Douglas Mawson famous quotes
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We had discovered an accursed country. We had found the Home of the Blizzard.
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In no department can a leader spend time more profitably than in the selection of the men who are to accomplish the work.
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It's dead easy to die; it's the keeping on living that's hard.
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Dangling in space I realised I could always slip out of the harness. I looked forward to the peace of the great release.
-- Douglas Mawson
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Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.
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Even if my country remains in war with yours. . .remember. . . i am not your enemy.
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First birth is from your parents, but real birth, real life, begins when one accepts a bona fide spiritual master and renders service unto him. Then the path is open for going back to home, back to Godhead, to live eternally in full knowledge and full bliss and in association with the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself, Lord Krishna.
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Dim loneliness came imperceivably into the fields and he turned back. The birds piped oddly; some wind was caressing the higher foliage, turning it all one way, the way home. Telegraph poles ahead looked like half-used pencils; the small cross on the steeple glittered with a sharp and shapely permanence.
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I don't do office work at home.
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And unlike the rest of you, he hasn’t yet time to ruin his career or his mind." "Then he won’t do. Send him home. Get us another lunatic." "Excuse me!" [hopping up to stand in his seat] "Elassar Targon, master of the universe, reporting for duty!" "I withdraw my objection.
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In my search to find myself, I’d found so much more. I knew now why I wanted to live. I understood love. I had found it.
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When a hadeeth is found to be saheeh, then that is my madhhab.
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All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I'd got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.
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More and more, revolution has found itself delivered into the hands of its bureaucrats and doctrinaires on the one hand, and to the enfeebled and bewildered masses on the other.
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