Tom Hornbein famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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But at times I wondered if I had not come a long way to find that what I really sought was something I had left behind.
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I soon learned that Everest wasn't a private affair. It belonged to many men.
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I wonder if one can view risk like a drug, beneficial to the organism in the proper dose. Too much or too little may be harmful...
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Just a rock, a dome of snow, the deep blue sky, and a hunk of orange-painted metal from which a shredded American flag cracked in the wind. Nothing more. Except two tiny figures walking together those last few feet to the top of the Earth.
-- Tom Hornbein
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Oh, Eeyore, you are wet!†said Piglet, feeling him. Eeyore shook himself, and asked somebody to explain to Piglet what happened when you had been inside a river for quite a long time.
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The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
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The Baptists' basic theology is that if you hold someone under water long enough, he'll come around to your way of thinking. It's a ritual known as 'Bobbing for Baptists.'
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A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.
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Autumn can be glorious but menacing too - the long shadows, brisk winds, scurrying leaves, impending frost.
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So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.
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To justify God's ways to man.
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I'm not an athiest. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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I'd rather be loud and misunderstood than quiet and bored
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What we tell students in formal schooling: “Sit down, stay quiet, and absorb. Do this for 12 to 16 years and all will be well.
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