"O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts!"
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"Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing."
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"It's the maritime equivalent of rock climbing."
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"I had a bad knee injury when I was about seventeen. I wasn't able to climb for about six months. It was kind of like a transformative time for me, because it was really hard for me not to be able to climb. It forced me to appreciate things without just climbing."
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"Climbing is this lifestyle activity that really works every muscle in your body."
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"In particular, with climbing, we're climbing on these surfaces that Mother Nature has created. We search out the most perfect pieces of rock. It's so amazing that these formations are so perfect for climbing on. It's almost as if they were created for climbing."
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"I've been climbing for almost twenty years now. I'm more inspired and more motivated. I feel stronger than I ever have. I feel like that's worked up until now."
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"Theories are like a stairway; by climbing, science widens its horizon more and more, because theories embody and necessarily include proportionately more facts as they advance."
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"Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain and gaining new and wider views."
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"The greatest and most inspiring mountain climbing achievements in history are not so much stories of individual achievement, but are stories of the extraordinary power of a unified, talented, prepared team that stays loyally committed to one another and to their shared vision to the end."
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"Humans had spent thousands of years climbing out of caves and building technology so they could reach the moon and live in caves again."
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"The secret of this kind of climbing, is like Zen. Don't think. Just dance along. It's the easiest thing in the world, actually easier than walking on flat ground which is monotonous. The cute little problems present themselves at each step and yet you don't hesitate and you find yourself on some other boulder you picked out for no special reason at all, just like zen.~ Japhy"
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"Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start with Mount Everest. So if you're starting fantasy, don't start with a nine-book series."
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"In my childhood I led the life of a sage, when I grew up I started climbing trees"
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"My rhyming skills got you climbing hills, I'll travel through your mind into your spine like siren drills."
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"I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree."
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"Don't point your finger to the heights your children should go. Start climbing and they will follow."
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"If you don't set your goals based upon your Mission Statement, you may be climbing the ladder of success only to realize, when you get to the top, you're on the WRONG building."
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"In the mountains of wisdom no climbing is in vain."
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"If the reason for climbing Mt. Everest is that it's hard to do, why does everyone go up the easy side?"
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