication. ” ~ Oscar Wilde
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justin01
Trad climber
sacramento
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Jul 14, 2011 - 02:08pm PT
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“I bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as ABC, hold up truth to your eyes.”
Thomas Paine, December 23, 1776
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neversummer
Trad climber
30 mins. from suicide USA
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Jul 14, 2011 - 02:41pm PT
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"In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is freedom, in water there is bacteria."
Ben Franklin.
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scuffy b
climber
dissected alluvial deposits, late Pleistocene
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Jul 15, 2011 - 08:02pm PT
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Got these off the radio today. I can't offer attribution.
"Inequity leads inevitably to iniquity."
"You can't be too careful when you're dealing with a hex."
This one was in reference to a McCullough chain saw.
The quotee had just explained that he'd torn the saw down to scrap and buried it in three different places.
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Bobert
Trad climber
boulder, Colorado
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Jul 15, 2011 - 08:12pm PT
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"Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter." Satchel Paige.
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couchmaster
climber
pdx
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Jul 15, 2011 - 08:39pm PT
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Crap, I was going to post that great Tom Higgins quote from one of the best threads on this site, the Frank Sacher thread (Tom posts as "Long Ago on Supertopo), but I did a search and saw I'd already posted it here earlier:-0
F*K it, one more time anyway:-)
...my small benediction: let us be most humbled, thankful and awestruck at the prize of consciousness, the sunny days on what we call rock and mountains with others we call friends, the noble globe itself only a dot in the vast swirl of matter and time, in the great physics of it all Frank pondered, the same which pounds and baffles each of us under a clear night sky. And there, looking up, perhaps I am not alone making a quiet vow to hold more tightly to good friendship and love before sleeping Frank’s sleep.
Tom Higgins"
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ncrockclimber
climber
NC
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Jul 15, 2011 - 10:24pm PT
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The stillness within stillness is not the true stillness; the true stillness is within motion.
Lao-Tsu
Less and less do you need to force things, until finally you arrive at non-action. When nothing is done, nothing is left undone.
Lao-Tsu
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom"
The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
There is only one success; to be able to spend your life in your own way.
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MH2
climber
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Jul 15, 2011 - 10:29pm PT
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Hops, hops, and more hops.
The Energizer Bunny
in an interview with Barbara Walters
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Anastasia
climber
hanging from an ice pick and missing my mama.
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Jul 15, 2011 - 10:34pm PT
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It was so cold that even the squirrels couldn't keep their nuts warm. (Marine Corps veteran R. Lee Ermey)
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Jul 16, 2011 - 03:01pm PT
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Cynic
"an idealist whose rose-colored glasses have been removed, snapped in two and stomped into the ground, immediately improving his vision."
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Jul 16, 2011 - 05:50pm PT
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hey there, say all.... awwww, shucks, i got a bunch of little favorite quotes, but most won't make much sense to many-a-folk.... :)
here's one, from a novel by a nifty ol' writer, that i know of:
Anquish now sought to trip-him-up and lay-him-low, and near as fast as a broken boot heel!
:) *need a hint? ;)
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LongAgo
Trad climber
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Jul 17, 2011 - 02:18am PT
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From a recent read, Lacuna, Barbara Kingsolver:
"The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know." I might add, even or especially with respect to ourselves.
"Lies are infinite in number and the truth so small and singular." Again, even to ourselves.
Tom Higgins
LongAgo
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davidji
Social climber
CA
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The winds of grace are always blowing, but we have to raise our sails. -- Sri Ramakrishna
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FRUMY
Trad climber
SHERMAN OAKS,CA
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"I GOT AMOUTH RIGHT?"
Weld_it.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Aug 14, 2011 - 10:17am PT
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Anderl Heckmair:
"I consider mountain climbing an absolutely egocentric activity; I could therefore never understand why one would want to set up rules for it. "In the mountains, freedom rules" is an old poacher's saying. Whether and how I use artificial means is my business. To climb in the cleanest and smoothest way possible - that was my desire. How others climb is their business, and nobody else has the right to interfere. Most people abide by rules because they want to be accepted. I was only truly content when I succeeded in completing a climb the way I had envisioned it. Naturally, there is satisfaction when a climb is acclaimed by the experts, but basically, this was not as important to me as the recognition by my friends."
Lynn Hill:
"It goes boys"
Toni Kurz:
"Ich kann nicht mehr"
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 20, 2011 - 04:42pm PT
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Things are to be used and people are to be loved, but the problem in today's world is people are being used and things are being loved.
anon
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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Aug 20, 2011 - 05:24pm PT
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"My once-keen analytical mind has become so dulled by endless hours of baking in the hot sun, thrashing about in tight chimneys, pulling at impossibly heavy loads.... so that now my mental state is comparable to that of a Peruvian Indian, well stoked on coca leaves..." — Warren Harding (1925-2002), Reflections on a broken down climber.
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o-man
Social climber
Paia,Maui,HI
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Aug 20, 2011 - 07:10pm PT
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Eighth Tao
The highest good is like water.
Water gives life to the ten thousand things and does not strive.
It flows in places that men reject and is like the Tao.
In dwelling, be close to the land.
In meditation, go deep into the heart.
In dealing with others, be gentle and kind.
In speech, be true.
In ruling, be just.
In business, be competent.
In action, watch the timing.
No fight: No blame.
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hobo_dan
Social climber
Minnesota
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Aug 28, 2011 - 10:21am PT
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things sure have changed since we got kicked out of high school
The ramones
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johnboy
Trad climber
Can't get here from there
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Aug 28, 2011 - 10:39pm PT
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Bud Lite? Must be a small party.
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Vosser
Trad climber
reno, NV
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Aug 28, 2011 - 11:45pm PT
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Life is hard! Especially when your a pussy.
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Aug 29, 2011 - 02:16am PT
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"I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life."
Gandhi
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Vegasclimber
Trad climber
Las Vegas, NV.
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Aug 29, 2011 - 02:39am PT
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My grandfather;
"If you always want to be employed, find the job that no one else wants to do, and do it better then everyone else."
Little did I know at the time that would translate into many years of packing parachutes for a living...
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Sep 18, 2011 - 12:23pm PT
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Anniversaries are pretty much just a way of bragging to the world that someone can put up with your sh#t for an extended period of time.
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Bldrjac
Ice climber
Boulder
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Sep 18, 2011 - 12:53pm PT
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"You'll never find enlightenment on a full stomach."
Doug Scott's reply to Greg Child when, during a FA of Shivling's East Pillar, they were running very low on food and fuel. Greg asked Doug what they would do when they totally ran out of food, fuel and were still stuck in the storm they were presently in............
