Robert Peary famous quotes
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Many times I have thanked God for a bite of raw dog.
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Nothing easier. One step beyond the pole, you see, and the north wind becomes a south one.
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The time to prepare for your next expedition is when you have just returned from a successful trip.
-- Robert Peary
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In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all and it often comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible except with time. You cannot now believe that you will ever feel better. But this is not true. You are sure to be happy again. Knowing this, truly believing it will make you less miserable now. I have had enough experience to make this statement.
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People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness.
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The true opposite of depression is not gaiety or absence of pain, but vitality: the freedom to experience spontaneous feelings.
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Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it. Seek out the memories depression takes away and project them into the future. Be brave; be strong; take your pills. Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds. Eat when food itself disgusts you. Reason with yourself when you have lost your reason.
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It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.
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I am officially Jewish, but I’m Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.
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The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.
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You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.
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War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.
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The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.
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