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Edge
Trad climber
Betwixt and Between Nederland & Boulder, CO
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Feb 24, 2017 - 06:11pm PT
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"Discovery consists of seeing what everyone else has seen, and thinking what no one else has thought."
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perswig
climber
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Mar 19, 2017 - 01:08pm PT
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If in all things I consider only the heat and the cold, the food or the hunger, the sickness or labor, the beauty or pleasure, the success and failure or the material good or evil my works have won for my own will, I will find only emptiness and not happiness. I shall not be fed, I shall not be full. -- T. Merton
Dale
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Norton
Social climber
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Mar 19, 2017 - 01:18pm PT
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He is doing the best he can, with what the lord gave him to work with
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Lollie
Social climber
I'm Lolli.
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Apr 24, 2017 - 01:38pm PT
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“Sincerity - if you can fake that, you've got it made.”
#mybesttrick
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Apr 24, 2017 - 02:47pm PT
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"Tracing the right of property back to its source, one infallibly arrives at usurpation. However, theft is only punished because it violates the right of property; but this right is itself nothing in origin but theft." -- Cliven Bundy
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perswig
climber
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I've found that whiskey is a better misery beverage, although I tend to get less done towards solving my actual problem.
Dale
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WBraun
climber
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Why are you really on this planet? -- Duck
Supertopo forum members answer --- No one knows
Duck --- such a stoopid answer ....
:-)
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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"If you think about it, we were born in an amazing generation... Look at all these classics we can find on the Internet. There's a massive library of great songs right here on Youtube, and we can choose from whatever era we want to listen to. Pretty awesome." -Danny Dolan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDxhugRKZ8g
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Mark Force
Trad climber
Ashland, Oregon
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"Be kind whenever posssible. It is always possible."
~ Dalai Lama
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10b4me
Mountain climber
Retired
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These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph
Thomas Paine
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Larry Nelson
Social climber
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May 10, 2017 - 12:09pm PT
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"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts."
Richard Feynman
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divad
Trad climber
wmass
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May 10, 2017 - 02:11pm PT
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Promises, all lies and jest
Still, a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest
Paul Simon
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nita
Social climber
chica de chico, I don't claim to be a daisy.
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May 12, 2017 - 09:20am PT
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"The slow-rising central horror of ‘Watergate’ is not that it might grind down to the reluctant impeachment of a vengeful thug of a president whose entire political career has been a monument to the same kind of cheap shots and treachery he finally got nailed for, but that we might somehow fail to learn something from it.”
-Hunter S. Thompson, 1974
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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May 12, 2017 - 09:36am PT
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Johnny's dilemma is coping with a world that is changing in front of him. He doesn't know what to do, except to lose his temper, mouth his poisons, look elsewhere to fix the blame for his own discomfort. He isn't a totally evil man. He's shrewd. But he won't get to the root of his problem, because the root of his problem is himself, and he doesn't know it.
Well, and then Johnny voted for Trump...
... poor guy...
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splitter
Trad climber
HighwayToHell
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Jun 22, 2017 - 02:23pm PT
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If it's your last moment on earth, you outta get the most out of it. ~ Jeff Lowe
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Q- Ball
Mountain climber
but to scared to climb them anymore
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Jun 22, 2017 - 02:31pm PT
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"John Wayne never wore Lycra" comment from John long? At a climbing competition while wearing blue jeans.
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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Jul 26, 2017 - 10:09am PT
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" America, as in Australia, such a constant drumbeat of guilt changes a people’s natural feelings about their own past. It transforms feelings of patriotism into shame or at the very least into deeply mixed emotions, and troubling effects result from this. A country that believes it has never done any wrong is a country that could do wrong at any time. But a country that believes it has only done wrong, or done such a terrible, unalleviated amount of wrong in the past, is likely to become a country that is inclined to doubt its ability to ever do any good in the future. It makes a country nervous about itself whatever the wisdom of its actions. Embedding the idea of original sin in a nation is the best possible way to breed self-doubt. National original sin suggests you can do little by way of good because you were rotten from the start."
Bruce Murray
The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam
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clifff
Mountain climber
golden, rollin hills of California
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Jul 26, 2017 - 11:49am PT
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"The slow-rising central horror of ‘Watergate’ is not that it might grind down to the reluctant impeachment of a vengeful thug of a president whose entire political career has been a monument to the same kind of cheap shots and treachery he finally got nailed for, but that we might somehow fail to learn something from it.”
This is a total misconception. What brought Nixon down was not the bad things he was doing but all the very good things he was up to:
Endangered Species Act
Environmental Protection Agency
Clean Water Act
Clean Air Act
Earth Week
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Nation Environmental Policy Act
Mammal Marine Protection Act
Peace with China - He undid years of insane anti-communist propaganda in an instant.
The hydrophobic right wing oligarchy were horrified with what he was doing and wanted him out asap.
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