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H
Mountain climber
there and back again
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Sep 18, 2011 - 08:35pm PT
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These are my own:
"one way of ruining a miracle is to try to figure it out"
"It is the risks we take in life which allows us to truly live, but it is the memories, not the risks, we choose to remember which can cripple or enhance the joys of the future"
"There is a little bit of "them" in all of us"
"Justifing your actions does not make them right"
This is my dads:
"Don't sweat the small stuff"
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Damn this looks high
Trad climber
Temecula, CA
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Sep 18, 2011 - 10:06pm PT
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Adventures not possessions.
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
-A community of hairless apes
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Sep 18, 2011 - 11:56pm PT
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"The difference between the right word and almost the right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug."
Twain
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ruppell
climber
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Sep 18, 2011 - 11:59pm PT
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To the victors goes the spoils
NOT TWAIN
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Captain...or Skully
climber
Where are you bound?
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Sep 19, 2011 - 12:50am PT
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"That jam's lousy, but at least it's awkward." ~ Donini
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steve shea
climber
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Sep 19, 2011 - 09:03am PT
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"It's so crowded, nobody goes anymore" Yogi Bera
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
-A community of hairless apes
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Sep 19, 2011 - 12:38pm PT
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The pen is mightier than the sword... OK, you take the pen and I'll take the sword.
Excellent.
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Sep 19, 2011 - 12:43pm PT
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Not a tear bedims the eye
that time and patience will not dry.
-Bret Harte
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tom Carter
Social climber
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Sep 20, 2011 - 01:19am PT
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"If ya wanna quite drinking coffee.....just keep drinking it"!
Dave Bircheff at the Grill in Tuolumne 1973.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Sep 20, 2011 - 02:06am PT
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"Hold my beer, watch this..."
Bubba
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Gary
climber
Desolation Row, Calif.
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Sep 28, 2011 - 11:47pm PT
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We carry a new world here, in our hearts. That world is growing this minute.
Buenaventura Durruti
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Dr.Sprock
Boulder climber
I'm James Brown, Bi-atch!
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Sep 28, 2011 - 11:53pm PT
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"you have to watch how you get"
very true philosphy from a book by william heat leats moon called blue highways,
anybody read it?
Blue Highways is an autobiographical book by William Least Heat-Moon, born William Trogdon.
In 1978, after separating from his wife and losing his job as a teacher, Moon, 38 at the time, decided to take an extended road trip around the United States, sticking to only the "Blue Highways." Heat-Moon had coined the term to refer to small, forgotten, out of the way roads connecting rural America (which were drawn in blue on the old style Rand McNally road atlas).
He outfits a green van with a bunk, a camping stove, a portable toilet and a copy of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass and John Neihardt's Black Elk Speaks. Referring to the Native American resurrection ritual, he christens the van "Ghost Dancing," and embarks on a three month soul-searching tour of the United States, wandering from small town to small town, often just because they have interesting names. The book chronicles the 13,000 mile journey and the people he meets along the way, as he steers clear of cities and interstates, avoiding fast food and exploring local American culture.
Well-researched and intriguing stories and historical facts are included about each area visited, as well as verbatim conversations with characters such as a born-again Christian hitchhiker, a teenage runaway, a boat builder, an Appalachian log cabin restorer, a Nevada prostitute, fishermen, a Hopi Native American medical student, owners of western saloons and remote country stores, a maple syrup farmer, and Chesapeake Bay island dwellers.
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dogtown
Trad climber
JackAssVille, Wyoming
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It’s hard to bitch but sometimes I still do, Life’s been good to me so far.
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Delhi Dog
climber
Good Question...
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"Everything in moderation...including moderation.
-Delhi Dog
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
-A community of hairless apes
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"When the music's over, turn out the lights."
a fine biotrope to live by
a fine epitaph, too (think I'll use it if I have a chance)
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WBraun
climber
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Asshole of the century quote:
Henry Kissinger -- "Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy."
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luggi
Trad climber
from the backseat of Jake& Elwood Blues car
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"If you don't know what it is....throw a rock at it"
Grandpa
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Love Betty White!
"If I had a d*ck, this is where I would tell you to suck it"
The movie Lake Placid, talking to the sheriff.
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hooblie
climber
from where the anecdotes roam
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"we're here to put a dent in the universe" -steve jobs
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 19, 2011 - 09:19am PT
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Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Schopenhauer
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MikeL
climber
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Oct 19, 2011 - 10:15am PT
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Climbers' quotes, some romantic, others ironic.
• What can this rock give you?. . . . Nothing. . . . and what will you hold in your hands on the Summit? I can tell you now: nothing. It’s all lunacy. (Reinhard Karl)
• [Mountaineering is] ‘the conquest of the useless’ (Lionel Terray)
• Many sages have said that a creative life requires . . . . [an] arena where men and women have risked all (John Long).
• I came to find my own mediocrity and that of the world intolerable. I recognized that I . . . was degenerate. . . . I realized that I was not a man in the full sense of the word, . . . and the realization was so bitter that I often wept. . . . If I undertook The Shroud, it was precisely for that reason: to submit myself and my life to God’s purpose . . . . it was, of course, a wholly egotistical act (Ivan Ghirardini).
• I was strong. I could have done anything. I seethed with desire. Believing in my self-importance, I stroked and blessed my ego. Ambition was so precious. I worshipped it and stole for it. I rationalized every evil thing I ever did by weighing it against my ambition. I wanted to be a god without the boredom of sainthood (Mark Twight).
• I used to be afraid that I would die young but after living for a while I got scared that I wouldn’t (Mark Twight).
• I find I want this loss of control. I want to feel very small in very deep water. I don’t want to know what I’m doing, but to learn it (Peter Croft).
• Deprivation [Mt. Hunter, Alaska] taught me about the existence of this mystic path in the mountains . . . . How can I be tired while climbing on the mountain when I have become the mountain? I have searched within myself through both passive and active meditation, for the tools to open this ‘door’ whenever I will it. I still search (Mark Twight).
• The whole notion of ‘deep play’—the gambling theory of extreme risk taking when the gambler stands to lose far more than he could ever possibly win—may well be an apt description of some levels of climbing, but playing the game in reality now seemed a conceited and ridiculous enterprise (Joe Simpson).
