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Gunkie

Trad climber
Valles Marineris
Oct 25, 2017 - 06:34am PT
May have been posted previously, but one of my favorite lines/quotes from a movie, climbing related or not...

Anderl Meier: You're very good. I have really enjoyed climbing with you.
Dr. Jonathan Hemlock: We'll make it.
Anderl Meier: I don't think so. But we shall continue with style.
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Oct 27, 2017 - 09:12am PT
"It’s all about the intensity. Birdwatching is also intense,
if a little less physical and dangerous."
-Reilly Moss, daredevil extraordinaire
rockermike

Trad climber
Berkeley
Topic Author's Reply - Oct 28, 2017 - 06:04am PT

Don't know where/who its from, but pretty good...
Gary

Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
Nov 1, 2017 - 08:16am PT
Climbers can understand this, no?

"Ask not ('tis forbidden knowledge), what our destined term of years,
Mine and yours; nor scan the tables of your Babylonish seers.
Better far to bear the future, my Leuconoe, like the past,
Whether Jove has many winters yet to give, or this our last;
This, that makes the Tyrrhene billows spend their strength against the shore.
Strain your wine and prove your wisdom; life is short; should hope be more?
In the moment of our talking, envious time has ebb'd away.
Seize the present; trust tomorrow e'en as little as you may." -- Horace
Don'tKnowHim

Social climber
California
Nov 1, 2017 - 12:59pm PT
"Ph'nglui mglw'nfah Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!"

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MjLk2Ie9aU]
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Nov 2, 2017 - 11:18am PT
"My only unattractive quality is my bad judgement in free-time activities."
--Hank Caylor
Gary

Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
Nov 3, 2017 - 12:20pm PT
"As long as I live under the capitalistic system, I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people. But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp.

This, sir, is my resignation." -- William Faulkner resigning from his job as postmaster at Ole Miss.
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Nov 26, 2017 - 06:28pm PT
"If this is who we are or who we are becoming, I have wasted 40 years of my life. Until now it was not possible for me to conceive of an American President capable of such an outrageous assault on truth, a free press or the first amendment."

Michael Hayden,

Four-star general
Director of the National Security Agency
Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence
Director of the Central Intelligence Agency


In response to...
"@FoxNews is MUCH more important in the United States than CNN, but outside of the U.S., CNN International is still a major source of (Fake) news, and they represent our Nation to the WORLD very poorly. The outside world does not see the truth from them!" Trump tweet 25 nov 2017
guido

Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
Nov 26, 2017 - 06:41pm PT
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Nov 26, 2017 - 07:00pm PT
“One of the most powerful forces in history is human stupidity."

Yuval Harari

Sapiens
Homo Deus
High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Nov 27, 2017 - 09:17am PT
"All I want for Christmas is for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to invite the Obamas to the royal wedding and not the trumps." -Imani

lol
rockermike

Trad climber
Berkeley
Topic Author's Reply - Dec 1, 2017 - 08:28am PT
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Dec 19, 2017 - 10:24pm PT
The great thing about ST is that the collective memory is better than any individual's.
--Jan
Dr Lefttoe

Gym climber
Dec 19, 2017 - 10:36pm PT
No man should be so poor that he need sit on a pumpkin. -HDT
Ken M

Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
Dec 19, 2017 - 10:56pm PT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yylz3pHE5Vc
divad

Trad climber
wmass
Dec 20, 2017 - 05:09am PT
"If we can't sell this to the American people, we're in the wrong business."

Mitch McConnell
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
Dec 20, 2017 - 05:40am PT





After the 1865 accident on the Matterhorn,
Queen Victoria considered banning British subjects from participating in mountain climbing,
To wit, Edward Whymper penned the following:



"Climb if you will but remember that courage and strength are naught without prudence,
and that a momentary negligence may destroy the happiness of a lifetime.

Do nothing in haste,

look well to each step,

and from the beginning think what might be the end."

High Fructose Corn Spirit

Gym climber
Dec 31, 2017 - 09:43am PT
“We are proud that Telegram is used by thousands of massive opposition channels all over the world. We consider freedom of speech an undeniable human right, and would rather get blocked in a country by its authorities than limit peaceful expression of alternative opinions.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/31/world/middleeast/iran-protests.html?mtrref=news.google.com

http://t.me/durov/69

...

"Waiting for the Western #RegressiveLeft and their conservative Muslim allies to arrange a #TakeOffYourHijab day in #Solidarity with the #IranProtests just as they organised a #WorldHijabDay" -Maajid Nawaz

rockermike

Trad climber
Berkeley
Topic Author's Reply - Jan 20, 2018 - 06:35am PT
A few hours mountain climbing turns a rogue and a saint into two roughly equal creatures. Weariness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity—and liberty is finally added by sleep. —Nietzsche

TWP

Trad climber
Mancos, CO & Bend, OR
Feb 11, 2018 - 10:47am PT
Great Source of Quotes:

The Analects of Confucius

http://www.acmuller.net/con-dao/analects.html

For example:

"[1:16] The Master said: I am not bothered by the fact that I am unknown. I am bothered when I do not know others.”
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