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ShawnInPaso
climber
Paso Robles, CA
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Dec 10, 2018 - 09:28pm PT
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"Chance only favors the mind which is prepared." - Louis Pasteur 1854
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Robert Yoho
Social climber
Los Angeles,ca
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Dec 10, 2018 - 10:49pm PT
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The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend Cicero
One man after burying another has been laid out dead, and another buries him; and all this in a short time. Hippocrates after curing many diseases himself fell sick and died.. and lice killed Socrates... What means all this? ...All human things are smoke, and nothing at all; and it is not for us, but for the gods, to settle whether we play the play out, or only a part of it. Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and tend thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew. ... Do not act as if thou wert going to live 10,000 years. While thou can, while you are able, be good. Aurelius Meditations
Bad luck borne nobly is good luck. Aurelius
Burn the bridge. Nuke the foundation. Back yourself up against a wall. Have an opinion one way or the other, get off the fence and rip it up. Cut yourself off so there is no going back. Once you're committed the truth will come out. You ask about security? What you need is uncertainty. What you need is confusion; something that forces you to reinvent yourself, a whip to drive you harder Twight
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Robert Yoho
Social climber
Los Angeles,ca
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Dec 10, 2018 - 10:52pm PT
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Alvarez feeding the rat
The truth is I like an unforgiving climate where if you make mistakes you suffer for it. thats what turns me on.... but every year you need to flush out your system and do a bit of suffering. it does you a power of good. i think its because there is always a question mark about how you woud perform. you have an idea of yourself and... if you just toodle along you can think youre a pretty slick bloke until things go wrong... thats why I like feeding the rat. its a sort of annual check up...the rat is you really. Its the other you and its being fed by the you that you think you are. and they are often very different people. but when they come close to each other, thats smashing, that is. then the rats had a good meal and you come away feeling terrific. its a fairly rare thing but you have to keep feeding the brute just for your own peace of mind. and even if you blow it at least there wouldnt be that great unknown. but to snuff it without knowing who you are and what you are would be a shame.
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Robert Yoho
Social climber
Los Angeles,ca
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Dec 10, 2018 - 10:54pm PT
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until one is committed there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back. Always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of inanition (and action) there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely comitts oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would otherwise have never occurred. A whole stream of events issue from the decision raising in one's favor all manner of unforseen incidents and meetings which no man could have dremt would have come his way. WN Murray Scottish Himilayan expedition 1951
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Dec 16, 2018 - 06:46am PT
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“First they came for the journalists,” said the young man’s sign. “We don’t know what happened after that.”
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Aeriq
Sport climber
100-year Visitor
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"For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love"
--Carl Sagan
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Jan 19, 2019 - 04:27pm PT
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"You've got to give squares to get squares." -- Bobby Fischer
Ain't it the truth!
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capseeboy
Social climber
portland, oregon
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Jan 19, 2019 - 05:59pm PT
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Beauty is wasted on youth, wisdom on the old--Gnomie
You don't know an insult until you have a son-in-law--Gnomie
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divad
Trad climber
wmass
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Jan 23, 2019 - 10:09am PT
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The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it,
ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
- Winston Churchill
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norm larson
climber
wilson, wyoming
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Jan 23, 2019 - 03:38pm PT
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Those that mind don't matter.
Those that matter don't mind.
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Aeriq
Sport climber
100-year Visitor
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Feb 12, 2019 - 11:37pm PT
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Bump for a great thread!
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Nic
Trad climber
Cornwall
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Feb 15, 2019 - 04:14am PT
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Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom’s. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are greater than your own.” Nelson Algren, A Walk on the Wild Side (1956).
Plus for good measure: "Never pat a burning dog" Ronnie Scott
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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Feb 24, 2019 - 11:58am PT
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"Beware the quiet man. For while others speak, he watches. And while others act, he plans. And when they finally rest... he strikes." -Anonymous
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Feb 24, 2019 - 12:01pm PT
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“What we have here is a failure to communicate “ - Cool Hand Luke
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perswig
climber
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Feb 24, 2019 - 02:00pm PT
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"If the Truth is already clear, what is the use of meditation?
And if the Truth is hidden, it is already clear..." ... Saraha
Dale
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Feb 24, 2019 - 02:55pm PT
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"Some men you just can't reach" -- The Captain
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Delhi Dog
climber
Good Question...
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Feb 25, 2019 - 02:07am PT
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“Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”
-Malcolm Forbes
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apogee
climber
Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
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"I don’t remember where I first heard this simple description of one dramatic contrast between the genders, but it is strikingly accurate: At core, men are afraid women will laugh at them, while at core, women are afraid men will kill them."
Likely source: Margaret Atwood
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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“There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer.
There never has been an answer. That's the answer.”
Gertrude Stein
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Mar 17, 2019 - 08:54pm PT
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"the last time the president suffered a rebuke like this, the electoral college voted him into office"
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