• When we undeniably see that we create our own misery, we stop. The force generated by this insight changes anyone. Even Mark. His internal struggles for personal freedom, outwardly manifested through his climbing, eventually transformed Dr. Doom into Dr. Om. (Brian Eno about Mark Twight)
• After my ascent, and typical of other climbers before me, the accomplishment and rite of passage were partly why I could bow out of the central camp scene [a climber’s camp and hangout in Yosemite Valley] and its infinite loop of harder and harder climbing . . . . Perhaps thus enlightened, I turned to new thoughts and still deeper ways of looking at my life, as I grew older (Peter Haan).
• My whole psychology believed it was right to cultivate risks to achieve success. This led me to take terrible chances. Because I was soloing, in my self-centered world I could talk myself into it. Without being conscious of it, I behaved as if summits were worth dying for. I don’t buy that anymore. (Joe Beyer)
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Oct 19, 2011 - 10:20am PT
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Funny thing about Twight, he developed the "Dr. Doom" persona but never learned how to rock climb.
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badcom
Gym climber
Ewing, NJ
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Oct 19, 2011 - 12:36pm PT
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"Of every one hundred men they send me, ten should not be here. Eighty are nothing but targets. Nine are real fighters, they make the battle. Ah, but the one, he is a warrior, and he will bring the others back"
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 22, 2011 - 02:56am PT
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Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Oct 22, 2011 - 10:18am PT
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(Brian Eno about Mark Twight Really? Brian Eno?
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
-A community of hairless apes
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Oct 22, 2011 - 10:41am PT
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Thanks again, RM, I'll take it (once again, again) to heart. ;)
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Social climber
Retired to Appalachia
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Oct 22, 2011 - 10:58am PT
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"I may be wrong, but I'm never in doubt."
-unknown
"Everything in moderation, including moderation."
-me
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
-A community of hairless apes
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Oct 23, 2011 - 11:52am PT
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re: favorite (ludicrous) quotes
"The President has been a failure when it comes to foreign policy."
Michele Bachmann, U.S Republican Presidential Laughingstock (2011)
Face the Nation, 23 oct 2011
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hooblie
climber
from where the anecdotes roam
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Oct 23, 2011 - 02:21pm PT
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"it never dawned on me till the first day" - yup, that's the difference
between high flying conceptualization and ground truthing
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
-A community of hairless apes
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Oct 24, 2011 - 01:21pm PT
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"We are the Animal Kingdom's way of knowing its evolved drives and feelings reflected in human terms; and because we speak – of expressing this reflection in words. In words."
a rockclimbing evolutionist, 1996
This might even be better:
"We are the cat's way or the dog's way or the chimp's way or the honey badger's way or the sea lion's way or the dolphin's way of knowing its evolved drives and feelings reflected in human terms; and because we speak – of expressing this reflection in words. In words." HFCS
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Oct 27, 2011 - 03:44pm PT
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"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room." (President Merkin Muffley (Dr Strangelove))
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noone
Trad climber
mountain tornado alley
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Oct 28, 2011 - 03:50pm PT
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From "Horrible Bosses"
"I'm a drag racer"
"In a Prius?"
"I don't win a lot"
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DanaB
climber
CT
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Oct 28, 2011 - 04:56pm PT
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"Those are my principles. And if you don't like them, I have others."
"No, we have an agreement. The flies don't practice law, and I don't walk on the ceiling."
Groucho Marx.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Oct 28, 2011 - 05:03pm PT
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"People ask me why I drink so much. It’s because of a morbid fear of dehydration."
"I don't know why they call me working-class. As far as I know I'v never worked a day in my life."
"There are two kinds of climbers... smart ones and dead ones."
Thatchers secretary: "Mr Whillans, Mr Whillans. Your flies are undone”,
Don: ”Tha need not have worried, yer know. Dead birds never fall out the bleedin’ nest!”
— Don Whillans
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Oct 28, 2011 - 06:17pm PT
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Nancy Astor was a native Virginian who became Britain’s first woman member of the House of Commons. In the 1930’s she headed a clique in the House of Commons that found something to admire in Hitler’s Germany. Churchill described an Astorite as an appeaser "who feeds the crocodile hoping that it will eat him last." One time shortly thereafter, Churchill found himself at Cliveden, the Astor mansion.
After dinner Lady Astor presided over the pouring of coffee. When Churchill came by, she glared and said. "Winston, if I were your wife, I’d put poison in your coffee." "Nancy," Churchill replied to the acid-tongued woman, "if I were your husband, I’d drink it."
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pud
climber
Sportbikeville & Yucca brevifolia
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Oct 28, 2011 - 07:15pm PT
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Yeah, it's a total sandbag -Todd Gordon
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Hilt
Social climber
Utah
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Oct 28, 2011 - 07:18pm PT
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What lies build, fools believe. Don't play with fools.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Oct 29, 2011 - 04:46am PT
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"Assuming that one wants to praise at all, there’s a refined and at the same time noble self-control which always gives praise only where one does not agree:—in other cases one would be really praising oneself, something that contradicts good taste—naturally, a self-control which provides a good opportunity and provocation for one to be constantly misunderstood. In order to permit oneself this real luxury of taste and morality, one must not live among spiritual fools, but rather among people whose misunderstandings and false ideas are still amusing for their sophistication—or one will have to pay dearly for it!—“He is praising me: thus, he admits I’m right”—this asinine conclusion ruins half of life for us hermits, for it brings the asses into our neighbourhood and our friendship."
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Trusty Rusty
Social climber
Tahoe area
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Oct 29, 2011 - 04:51am PT
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"Jesus built my car, its a love affair"
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FRUMY
Trad climber
SHERMAN OAKS,CA
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Nov 15, 2011 - 08:15pm PT
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"Be thankful we don't get all the government we pay for."
WILL ROGERS
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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Nov 15, 2011 - 08:31pm PT
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My Maserati does 185.
I lost my license, now I don't drive.
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divad
Trad climber
wmass
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Nov 15, 2011 - 09:22pm PT
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I know something about everything.
I know everything about nothing.
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hellroaring
Trad climber
San Francisco
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Nov 15, 2011 - 09:28pm PT
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Saw this written on a bathroom wall:
"it's hard to imagine what you're missing
when you're missing your imagination"
(the circle A anarchy symbol drawn right beneath)
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FRUMY
Trad climber
SHERMAN OAKS,CA
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Nov 16, 2011 - 11:29am PT
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"A fool and his money are soon elected."
Will Rogers
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Social climber
Retired to Appalachia
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Nov 16, 2011 - 12:05pm PT
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"Everything in moderation -- including moderation."
-Sierra Ledge Rat
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Social climber
Retired to Appalachia
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Nov 16, 2011 - 12:06pm PT
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"I may be wrong, but I'm never in doubt."
