"You have to remember something: Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn."
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"Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy."
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"Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there. Make motivation a habit and you will get there more quickly and have more fun on the trip."
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"Don't assume that what we currently think is out there is the full story. Go after the dark matter, in whatever field you choose to explore."
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"Humans in the developed world spend more than 90 percent of their lives indoors, where they breathe in and come into contact with trillions of life forms invisible to the naked eye: microorganisms."
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"What keeps me going is goals."
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"The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble."
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"The best activities for your health are pumping and humping."
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"Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked."
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"The More we value things, the less we value ourselves"
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"Work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls - family, health, friends, integrity - are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered."
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"I knew that if I failed I wouldn't regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying."
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"Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind."
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"Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too."
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"Physics is a good framework for thinking. ... Boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there."
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"Real living is living for others."
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"Sometimes we complain, but there is something beautiful about waking up before everyone to get better at what we love."
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"He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money."
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"The strongest climbers aren’t always the happiest or nicest to be around; neither are some of them coming from the purest motivation. Climbing another V17 is not going to save the world! This activity of 'rock climbing' is merely one of many ways to exist, pass the time, and evolve and grow from one moment to the next. That’s all."
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"There will be those who will tell you that you can't make it because of how you look, because of the way you talk. We all have heard that - I almost listened."
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