"No matter what the odds, a man does not pin his last hope for survival on something and then expect that it will fail."

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Source : Alfred Lansing (2014). “Endurance”, p.247, Perseus Books Group

Alfred Lansing

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“I can pretty much take care of myself; I don't walk around with much fear.”
“Worry is nothing less than the misuse of your imagination”
“If you're having difficulty coming up with new ideas, then slow down. For me, slowing down has been a tremendous source of creativity. It has allowed me to open up -- to know that there's life under the earth and that I have to let it come through me in a new way. Creativity exists in the present moment. You can't find it anywhere else.”
“To progress is always to begin always to begin again”
“Werewolf is a simple game for a large group of people (seven or more.) It requires no equipment besides some bits of paper; you can play it just sitting in a circle. Iâ€™d call it a party game, except that itâ€™s a game of accusations, lying, bluffing, second-guessing, assassination, and mob hysteria.”
“I'm young. I'm pretty. And I'm willing to burn the whole world to the ground to get what I want.”
“We now have a political process, we've had a period of parties that have been fighting each other quite literally with bombs and bullets, talking to each other, and having sat together in the assembly and sharing government with each other.”
“There are infinitely many variations of the initial situation and therefore no doubt indefinitely many theorems of moral geometry.”

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