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
-A community of hairless apes
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"If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?"
Chuck Palahniuk, novelist
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Dave Davis
Social climber
Seattle, WA
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Dec 11, 2011 - 01:06am PT
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"work is the curse of the drinking class"
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ruppell
climber
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Dec 11, 2011 - 02:33am PT
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Three things I know to be tru
Is four things halve to be false
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Dec 11, 2011 - 02:38am PT
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"I was only wrong once, and that's when I thought I was wrong."
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Srbphoto
climber
Kennewick wa
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Jan 21, 2012 - 06:12pm PT
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"all rich people buy politicians, they aren't very expensive"
Jim Cramer
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Beautiful_Corn
Trad climber
Brooklyn Park, MD
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Jan 31, 2012 - 08:38am PT
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Found in a bathroom stall:
"She offered her honor
so I honored her offer
and all night long
I was on her and off her."
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Leggs
Sport climber
Home Sweet Home, Tucson AZ
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Jan 31, 2012 - 08:58am PT
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"If a woman tells you she's twenty and looks sixteen, she's twelve. If she tells you she's twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she's damn near forty"
Chris Rock
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Jan 31, 2012 - 09:55am PT
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"Mexican culture has a deep conviction that nothing can be proven except that it be made to bleed. Virgins, bulls, men. Ultimately God himself."
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Jan 31, 2012 - 11:38am PT
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A slogan for a new age: "Clean up the world. Exterminate all the bolts"
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jan 31, 2012 - 11:39am PT
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"Not guilty, yer honour!"
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plund
Social climber
OD, MN
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Jan 31, 2012 - 01:36pm PT
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If you tell the truth, you never have to remember your story -- my Pops
I f'in swear too much -- my buddy Matt
That looks like a dick, only smaller -- one of my "friends", to me, whilst side-by-side @ the urinals(I think during a softball tourney)
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splitter
Trad climber
Hodad surfing the galactic plane
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Feb 20, 2012 - 03:43pm PT
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"John Wayne didn't wear lycra!" Ron Kauk
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divad
Trad climber
wmass
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Feb 20, 2012 - 05:01pm PT
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Don't ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies
Lynyrd Skynyrd
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cintune
climber
Midvale School for the Gifted
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Feb 20, 2012 - 05:15pm PT
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"Legitimacy is just an existential state defined by whoever you're dealing with. Unless you define it for them first."
Nans Ludwig
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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Feb 20, 2012 - 05:19pm PT
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Also in a bathroom stall, I guess adopted from an old protest quip:
Split beaver, not atoms.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Feb 27, 2012 - 04:16pm PT
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"Climbing is not a battle with the elements, nor against the law of gravity. It's a battle against oneself.", Walter Bonatti.
"You have to train your ropes better. Ropes are like dogs. Think consistent reinforcement of good behavior. New ropes need a lot of work. My rope is usuallys well behaved. However, Emily's rope is always getting itself tied up in knots. I think she neglected it when it was young." — Sue Hopkins.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Feb 27, 2012 - 04:17pm PT
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"Climbers have no sense of smell." — Conrad Anker's mother.
"I wouldn't go there if I were you. They steal from the store and they smell and they wear rags and even piss right outside their tents. I tell you, it's like a leper colony, that place." — Yosemite Lodge bellman trying to dissuade a girl from visiting Camp 4, 1962.
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ImplicitD
Trad climber
Boise
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Feb 27, 2012 - 04:48pm PT
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All generalizations are false, including this one. Twain
There are old climbers and bold climbers but no old bold climbers.
When in doubt, run it out.
Cant do, then teach. Cant teach, then teach the teachers.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Feb 27, 2012 - 05:10pm PT
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Not bad!
"I couldn't catch a ball or any of that stuff. I could do only what required brute stupidity." — Warren Harding (1925-2002).
Ever tried
ever failed
try again
fail better...
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Feb 28, 2012 - 02:18am PT
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"he bowls ... overhand"
-from a dos equis commercial
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Srbphoto
climber
Kennewick wa
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Feb 28, 2012 - 09:38am PT
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I thought they were fairy guns
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
-A race of corn eaters
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Mar 19, 2012 - 12:38am PT
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"There is no way of knowing where the next discovery will come from, what dream of the mind's eye will remake the world. These dreams begin as impossibilities."
Carl Sagan, Cosmos
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Jun 15, 2012 - 02:20pm PT
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"if you're not at the table, you're on the menu"
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Gary
climber
"My god - it's full of stars!"
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Jun 15, 2012 - 05:38pm PT
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All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
T E Lawrence
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ELM !
climber
Near Boston
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Jun 15, 2012 - 08:13pm PT
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"don't get into a pissing match with a Skunk"
Dad
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WBraun
climber
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Jun 15, 2012 - 08:16pm PT
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Americans are so stupid they drive their cars to go somewhere to walk or hike.
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laughingman
Mountain climber
Seattle WA
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Jun 15, 2012 - 08:26pm PT
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"one 'dies of thirst just when the palm trees have appeared on the horizon."
The Alchemist
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
merced, california
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Jun 15, 2012 - 08:31pm PT
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Rocks make no compromise for sex....rock climbing is not like some sports, where it is made easier for women; or sports like, say, softball, which is only baseball for soft people. On a rock, everything is equal.--Beverly Johnson
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
merced, california
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Jun 15, 2012 - 09:02pm PT
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Prefatory note to The Dangerous Book for Boys, C. & H. Iggulden
"Don't worry about genius and don't worry about not being clever. Trust rather to hard work, perseverance, and determination. The best motto for a long march is 'Don't grumble. Plug on.'
"You hold you future in your own hands. Never waver in this belief. Don't swagger. The boy who swaggers--like the man who swaggers--has little else that he can do. He is a cheap-Jack crying his own paltry wares. It is the empty tin that rattles most. Be honest. Be loyal. Be kind. Remember that the hardest thing to acquire is the faculty of being unselfish. As a quality it is one of the finest attributes of manliness.
"Love the sea, the ringing beach and the open downs.
"Keep clean, body and mind.'"
Sir Frederick Treves, Bart, KCVO, CB, Sergeant in Ordinary to HM the King, Surgeon in Ordinary to HRH Prince of Wales, written at 6 Wimpole Street, Cavendish Square, London, on September 2, 1903, on the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Boy's Own Paper
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DanaB
climber
CT
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Jun 15, 2012 - 10:37pm PT
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There's always free cheese in a mouse trap.
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
-A race of corn eaters
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Jun 15, 2012 - 10:44pm PT
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Love many, trust few, do harm to none.
