"Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised."

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Source : Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1937). “The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic 1910-1913”, p.5, Library of Alexandria

Apsley Cherry-Garrard

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“On a fading summer evening, late in the last hours of his old life, Peter Jaxon-son of Demetrius and Prudence Jaxon, First Family; descendent of Terrence Jaxon, signatory of the One Law; great-great-nephew of the one known as Auntie, Last of the First; Peter of Souls, the Man of Days and the One Who Stood-took his position on the catwalk above Main Gate, waiting to kill his brother.”

Source : Justin Cronin (2010). “The Passage: A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy)”, p.267, Ballantine Books
“I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq.”
“Thought's a luxury. Do you think the peasant sits and thinks of God and Democracy when he gets inside his mud hut at night?”
“I really am at a place where I think we need to feed every child at school for free and feed them a real school lunch that's sustainable and nutritious and delicious. It needs to be part of the curriculum of the school in the same way that physical education was part of the curriculum, and all children participated.”
“I only wore makeup when I went onstage.”
“In the world a man lives in his own age; in solitude in all ages.”

Source : William Mathews (1874). “The Great Conversers, and Other Essays”, p.50
“But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.”
“It was my first impulse, but I chose to play the priest as a true believer who was an absolute man of faith that absolutely supports the church.”

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