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Soloing is the most beautiful way of climbing; no material constrains, just you and the rock, the sun, nature; a kind of school for courage, willpower and self-confidence.
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I had a fantastic mother who taught me self-confidence.
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The determination and conviction to succeed can only come from within.
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Her imperturbable self-confidence (Duchesse de Maine) caused Madame de Stael to write that the Duchesse believed in herself the same way she believed in God, without explanation or discussion.
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The best way to help Burma is to empower the people of Burma, to help us have enough self-confidence to obtain what we want for ourselves.
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Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors.
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Over all, there are now more people under “correctional supervision†in America-more than six million-than were in the Gulag Archipelago under Stalin at its height.
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We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
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A lot of people have something to say about 'Wuthering Heights,' but nobody quite nails it.
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The height of foolishness is to discard an opportunity without full investigation