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Capt.
climber
some eastside hovel
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Jun 15, 2012 - 11:38pm PT
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"He has a trophy wife...Obviously it wasn't first place"
Larry the cable guy
"She was convulsing like an epileptic at a strobe light convention"
Alec Baldwin
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Jun 16, 2012 - 12:06am PT
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"refugees in winter dress/skating home on thin ice/from the Apocalypse."
Verandah Porche, describing her contemporaries in the LNS
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Srbphoto
climber
Kennewick wa
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Jun 23, 2012 - 12:34pm PT
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Money makes the monkey dance
"Money makes the monkey dance," Angel Perales told an FBI informant, according to court documents.
Perales, Mayor David Silva and Councilman Osvaldo Conde (from Cudahy)were arrested Friday and charged with soliciting and accepting cash bribes totaling $17,000 to support the opening of a medical marijuana dispensary.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
merced, california
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Jun 23, 2012 - 01:26pm PT
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"Kirk is gonna be leading this climb cuz he's bad-ass."--Captain Kirk's Number Two, James :)
cool vid!
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wivanoff
Trad climber
CT
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Jun 23, 2012 - 03:16pm PT
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Good judgment comes from experience.
Experience comes from bad judgment.
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Plaidman
Trad climber
South Slope of Mt. Tabor, Portland, Oregon, USA
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Jun 23, 2012 - 07:35pm PT
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Why is patience a virtue?
Because not many people have it!
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2 l l
Sport climber
Rancho Verga, CA
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Jun 23, 2012 - 08:09pm PT
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I've Been Listening to my Gut since I Was 14 Years Old, and Frankly Speaking, I've Come to the Conclusion That My Gut Has Sh#t for Brains. ~ Nick Hornby
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Jun 23, 2012 - 08:23pm PT
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"I guess I'm not the man she was looking for
I'm just the man she found"
Dave Edmunds
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 24, 2012 - 01:13am PT
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“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” - Plato
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Jun 26, 2012 - 05:43pm PT
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Oscar Wilde
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 27, 2012 - 09:49pm PT
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"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike, rather than those who think differently." Nietzsche
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FRUMY
Trad climber
SHERMAN OAKS,CA
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Jun 29, 2012 - 06:53pm PT
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THAT MAN WILL FIGHT US EVERY DAY & EVERY HOUR TILL THE END OF THE WAR.
General Longstreet -- speaking of General U. S. Grant.
Spoken to southern officers (on the day Grant was given the army of the Potomac) who still thought they might win the war.
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Jun 29, 2012 - 09:03pm PT
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"Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force.
Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."
- Geo. Washington
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Don Paul
Big Wall climber
Colombia, South America
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Jun 30, 2012 - 03:31pm PT
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Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
... In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
Invictus, William Ernest Henley, 1875
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
merced, california
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Jun 30, 2012 - 03:46pm PT
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"Yer still gonna die!!!"
---Most of us at one time or another.
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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Jul 10, 2012 - 04:37pm PT
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Stolen from another:
Some people think about all the great things they could have done and feel bad.
I think about all the bad things I could have done and feel great.
Tyrus Bachar
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Gary
climber
"My god - it's full of stars!"
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Jul 10, 2012 - 06:40pm PT
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There are only two roads, victory for the working class, freedom, or victory for the fascists which means tyranny. Both combatants know what's in store for the loser.
Buenaventura Durruti
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PAUL SOUZA
Trad climber
Central Valley, CA
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Jul 10, 2012 - 08:10pm PT
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"Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand." - Mark Twain
"What is to give light, must endure burning" - Dr. Viktor Frankl
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DanaB
climber
CT
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Jul 16, 2012 - 10:12pm PT
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"It was not a bomb. It was an explosive device."
Mayor Wilson Goode of Phialdelphia, after a bomb was dropped on the MOVE headquarters in West Philadelphia, 1985. Eleven dead, over 60 homes burned to the ground.
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paranoid-android
climber
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Jul 16, 2012 - 10:22pm PT
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Attitude Determines Altitude
Maintain Attitude, Maintain Altitude
Good Attitude Gains Great Altitude
~yours truly
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kennyt
climber
Woodfords,California
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Jul 16, 2012 - 10:25pm PT
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" you can change it but it's gonna be different"
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The Dude
climber
Truckee, CA
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Aug 30, 2012 - 04:42am PT
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"A man with a bible is more dangerous than a man with a gun"
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Aug 30, 2012 - 05:08am PT
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up is arbitrary.
friction is you bitchen with gravity.
--Norwegian
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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"You know too much about baseball to be a lawyer."--Justin Beiber in new Eastwood flick, Trouble With the Curve
"Hard work never hurt anybody--why take chances?"--Edgar Bergen
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Sep 12, 2012 - 12:59pm PT
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"In the mountaineer are bound up the poet, the painter, the thinker, the citizen; in him are a heart open to all fine feelings, a mind thirsty for all knowledge, an observer who on the mountains sees far into a thousand things around him and within him that most men do not see, and which serve as food for his mind and reveal a stimulating and illuminating line of thought to others. In him, too, there is the writer."--Edmondo de Amicis, speaking of Guido Rey specifically in the last sentence, I'm sure; and maybe, maybe giving non-writing climbers some slack in the first
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WyoRockMan
Trad climber
Flank of the Bighorns
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Sep 12, 2012 - 01:49pm PT
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"My beard has nothing to do with function or a lack of initiative. It's pure style. It says 'take note, squares. This is how it's done.'"
That popped out of my mouth one day as my boss was chiming in about a new "grooming" policy.
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Vegasclimber
Trad climber
Las Vegas, NV.
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Sep 12, 2012 - 02:13pm PT
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"You can find a thousand reasons not to lead a pitch. The trick is, to find the one reason to lead it anyways."
- Wendell Broussard
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Sep 12, 2012 - 02:21pm PT
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"Verandah Porche?"
"Verandah hell am I?"--many of us at one time or other
Yes, I'm going back thru the thread. Priceless!
"I like your threads, dude! Stylin'!"--Mtn. Project to Taco
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michaeld
Sport climber
Sacramento
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Sep 12, 2012 - 02:31pm PT
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"I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my number, so call me baby."
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Sep 12, 2012 - 05:34pm PT
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"manless climbing"--Maggie
Maggie gave us this phrase, useless as it is. :)
Climbing is climbing is climbing, indicates G. STEIN.
"Maggie's drawers" on that one, lady.
and
"There's no there there."--G. STEIN
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Synchronicity
Trad climber
British Columbia, Canada
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Sep 12, 2012 - 08:48pm PT
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"I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my number, so call me baby."
