"I was able to first snap the radius and then within another few minutes snap the ulna at the wrist and from there, I had the knife out and applied the tourniquet and went to task. It was a process that took about an hour."

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Source : "How I snapped bone and cut off my arm, by US climber" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. May 9, 2003.

Aron Ralston

#Knives Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Tasks Quotes

“I don't want to see blood spewing out but I don't mind it in controlled environment. Does it make me squeamish? No.”
“I feel like R&B as a genre has become a caricature of itself.”
“Character is too deep to catch in a single storyline. What really moves us - what makes the great stories, and there aren't so many of them - is the inevitability of character. The destiny. All we see is the arc. We'll never penetrate the secrets of the living, let alone the dead. I've spent my whole life trying to understand people, and all I've learned is that the deeper we look, the greater the mystery. At the core, each person is unknowable. Maybe that's the soul? I have to respect that. The mystery, in fact, is what I've loved the most, in people and in stories as well.”
“There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!”
“We humans can look deep into future and predict what will happen, but then turn around and do nothing about it.”
“Long before the empire had reached its greatest extent, the Romans were bored by it.”
“you can die of the wrong thought as quick as of a bullet.”
“The proper role of government is exactly what John Stuart Mill said in the middle of the nineteenth century in On Liberty. The proper role of government is to prevent other people from harming an individual. Government, he said, never has any right to interfere with an individual for that individual's own good.”

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