Haven't you heard its supposed to be:
"I just met you, and I am crazy, I've got your number, I'll stalk you daily"
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Don Paul
Big Wall climber
Colombia, South America
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Sep 12, 2012 - 09:03pm PT
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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure. ~ Helen Keller
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splitter
Trad climber
Hodad, surfing the galactic plane
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Sep 12, 2012 - 09:11pm PT
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"The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation." - Pearl S. Buck
edit: Don Paul - i like that HK quote, she should know, eh! Thnx
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BASE104
Social climber
An Oil Field
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Sep 12, 2012 - 09:26pm PT
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"It's storming like crazy! We gotta go get on the Route Major now!"
-Walt Shipley
We were too late. It was avalanching like crazy when we made it over there all drunk in the dark.
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splitter
Trad climber
Hodad, surfing the galactic plane
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Sep 13, 2012 - 09:42am PT
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"We will have plenty of time to reminisce once we're dead. We are all business now, ain't got no time to waste!" ~ Splitter
Hah!
Lol!
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10b4me
Ice climber
dingy room at the Happy boulders hotel
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Sep 13, 2012 - 10:35am PT
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"summit or die, either way I win"- Rob Slater
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10b4me
Ice climber
dingy room at the Happy boulders hotel
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Sep 13, 2012 - 10:40am PT
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"Its a good day to Die."
Klingon Proverb
Actually, Crazy Horse said that at Custers Last Stand
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Don Paul
Big Wall climber
Colombia, South America
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Sep 13, 2012 - 11:04am PT
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I can't believe someone is quoting Pearl S Buck. One of my favorite books is The Good Earth, full of wisdom on every page. Copied an audio version from the library, have listened to it at least 5 times now. It's such an inspiring story.
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cliffhanger
Trad climber
California
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Sep 13, 2012 - 11:21am PT
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Hoka hey! (It's a good day to die.)
Sioux warriors shouted this when going into battle.
Read: Black Elk Speaks and Lame Deer: Seeker of Visions
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Leggs
Sport climber
A true CA girl, who landed in the desert...
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Sep 13, 2012 - 11:56am PT
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“Sit, be still, and listen,
because you're drunk
and we're at
the edge of the roof.”
― Rumi
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 13, 2012 - 12:19pm PT
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'Its a good day to die.'. I thought that was Henry the V. Lol. I guess a lot of people have said it.
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The Call Of K2 Lou
climber
Squamish
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Sep 13, 2012 - 12:44pm PT
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Always been a fan of T.E. Lawrence (AKA Lawrence of Arabia):
"Those who dream by night, in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that all was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, and make it possible."
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splitter
Trad climber
Hodad, surfing the galactic plane
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Sep 13, 2012 - 12:52pm PT
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I can't believe someone is posting Pearl S. Buck.
That be me!
What an incredible woman! Over fifty novels. And numerous other phenomenal accomplishments! I would be content to have accomplished 1% of what she did! She won the Pulitzer Prize that year (1932) for "The Good Earth"
"Inspiring" indeed!
Worth repeating!
"The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation!" ~ Pearl S. Buck
edit: btw, She was the living embodiment of that quote! Just check out her life & accomplishments on wiki for an example! Her Chinese name was Sai Zhenzhu (beautiful name).
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Sep 13, 2012 - 02:09pm PT
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"Det här är mina skogar, fast jag äger dom inte".
"Jag följer fågelstigarna"
Nitahå-Jussi.
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WyoRockMan
Trad climber
Flank of the Bighorns
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Sep 13, 2012 - 02:13pm PT
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"A life without cause is a life without effect." - Barbarella
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splitter
Trad climber
Hodad, surfing the galactic plane
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Sep 13, 2012 - 02:50pm PT
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"He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not." ~ Isaiah
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Gary
Social climber
Monza by the streetlight
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Sep 13, 2012 - 02:55pm PT
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No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man. -- Heraclitus
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Sep 13, 2012 - 03:03pm PT
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Hej, Marlow, jag også följer fågelstigarna.
Could you introduce me to Jussi?
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 13, 2012 - 03:16pm PT
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"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!". Upton Sinclair
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splitter
Trad climber
Hodad, surfing the galactic plane
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Sep 13, 2012 - 04:09pm PT
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this one sounded like it was well worth investigating, so i gave it my best shot...
"At either end of the social spectrum lies a leisure class." ~ Eric Beck
edit: i dropped this quote on one of my psych professors during class one day, and she responded, "NO THERE IS NOT"! So I ask her, "Have ya ever been to Camp Four? lol
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Sep 13, 2012 - 04:19pm PT
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Reilly
Nitahå-Jussi was said to be the last wanderer at Finnskogen. He knew the woods well and took a job where he found it, when he needed it. He lived and worked for a while in the US, but returned to Sweden to take over the farm after his father's death. Someone had illegally taken over the farm and years of juridical trouble started. In the film "Finnskog and trollskap" we are following Jussi. The film made him "famous", as did the book that was written about him. The book carried his own name. He was still active as an old man - as you see from the picture. The film "Finnskog and trollskap" has finally reached dvd and is now to be bought.
In the film I can also see my great grandfather Lauritz who was among the men who waited at the border for the Swedes in 1905. He was a person worth his own film. A lot of stories are told about him.
Et annet sitat fra Jussi er at "Det er et knep ved alt" - med andre ord alt har sin løsning bare du finner knepet - så også i klatringen.... Lol...
I will check out Crusoe of Lonesome Lake by Leland Stowe.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Sep 13, 2012 - 04:27pm PT
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Marlow, takk. You would love Crusoe of Lonesome Lake by Leland Stowe.
I just checked Amazon and there are only a few available at big bucks.
A pity as it deserves a re-issue. I guess I should take care of my copy.
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nutjob
Gym climber
Berkeley, CA
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Sep 13, 2012 - 04:29pm PT
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Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose
(Kris Kristofferson & Fred Foster, but Janis Joplin sang it best)
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Gary
Social climber
Monza by the streetlight
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Sep 13, 2012 - 05:09pm PT
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There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane, he had to fly them. If he flew them, he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to, he was sane and had to. Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle.
"That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed.
"It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed.
"They're trying to kill me," Yossarian told him calmly.
"No one's trying to kill you," Clevinger cried.
"Then why are they shooting at me?" Yossarian asked.
"They're shooting at everyone," Clevinger answered. "They're trying to kill everyone."
"And what difference does that make?"
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Sep 13, 2012 - 05:47pm PT
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Yo Nutjob,
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose
(Kris Kristofferson & Fred Foster, but Janis Joplin sang it best)
Funny you mention that one. The band that played for our Russian language school 'graduation' party in Leningrad in 1973, had been banned from performing for soviet audiences for singing that very lyric!!
Seemed strange then, and makes no more sense to me now.....
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Don Paul
Big Wall climber
Colombia, South America
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Sep 13, 2012 - 06:35pm PT
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Rumi .... who is that guy, anyway? One of the inventors of facebook? If Mark Zuckerberg isnt paying him, he should be.
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rbolton
Social climber
The home for...
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Sep 13, 2012 - 06:44pm PT
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"So it goes..."
Kurt Vonnegut
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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Sep 13, 2012 - 07:35pm PT
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"It seemed like a good idea at the time."
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Sep 14, 2012 - 04:41pm PT
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"A house built on granite and strong foundations, not even the onslaught of pouring rain, gushing torrents, and strong winds will be able to pull down.
Some people have written the story of my life representing it as truth, what in fact derives from ignorance, error, or envy; but they cannot shake the truth from its place, even if they attempt to make others believe it."
Tafari Makonnen
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Sep 14, 2012 - 08:54pm PT
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"There are only two stories in all of literature-a man takes a jouney,
a stranger comes to town." - Tolstoi
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Sep 14, 2012 - 09:42pm PT
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"the essence of first-hand experience is our most immediate index when we ask one of life's hardest questions: What can I honestly know?"--Mike Borghoff, Moments of Crisis
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ruppell
climber
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Sep 14, 2012 - 11:29pm PT
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Since there seems to be some Vonnegut fans here:
If I were a younger man, I would write a history of human stupidity; and I would climb to the top of Mount McCabe and lie down on my back with my history for a pillow; and I would take from the ground some of the blue-white poison that makes statues of men; and I would make a statue of myself, lying on my back, grinning horribly, and thumbing my nose at You Know Who.
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climbski2
Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
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Sep 14, 2012 - 11:42pm PT
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You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? And if you greet only your own people, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
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ruppell
climber
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Sep 15, 2012 - 12:06am PT
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Sully
A dig at I Sit and Look Out? Kurt sure liked amber
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber.
Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse V
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nutjob
Gym climber
Berkeley, CA
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Sep 18, 2012 - 05:01pm PT
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There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.
I thought this was pretty funny :)
I would not personally throw out Atlas Shrugged from the childhood reading list. Rather I think it should be a mandatory high school read with lots of directed discussion and debate to explore concepts of what government should be, the balance of personal freedom and responsibility, the morality of creating something of value, choosing the lesser evil when prioritizing how a system can be defended against exploiters (e.g. freeloaders at either end of the financial spectrum), the selfish benefits of social consciousness and societal contribution as they relate to our personal well-being, etc.
I think there is a rich world of realities to be teased out of these messy issues, as endlessly featured as a graphic representation of a mandelbrot set. Heavy-handed acceptance or rejection of the world presented by Ayn Rand seem to me equally flawed. Perhaps the biggest genius of her work, whether intended or not, is the degree to which it facilitates exploration of central issues in our lives and society that don't seem to be sufficiently explored in our schools or discussed in our media.
Instead we get this dumbed down dichotomy of "Atlas Shrugged is great!" or "That's a lame fairy tale for capitalist pigs!" and a great learning lesson and opportunity for all to come together is missed.
But the quote above is still funny.
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paul roehl
Boulder climber
california
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Sep 18, 2012 - 07:11pm PT
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A "clear word" and a benevolent, pointing out the better course, seems powerless today; world events pass all such over with brutal disregard. But let us hold fast to the anti-diabolic faith, that mankind has after all a “keen learning,” and that words born of one’s own striving may do it good and not perish from its heart.
— Thomas Mann
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Sep 18, 2012 - 09:50pm PT
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"I spent most of my money and women and whiskey; the rest, I just wasted."
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
-A race of corn eaters
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Sep 19, 2012 - 03:17pm PT
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Sam Harris,
"The freedom to think out loud on certain topics, without fear of being hounded into hiding or killed, has already been lost. And the only forces on earth that can recover it are strong, secular governments that will face down charges of blasphemy with scorn. No apologies necessary. Muslims must learn that if they make belligerent and fanatical claims upon the tolerance of free societies, they will meet the limits of that tolerance."
http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/on-the-freedom-to-offend-an-imaginary-god
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10b4me
Ice climber
dingy room at the Happy boulders hotel
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Sep 19, 2012 - 03:33pm PT
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if you're not living on the edge, you're taking up to much space-anon
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Sep 24, 2012 - 12:09pm PT
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"Welcome to the Cote d'Azur. The work is done, the money is made, it's all free play time now."--If Wishes Were Horses, Francine Pascal
"As for the [French] Yellow Pages, even the French can't figure them out."
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 16, 2012 - 02:32pm 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. (Einstein)
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scuffy b
climber
heading slowly NNW
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Oct 16, 2012 - 02:50pm PT
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There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others.
Michel de Montaigne
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Oct 16, 2012 - 03:22pm PT
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Slack...dipsh#t.--Ron Kauk to Werner
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 15, 2012 - 11:27am PT
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'It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.'
Aristotle
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J.Haze
Sport climber
Ohio
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Nov 15, 2012 - 12:59pm PT
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Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. - Helen Keller
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splitter
Trad climber
Cali Hodad, surfing the galactic plane
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Nov 15, 2012 - 01:10pm PT
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speaking of ^^ HK, here is my favorite quote of hers ...
"I always knew He was there, but I didn't know His name." ~ Helen Keller
Priceless!
edit: HK was blind and deaf (i know, pc is 'hearing impaired') and she was responding to a braille teachers (she learned braille later on) sharing the Gospel message with her!
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Nov 15, 2012 - 03:55pm PT
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"John Gummer is the biggest shitbag I have ever met"
The word shitbag was created after Norwegian minister Torbjørn Berntsen, the lip from Grorud, had told the English press that the English minister of the environment John Gummer was a "drittsekk". The Norwegian word "drittsekk" was translated to shitbag.
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FRUMY
Trad climber
SHERMAN OAKS,CA
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Nov 15, 2012 - 05:04pm PT
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" When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are going to kill him again. "
MIKE TYSON
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DanaB
climber
CT
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Nov 15, 2012 - 06:20pm PT
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If I died with money in the bank, I would consider myself a failure.
Errol Flynn
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labrat
Trad climber
Nevada City, CA
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Nov 15, 2012 - 06:22pm PT
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The good thing about science is that it's true even if people don't believe in it.
No idea who said it first but would like to know.
Erik
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MissJ
Social climber
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Nov 15, 2012 - 09:06pm PT
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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Mark Twain
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 21, 2012 - 11:13am PT
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Leonard Cohen:
Ring the bells that still can ring....forget your perfect offering -
there is a crack in everything....that's how the light gets in.
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ruppell
climber
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Nov 21, 2012 - 12:21pm PT
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“I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.”
James Joyce
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Nov 21, 2012 - 02:07pm PT
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Never up, never in.--a golfer's take on the Playboy Philosophy
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Fossil climber
Trad climber
Atlin, B. C.
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Back when I was starting the new Yosemite X-C school, I tried to hire some Norwegian students from U of Cal. at Berkeley as weekend instructors to work with Ned Gillette and Jim Speck. I couldn’t find anyone else available in CA with that skill. But a stubborn Customs/Immigration bureaucrat blocked us for a time, insisting that a downhill ski instructor was a ski instructor, and there were plenty of those. I finally won after multiple frustrating trips to SF, but his attitude validated two sayings:
1. A bureaucrat is someone who says NO and then searches the files for a precedent (author unknown), and
2. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.... (Emerson).
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Gary
Social climber
Right outside of Delacroix
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More Helen Keller:
Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought. Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder. Strike against preparedness that means death and misery to millions of human beings. Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction. Be heroes in an army of construction.
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DanaB
climber
CT
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Jan 11, 2013 - 11:16am PT
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A senior advertising executive explaining the guiding priniciple of " bigger, more, always bigger and more" that is the mantra of his industry.
" Consumers are like roaches. You spray them and spray them, and they get immune after a while."
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Gary
Social climber
Right outside of Delacroix
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Jan 11, 2013 - 12:27pm PT
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“فما دام هناك «جزء من المجتمع يمتلك حق استثمار وسائل الإنتاج، فإن الشغيلة، أحرارا أو غير أحرار، مرغمون على أن يضيفوا إلى جانب العمل الضروري لبقائهم، عملا إضافيا لإنتاج وسائل العيش إلى مالكي وسائل الإنتاج»”
― Friedrich Engels
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o-man
Social climber
Paia,Maui,HI
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Jan 11, 2013 - 12:51pm PT
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That man is successful who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much, who has gained the respect of the intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
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Inner City
Trad climber
East Bay
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Jan 11, 2013 - 01:30pm PT
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My five year old son yesterday, responding to his 11 year old brother telling him he couldn't play baseball just yet.
"Anyone can do anything!"
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 28, 2013 - 11:38am PT
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Roy, if you had to thank God for one thing, what would that be?
"The mountains and the valleys. If there were no valley of sadness and death, we could never really appreciate the sunshine of happiness on the mountaintop."--from a 1975 interview with Roy Rogers by Joe Curreri
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Tobia
Social climber
Denial
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"Revolution is not a dinner party." - Chairman Mao
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Mar 26, 2013 - 07:30pm PT
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"Starve a stalker, feed a fever"
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Potemkin Village
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May 26, 2013 - 10:22am PT
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our own beloved Fritz,
"Sometimes, despite knowledge, and good intentions, things do go wrong."
anonymous,
"If you don't have purpose... then your purpose is to find purpose."
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covelocos
Trad climber
Nor Cal
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May 26, 2013 - 10:26am PT
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"Lets just do this till someone gets hurt" ~Overheard from one of my kids to the other
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covelocos
Trad climber
Nor Cal
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May 26, 2013 - 10:28am PT
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They're not the best at what they do, they're the ONLY ones who do what they do!" ~Bill Graham
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ydpl8s
Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
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Jun 10, 2013 - 01:10pm PT
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My dad used to say "Son, don't air your dirty laundry in public, but make SURE you don't air someone else's dirty laundry in public, that could get you killed!"
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o-man
Social climber
Paia,Maui,HI
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Jun 13, 2013 - 07:20pm PT
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"That man is successful who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much, who has gained the respect of the intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had." ~Robert Louis Stevenson
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Contraband, as defined by Wayno in Psyche Lege thread:
"...things that completely normal people use to enhance the enjoyment of their meager lives or to reduce the pain of the struggle."
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Potemkin Village
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On keeping your guard up...
(On letting your guard down...)
"Death has to win only once, but life has to win every day."
In climbing and in living.
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MisterE
climber
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If I keep a green bough in my heart
a singing bird will come
--Chinese proverb
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perswig
climber
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Sep 19, 2013 - 09:49am PT
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Still, it is proper when young to strive for gigantic perfection that doesn't make sense...
Long ago when I had had a child sickness and nobody could tell what it was or how to treat it, my mother put me outside in a bed with mosquito netting over it, and I lay there watching mountains until they made me well.
It is surprising how much our souls are alike, at least in the presence of mountains. For all of us, mountains turn into images after a short time and the images turn true. Gold-tossed waves change into the purple backs of monsters, and so forth. Always something out of the moving deep, and nearly always oceanic. Never a lake, never the sky. But no matter what images I began with, when I watched long enough the mountains turned into dreams, and still do, and it works the other way around - often, waking from dreams, I know I have been in the mountains, and I know they have been moving - sometimes advancing threateningly, sometimes creeping hesitantly, sometimes receding endlessly. Both mountains and dreams.
Name the author?
Dale
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Oct 19, 2013 - 09:37am PT
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there's no indication like the second kick of a mule
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
Potemkin Village
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Oct 19, 2013 - 10:40am PT
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“There is no education in the second kick of a mule.” Ernest Hollings
.....
perswig,
Still, it is proper when young to strive for gigantic perfection that doesn't make sense...
Thanks.
P.S. Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It
(It's the google age, lol!)
A retired English professor who began writing fiction at the age of 70.
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pud
climber
Sportbikeville & Yucca brevifolia
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Oct 19, 2013 - 10:45am PT
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When someone yells "duck" do it, then ask why - me
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weezy
climber
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Oct 19, 2013 - 11:08am PT
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you don't lose your girlfriend, you just lose your turn.
Ah, life in a small town. At least the weather is splitter.
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TWP
Trad climber
Mancos, CO
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Oct 19, 2013 - 11:47am PT
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Don't believe everything you think.
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 19, 2013 - 11:52am PT
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'un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire.'
Boileau
A fool always finds a bigger fool to admire.
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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Oct 19, 2013 - 12:59pm PT
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Old school...
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts, therefore guard accordingly; and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue, and reasonable nature.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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